Undergraduate Programs
Academic Resources
Chemistry AI Office Hours
Query the office hours for associate instructors (AI) for all chemistry courses. Students are free to attend the office hours of any AI who
is teaching a section of their course. AI's hold their office hours in the Chemistry Resources Center (room CH046, Chemistry Building).
Chemistry Tutors
The Undergraduate Office maintains a list of graduate students and exceptional undergraduate students who are willing to tutor chemistry
students. Meeting time and fee arrangements are strictly between the student and tutor.
Chemistry Tutors for High School Students
The Student Affiliates chapter of the American Chemical Society (SAACS) maintains a list of undergraduate students who are interested in tutoring high school students in chemistry, math and other science courses. Meeting times and fee arrangements are strictly between the student and tutor. Please contact tutors directly for availability.
CALM Homework System
The Computer Assisted Learning Method (CALM) is an online homework system created by an IU chemistry professor. It is currently used in our
100-level courses. In addition to providing homework, CALM also securely posts students' grades on quizzes, exams, lab reports, and other
assignments.
Chemistry Library
Our library features a Virtual Reference Room with online reference books such CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry, powerful search engines
including Scifinder Scholar, 100's of online journals, the Web Directory of Graduate Research, and links to the online catalog, IUCAT, for IU's
library system.
Chemical Information Services
CHEMINFO is designed to help people find and learn how to use chemical information resources on the Internet and elsewhere. It brings together
Web sites at Indiana University with significant chemical information content.
College of Arts & Sciences Definition of Plagiarism
Students are urged to consult this site, as it unites under one umbrella the best plagiarism web pages on our campus (and a few from beyond IU). In addition, it provides other useful relevant information,
e.g., citation guidelines from widely-utilized manuals of style; the Code of Student Rights,
Responsibilities, and Conduct, tips for faculty, and more. The website also provides helpful
advice for clarifying expectations regarding academic honesty integrity and for explaining
how to avoid plagiarism charges.
Department of Chemistry Definition of Plagiarism
This information is extremely important for all chemistry students to read and understand. If students have any questions about this information or about academic misconduct, the y should ask the their professors and/or consult the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct at http://www.dsa.indiana.edu/Code/ .
Student Academic Center (SAC)
SAC has a workshop series that continues throughout the fall and spring to help students with study skills, time management, improving reading
speed, stress management, oral presentation skills, supplemental instruction for some math courses, and individualized academic assessment
and assistance.
Academic Support Centers (ASC)
ASC offer a wide range of free services, including tutoring (for introductory chemistry and biology), UDIV advising, workshops, review
sessions and other academic support. There is an ASC in three conveniently location residence halls, Briscoe (North campus), Teter (Central),
and Forest (South-East).
Information Technology Training & Education
IT Training teaches many classes, most of them free to students, on the use of a variety of software including Access (databases), Excel
(spreadsheets), Word, Oncourse, web publishing, and more. There are also some online tutorials, mostly dealing with web publishing and using
e-mail.
Campus Writing Programs
Writing assistance is available through a few programs including the ASC's (see above) and the Writing Tutorial Services (WTS). WTS (pronounced
"wits") provides free individual tutoring to students working on writing projects for any of their courses (including writing laboratory
reports).
External Links to Academic Resources
Webelements
The first periodic table on the WWW, created by Mark Winter of WebElements Ltd and University of Sheffield, England. Here you will find many
pictures showing element structures and periodic properties and up-to-date information about new elements. (Note the cool image the author
made using his name).
Orbitron—Molecular Orbitals on the Web
Created by the author of Webelements (see above) this site features a gallery of atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals, animated plots of wave
functions and electron density, "Dot-density" plots of electron density, and plots of radial distribution functions.
Chemical & Engineering News
C&EN Online is a weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) full of chemistry new from all over the world. It is
available free to all ACS members. Access to some articles on this site requires a member number. To become a member go to
https://center.acs.org/applications/acsmembership.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
under the Standard Reference Data Program.
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