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Continuing Education
Committee
Bryan M. Craven
Chemistry Dept., Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania., Indiana, PA
15705 (Formerly Crystallography Dept. at Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Education: PhD in Chemistry from the Univ. of
New Zealand (57)
Profesional Activities: Past-President ACA, past-chair
of Small Molecule and Neutron Scattering SIGs, current chair
of the General Interest Group., co-organiser and lecturer for
the ACA Summer Course in Crystallography, Past Co-editor Acta
Cryst.
Research Interests: Charge density, thermal vbrations,
neturon diffraction, lipids, nucleic acids.
Statement: If elected, I will push for a Workshop
on Teaching Crystallography. Experienced teachers will present
materials and strategies to assist ACA members in their own efforts
in teaching crystallography. We should all be well prepared to
promote crystallography, whether in visits to high schools, or
to groups of lay people. Among us are college and Univ. teachers
who must light the way for those few students who might become
crystallographers and for many other students who need to understand
why crystallography is so important for science. The proposed
workshop should help us achieve these goals.
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Continuing Education Committee
Margaret Kastner
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg,
PA
Education: BS in Education (72) Indiana Univ. at
South Bend, Ph.D. (79) in Chemistry, Univ. of Notre Dame.
Professional Activities: Chair of the Susquehanna
Valley Section of the American Chemical Society (93) General
Chair of the 13th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (94)
Member of the US National Committee for Crystallography (94-96)
Research Interests: Structure of transition metal
complexes and development of Crystallographic CourseWare.
Statement: The primary concern of the Continuing
Education Committee has rightly been the enrichment and development
of the membership itself. My primary concern in "continuing
education" is thus atypical. As I age and watch the retirement
and passing of so many of those who have brought crystallography
to its current stage of development, I worry about the status
of the "continuing" of crystallographic "education".
As the teaching of crystallography moves from the formal full
courses taught by traditional faculty members to less formal
short-courses or hands-on training sessions taught by instrument
vendors or staff crystallo-graphers there will be a change in
the knowledge base of the next generation of crystallographers.
The clock will never turn back and models of teaching that were
successful in the past will not be available in the future. How
do we respond to the new realities?
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