Faculty Service
Members of our faculty are very involved in serving others. Examples include participation in "Chemagination Day" and "Reaching for the Stars" programs for children, setting up experiments for the Alliance for Minority Participation Program (AMP), travelling to the community colleges to help under-represented ethnic students transfer to CSUS, holding office hours in the Science Educational Equity office, assisting in research at the Sacramento Heart Association (a local physicians group) making presentations to elementary, middle, and high schools. In addition, faculty members have spent hours helping students apply to health professional schools, coordinating student organizations such as the Multicultural Organization of Science Students and the Pre-Health Professional Student Organization.
The work of our Chemistry club has received national honors from
the American Chemical Society. Students do a variety of outreach
activities, including hands-on activities for children at Sunrise
Mall during National Chemistry Week, presentations at SCATS (Schools
and Colleges for Advancing the Teaching of Science) meetings, hands
on activities for elementary schools, demonstrations at River City
Days, and helped with undergraduate activities which enhance students'
ability to provide service to the community.
Our faculty have been
very active in the Science Olympiad held at CSUS every spring. Our "Wine Appreciation and Its Chemistry" course has filled
for each of the past 22 years, primarily by wine experts and neophytes
from the community. Near the end of each fall semester, the students
pick grapes in the Napa valley and make several gallons of quite
good wine. Our department has been so successful in implementing
an assessment plan that our chair is regularly invited to make assessment
presentations at other universities.
