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Taking the fear factor out of General Chemistry

Professor and Chemistry Department Chair Mark Cracolice is used to doling out homework, but in the last few years he’s given himself a serious assignment: to restore the good name of General Chemistry. “First year chemistry is pretty famous across the country as being difficult for a lot of students,” says Cracolice. Tackled in fear by many, General Chemistry is a year-long course composed of both lab time and lectures that wasn’t producing the results Cracolice was hoping for: good grades and an interest in—not fear of—chemistry.

To that end Cracolice received a grant in 1997 from the National Read More...