18th BCCE Plenary and Keynote Speakers
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Plenary Speaker 7:30 p.m. Dr. Firouz Naderi
Director of Solar System Exploration Programs
and Manager of the Mars Exploration Program
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
C.Y. Stephens Auditorium “Six Intense Minutes and a Lifetime of
Memories
The Landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers”
Monday, July 19, 2004
Plenary Speaker 8:00 a.m. Dr. John Gilbert
Institute of Education
University of Reading, UK
Editor, International Journal of Science Education
C.Y. Stephens Auditorium, “Models and Modeling in Chemical Education”
Keynote Speaker 4:00 p.m. Dr. George Boggs
President and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges
Scheman Building, Benton Auditorium, “How Policy and Practice Influence
Student
Learning”
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Plenary Speaker 8:00 a.m. Dr. Charles Casey
Professor of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison and 2004
President of the American Chemical Society
Hilton Coliseum, “Challenges for Graduate Education in
Chemistry”
Keynote Speaker 4:00 p.m. Dr. Paula Heron
Associate Professor of Physics
University of Washington-Seattle
Scheman Building, Benton Auditorium, “Student Understanding of Thermal
Physics
Microscopic Particles and Macroscopic Processes”
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Plenary Speaker 8:00 a.m.Dr. Lillian McDermott
Professor of Physics
University of Washington-Seattle
C.Y. Stephens Auditorium “Discipline-Based Education Research:
The Key to Student Learning in the Sciences”
Keynote Speaker 4:00 p.m. Dr. Roy Tasker
Professor of Chemistry
School of Science, University of Sydney, NSW Australia
Scheman Building, Benton Auditorium, “Effective Use and Evaluation
of Interactive
Multimedia Resources for Learning”
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Keynote Speaker 8:30 a.m. Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri
Professor of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scheman Building,, Benton Auditorium, "Chemistry in the Classroom
and in the Community: The Challenge of Citizenship for the Teacher"