ISBN 10: 0495560294 ISBN 13: 9780495560296

Verlag: Cengage Learning, 2008

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About the Author:

Beatrice Botch is the Director of General Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in Chemistry from Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois, and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Michigan State University. She completed her graduate work at Argonne National Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Thom Dunning Jr., and was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology working in the group of Professor William A. Goddard III. She taught at Southwest State University in Minnesota and Wittenberg University in Ohio before joining the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 1988. She received the UMass College of Natural Science and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award in 1999. She is one of the inventors of OWL, and she authored questions in OWL for General Chemistry. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on a number of grants and contracts related to OWL development and dissemination, and continues to develop learning materials in OWL to help students succeed in chemistry.

Roberta O. Day received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY in 1962, spent 5 years in the research laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, and then received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971. After postdoctoral work sponsored by both the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund and the National Institutes of Health, she joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is now a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry. She initiated the use of on-line electronic homework in general chemistry at UMass, is one of the inventors of the OWL system, has been either PI or Co-I for several major national grants for the development of OWL, and has authored a large percentage of the questions in the OWL data base for General Chemistry. She won the American Chemical Society Connecticut Valley Section Award for outstanding contributions to chemistry in 1990, and the College of Natural Science and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award in 1997. Her research in chemistry as an X-ray crystallographer has resulted in the publication of over 180 articles in professional journals.