The theme for this year’s National Chemistry Week is “The Many Faces of Chemistry”. In support of this theme, Erica Jacobsen and Betty Moore coordinated the series of career profiles of chemists on pages 1564, 1567, 1569, 1572, 1574, 1575, 1576, 1578, 1579, 1581, 1582, 1583, and 1585. The diversity of careers described there as […]

Next Monday marks the 20th anniversary of National Chemistry Week, and the Niles High School Chemistry Club has been getting ready by blowing stuff up.  “We ignited balloons filled with hydrogen, oxygen, and a mixture to see the differences in noise and force,” says Ami LeFevre, a biology/chemistry teacher and faculty advisor to the club.  […]