Chemistry Day Schedule
UNL Chemistry Day Saturday, October 11, 2008 |
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| 9:00-9:40 am | Registration, Tours of Hamilton Hall | |
| Building Tours begin every 5 minutes. You will visit the Resource Center, Undergraduate Instrumentation Center, and Undergraduate Lounge. You can also spend some time in the lobby visiting the exhibits. | ||
| 9:40-10:45 am | Tours of Research Labs | |
| You can choose three professor's labs that you want to visit. Each visit will last 15 minutes during which the professor will tell about the research taking place in the lab. There will be 5 minutes to walk from one lab to the next. | ||
| 11:00 am | UNL Chemistry Major Program Overview | |
| Experimental Demonstration, careers and your chemistry degree(s), BS & BA Chemistry Program Requirements, Independent Research for BS majors, Scholarship Program | ||
| 12:00 pm | Students: Lunch & T-Shirt Chromatography | |
| The noon hour will be separated into two sections. One part will be a free lunch catered by Valentino's Pizza served in the Chemistry Resource Center and then a hands-on activity of T-Shirt Chromatography where you will receive a free T-shirt to decorate. | ||
| Teachers: Teacher's Roundtable | ||
| While eating lunch with other teachers, you'll learn lively and unique demonstrations that you can do at your high school. A handout will tell you how to do them. There will be a drawing for one class to receive a visit from Dr. Kautz. | ||
| 1:00 pm | Chemical Apparatus in the Movies: Eating and Drinking in the Lab, Saturday Morning Serials, and Chemical Campus Comedies | |
In this presentation, Prof. Mark Griep will show clips from about 15 movies that feature the chemical elements. |
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| 2:00 pm | Scholarships, Prizes, & Answers | |
| Find out who won the Chemistry Department Scholarships and other prizes at this session. There will also be an opportunity to answer any remaining questions. | ||
| 2:30 pm | Tours of UNL Campus (optional) | |
