Wilmer Stratton, Lucy Pryde Eubanks, Catherine Middlecamp, Conrad Stanitski, Terri Nally, and Christine Brennan

Conrad Stanitski is Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair at the University of Central Arkansas. He received his B.S. in Science Education from Bloomsburg State College, M.A. in Chemical Education from the University of Northern Iowa, and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Connecticut. As a chemical educator his career spans high school to graduate school teaching; he has taught in a two-year college, four-year private liberal arts colleges, and at public universities.

Stanitski has been active in the ACS. He previously served on the ACS Exams Institute's Chemistry in Context Committee, and he currently serves on the ACS Society Committee on Education (SOCED). He is a Councilor for the Division of Chemical Education, Inc. (DivCHED), an ACS College Chemistry Consultants Service consultant, an ACS Career Consultant, and a DivCHED Finance Committee member. He has directed numerous ChemCom workshops, is an NSF proposal reviewer, a member of the Chemical Heritage Foundation Education Advisory Board, a national Chautauqua course instructor, Project Kaleidoscope lecturer, and has received several major NSF grants in science and chemical education.

An active writer, Stanitski has co-authored chemistry textbooks for a wide variety of students: general chemistry -- Chemical Principles and The Chemical World: Concepts and Applications 2ed; allied-health science students -- Chemistry for Health-Related Sciences: Concepts and Correlations; and nonscience majors -- Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, an ACS-sponsored project. He is editor of the Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom) third edition textbook, an ACS high school chemistry text.

Catherine Middlecamp is the Director of the Chemistry Learning Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaches both general chemistry for liberal arts students and a graduate seminar entitled "The Teaching of Chemistry." She did her undergraduate studies at Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and earned her doctorate degree in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a masters degree in the School of Education.

Over the past 20 years, she has designed, supervised and taught in a number of programs for students under-represented in the sciences, both collegiate and pre-collegiate. She is co-author of the book, How to Survive and Even Excel in General Chemistry, and has contributed chapters to several books on women in science.  In 1998, she was elected a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy.

Currently she is a national advisory board member for the Women and Scientific Literacy at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the task force co-leaderf for Women and Diversity at Project Kaleidoscope, and a national advisor for Montana's Rural Women and Girls in Science Project. She is the editor of a discovery-based laboratory project on the Web, based in Puerto Rico, and serves as a member of the Program Committee for the ACS Division of Chemical Education, Inc.

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Lucy T. Pryde Eubanks is a Lecturer in Chemistry at Clemson University (SC) and serves as the Associate Director of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Education Examinations Institute. She received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Mount Holyoke College and a MA and MSNS degree from Seattle University. She has taught at Southwestern College (CA), Grossmont College (CA), and Mesa College (CA), as well as several high schools.

Eubanks is active in the ACS, serving as chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Education, Inc. (DivCHED) in 1992, and as vice-chair of the program committee and member of organizing committee for the 14th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. In addition, her service to DivCHED includes: chair of Personnel and Nominations Committee and chair of the Program Committee. Presently she serves as the DivCHED liaison to ACS Divisional Officers Group. She is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Center for Science in the Public Interest, National Science Teachers Association, South Carolina Association of Chemistry Teachers, South Carolina Science Council, and South Carolina Science Supervisors Association.

Eubanks’ honors and awards include Visiting Scientist of the Year (1993) , ACS Western Connecticut Section; Southwestern College Award, "Woman of Distinction," 1985; and National CATALYST Award for Excellence in Community College Chemistry Teaching, Chemical Manufacturers Association, 1984.

Wilmer Stratton received an A. B. degree in chemistry from Earlham College (IN) in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from the Ohio State University in 1958. From 1959 to 1997 he was on the faculty of Earlham College, a position from which he retired in 1997. His teaching interests included analytical, inorganic, and physical chemistry. He was also one of the early pioneers in teaching environmental chemistry courses, a subject he taught regularly for over 20 years. His research interests have been in the general areas of inorganic, analytical, and environmental chemistry. For a number of years, he and his students did research on new metal coordination compounds. For the last 15 years he has been primarily interested in environmental studies of various kinds. His current interest is mercury in the environment, especially atmospheric studies of mercury speciation, an area in which he is one of the national experts.

Stratton has had a long interest in curricular innovation in chemistry, including development of new laboratory experiments. He has published extensively and has given many talks at national and regional meetings. He was a member of the original writing team for ACS’s Chemistry in Context. For the second edition of Chemistry in Context, he was the lead author for the accompanying Laboratory Manual. For the upcoming third edition, he again has responsibility for the Laboratory Manual as well as serving as a member of the editorial team for the text.

Terri Nally has been working in the education arena for 25 years. Currently she heads the American Chemical Society Higher Education Department. This department handles diverse issues and programs including curriculum development, experiential education, student pre-professional development and leadership, graduate education, chemistry-based technician education, academe-industry alliance development, college chemistry consultants, minorities in science, and articulation. Nally served as the project manager for the first two editions of Chemistry in Context.

Christine Brennan is the American Chemical Society senior staff associate working on the third edition of Chemistry in Context. She has worked at the ACS in the Division of Education and International Affairs for six years, of which five years were spent coordinating Project SEED and the Chemistry Olympiad programs, both summer programs for high school students. She has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from North Carolina State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Northwestern University. She served as an adjunct instructor at Towson University in Baltimore, MD from 1993-1994.

In addition to Chemistry in Context 3/e, Brennan coordinates the development of the new ACS general chemistry curriculum. She recently organized the ACS Society Committee on Education Graduate Education Invitational Conference and the ACS/EPA Cooperative Green Chemistry Invitational Conference.

The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit scientific and educational association of professionals in the chemical sciences. Founded in 1876 and chartered by Congress in the public interest, the Society is the largest scientific society, with more than 155,000 members worldwide.

ACS activities range from the publication of numerous books, journals, and magazines to the presentation of prestigious grants and award; from the sponsorship of some 1800 local, regional, divisional, and national meetings, to the provision of educational services; and from the establishment of professional employment standards to the public information service that keeps the public and media current on chemical information.

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