Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society Selects George M. Bodner for the James Flack Norris Award Recipient for 2010

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) is pleased to announce that Professor George M. Bodner has been selected to receive the 2010 James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry. Professor Bodner is the Arthur E. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Education at Purdue University. He previously received both the Chemical Manufacturers Association Catalyst Award in Chemical Education and the American Chemical Society Pimentel Award in Chemical Education among many other awards. Professor Bodner played a catalytic role for incorporation of constructivist methods into chemical education and created the graduate program in chemical education at Purdue University. The Award will be formally presented to Professor Bodner at the November 11 meeting of the Northeastern Section to be held at Tufts University. Following the presentation of the award, Professor Bodner will give a talk entitled, “I'm Finally Beginning to Understand Why I Didn't Understand ...”

“I'm Finally Beginning to Understand Why I Didn't Understand ...”

The Norris Award Meeting is open to the public, and reservations for the Norris Award dinner can be made by the customary process. Information on the award meeting and the dinner can be found in the forthcoming November issue of The Nucleus and on the NESACS website, www.nesacs.org.

The American Chemical Society ― with more than 161,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

The Northeastern Section of the ACS— with nearly 7000 members, sponsors a number of awards, travel grants and scholarships to honor professional chemists. NESACS holds more than ten meetings per year, open to the public, around the Boston area.

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