Describes the mobile spectrosocopy laboratory program operated by the Department of Chemistry, University of Arkansas, which gives small college chemistry departments access to high cost spectrographic instruments mounted in a mobile van. (SL)

Reports that total research and development (R&D) spending for the United States is expected to reach $40.8 billion in 1977, up 9 percent from 1976, according to National Science Foundation (NSF) figures. Employment opportunities for scientists and engineers should be improving. (SL)

Reviews jobs for chemists outside the laboratory, including production, sales, management, market research, patent law, personnel, public relations, science writing, and library science. (SL)

The authors give directions for comparing the rates of zero and first order chemical reactions to the rate of flowing water in simple physical systems. They also show how to compare chemical equilibrium to the level of water in a u-shaped tube. (AJ)

Presents a consistent approach to the introduction of the mole in teaching kinetic theory and thermodynamics of ideal and real gases. (SL)

Describes the chemical engineering program at Brigham Young University. (SL)

Discusses the international symposium on chemical education held in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, August, 1977. Included are the symposium's recommendations for future international action relating to the problems and needs of chemical education. (SL)

Proposes a simple solution to the problem of expressing graphically absolute configuration, racemic character, and relative configuration in molecules. As demonstrated by several examples, the proposed convention brings added clarity and simplicity to structural drawings and renders graphic displays of chiral molecules as explicit and information…

The environmental chemistry program at Vassar College consists of undergraduate- and graduate-level coursework in environmental chemistry, a research program, and a program of involvement with environmental problems in the Mid-Hudson area. Various aspects of this interdisciplinary, integrated program are discussed. (JN)

A proposed course featuring the teaching of chemistry to nonscience majors in the context of detective fiction is described. (MSE)

Describes curriculum development in West German information science programs that integrates subject specialty knowledge with information science and technology. An overview of the West German educational system is given and a program with subject specialties in chemistry and electrical engineering at the Fachhochschule Darmstadt is explained.…

Discusses some of the new physical dating methods being used by archaeologists and paleoanthropologists to study the material remains of ancient primates. Describes the quaternary physical dating techniques, advances in radiocarbon dating, and the radiocalcium data method. (TW)

Shows how the thermodynamic condition for equilibrium in an isolated system can be derived by the application of Boltzmann's law to a simple physical system. States that this derivation could be included in an introductory course on chemical equilibrium to help prepare students for a statistical mechanical treatment presented in the curriculum.…

This discussion uses a more difficult reaction as the prototype to derive the standard equation for chemical equilibrium. It can be used by students who can understand and use partial derivatives. (CW)

Describes a program at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis with two distinctive features: a parallel work-study format and integration of a conventional Master of Science academic component of coursework and research with work experience. Discusses student characteristics, placement, and response to the program. (CW)