Reunion 2008

The actual event starts at 11:00, though you're welcome to come between 10:30 and 11:00. Below is a link to an online map of the campus. http://www.sonoma.edu/maps/maps.php

Come and have lunch with your fellow graduates and the faculty, past and present, of the Chemistry Department. We will honor the recently retired Professors of the Chemistry Department with activities that will begin at 10:30 am on May 10th. For more information please contact Cathi Cari-Shudde in the chemistry Department Office.

National Chemistry Day

60 Hahn Elementary School third graders visited Darwin Hall for two hours Monday, celebrating National Chemistry Day by watching mini-fireworks displays over open flames and balloons exploding in a burst of fire, and smashing carnations frozen by liquid nitrogen. The array of explosions, slime creations and periodic table bingo were staged to trigger the third graders’ interest in science. The event was hosted by 30 volunteers mostly from Sonoma State’s Chemistry Club and featured a periodic table of cupcakes among other enticements geared toward the elementary school set.“Anything that is hands-on and is real, I think is much more powerful than reading it in a book,” said Hahn teacher Diane Flohr, who repeatedly instructed her students not to open their slime beakers (filled with colored poly vinyl alcohol) until they got back to school.

Excerpted from article in Press Democrat by Staff Writer Kerry Benefield kerry.benefield@pressdemocrat.com.