News & Notices

Organizations & People

At the General Assembly in Berlin, Prof. Joshua Jortner (then IUPAC President) assumed responsibility for organizing this effort and was able to recruit as Chairman of the ESDC Prof. Peter W. Atkins, who is internationally known in the field of chemical education.

Charge to the ESDC

One of the Union's long-range goals states: "IUPAC will utilize its global perspective to contribute toward the enhancement of education in chemistry and to advance the public understanding of chemistry and the scientific method." The ad hoc IUPAC Education Strategy Development Committee (ESDC) has been established by the Bureau to provide advice on the ways by which IUPAC should work toward this goal.
The ESDC is charged to:

• Review IUPAC's current and immediately planned activities in the field of chemical education, including programs of the Committee on Teaching of Chemistry, the other Operational Committees, and the scientific Divisions.
• Recommend areas in which IUPAC should and realistically can make meaningful contributions toward worldwide chemical education. Provide advice as to areas in which IUPAC should not be involved.
• Recommend ways by which IUPAC can realistically contribute toward the public understanding of chemistry and the scientific method.
• Recommend any organizational and/or operational changes within IUPAC to facilitate the implementation of the recommendations proposed by the Committee.
• Report to the Bureau by 31 August 2000 - preferably a final report if feasible, or an interim report otherwise with a final report to follow.

  Committee Membership

Peter W. Atkins (Chairman) (UK)
	<peter.atkins@lincoln.ox.ac.uk>
Berhanu Abegaz (Botswana)
	<ABEGAZB@mopipi.ub.bw>
D. Balasubramanian (India)
	<dbala@lvpeye.stph.net>
John Bradley (South Africa)
	<bradley@aurum.chem.wits.ac.za>
Norman Craig (USA)
	<Norm.Craig@oberlin.edu>
Antonio Monge-Vega (Spain)
	<cifa@unav.es>
Julio de Paula (USA/Brazil)
	<jdepaula@haverford.edu>
Judith Poe (Canada)
	<jpoe@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
Kip Powell (New Zealand)
	<K.Powell@chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
Leiv Sydnes (Norway)
	<Leiv.Sydnes@kj.uib.no>
Natalia Tarasova (Russia)
	<tarasova@glas.apc.org>
Fabienne Meyers (IUPAC Secretariat)
	<fabienne@iupac.org>

 

This committee held its first meeting on 20-21 February 2000.

> Please read the Chairman note -Strategy for Educational Policy- and please e-mail your comments and suggestions at <fabienne@iupac.org>

Page last modified 31 March 2000.
Copyright ©1997-2000 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Questions or comments about IUPAC, please contact, the Secretariat.
Questions regarding the website, please contact Web Help.