James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching

Sponsor: The Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

Purpose: To recognize, encourage, and stimulate outstanding teachers of high school chemistry in the United States, its possessions or territories, at the national level.

Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. A certificate will also be provided to the recipient's institution for display.

Eligibility: Any individual, except a member of the award selection committee or currently enrolled student of the nominee, may submit one nomination or support form in any given year. Local sections are especially encouraged to submit nominations for the award. The nominee must be actively engaged in the teaching of chemistry in a high school (grades 9 -12). The nomination should clearly demonstrate as many of the following attributes of the nominee as possible:

1. Quality of teaching (unusually effective methods of presentation should be emphasized)
2. Ability to challenge and inspire students
3. Extracurricular work in chemistry including science fairs, science clubs, and activities that stimulate the interest of young people in chemistry and related sciences
4. Willingness to keep up-to-date in the field, as evidenced by pursuit of a higher degree in chemistry, enrollment in refresher courses and summer institutions, regular attendance at scientific meetings, and other means of self-improvement

Support forms are not essential, but two may be included with each nomination. Support forms may include careful evaluations of the teacher's effectiveness by a supervisor or principal, by associates, or by members of the Society who have visited the nominee's classes. Letters from currently enrolled high school students are not acceptable, but letters from former students may be included. Retired teachers are ineligible for nomination.

Establishment & Support: The Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. began sponsoring the award in 2007. The ACS sponsored the award in 1973, 1974, 2005, and 2006. The Albemarle Corp. sponsored the award from 1994 to 2004. The award was sponsored by the Ethyl Corporation from 1980 to 1993 and by the Chemical Education Material Study from 1975 to 1979. The award was established in 1965 by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. which supported it from 1967 to 1972.

Nomination forms

Contact Information

Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-4801
Phone: 202-872-4408
Fax: 202-776-8008
awards@acs.org

Recipient

2009 Sally B. Mitchell

2008 Richard Goodman

2007 Eleanor W. Siegrist

2006 Gwendolyn S. Marbury

2005 Annis Hapkiewicz

2004 Toni A. Watt

2003 Linda K. Ford

2002 Theresa R. Corley

2001 Barbara Pressey Sitzman

2000 Frank G. Cardulla

1999 John L. Ihde

1998 Maria R. Walsh

1997 Robert D. Becker

1996 David Pysnik

1995 Robert J. Lewis

1994 Lee Marek

1993 Michael J. Bannon

1992 Lois Fruen

1991 Mary E. Key

1990 John Liebermann, Jr.

1989 Clifford L. Schrader

1988 Edmund J. Escudero

1987 Mary C. Johnson

1986 Ronald I. Perkins

1985 Douglas D. Smith

1984 Douglas A. Halsted

1983 Janet A. Harris

1982 Robert Roe, Jr.

1981 Floyd F. Sturtevant

1980 Evelyn R. Bank

1979 Shirley E. Richardson

1978 Samuel H. Perlmutter

1977 Sidney P. Harris

1976 Dorthea H. Hoffmann

1975 George W. Stapleton

1974 Wallace J. Gleekman

1973 Melvin Greenstadt