Each Spring, Jeremy Garritano teaches Chemistry 513: Chemical Information Sources. Garritano is an Associate Professor of Library Science here at Purdue, and in his role as Chemical Information Specialist at the MG Mellon Library of Chemistry he works as liaison between the library and the Chemistry department, teaching this undergraduate seminar. In it, he helps more…
This course (SCI 360) teaches students about key societal issues, such as energy, climate change, water, and food, while simultaneously developing students’ information retrieval, evaluation, and application skills. Drawing together several innovative pedagogic approaches, students in the class experience an intensive semester of weekly writing assignments, small group “think tank” exercises, peer review of each more…
