Bob Hanson



story about the biggest glider ever
Private Pilot: Glider (10/21/97)
Active Member, Minnesota Soaring Club
Member, American Chemical Society, Jmol Development Team,
Association of Managers of Magnetic Resonance Laboratories
ACS Committee on Computers in Chemical Education
Member, Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra (CVRO)/(NAG)
Participant, ChemEd-L, ChemWebDev-L, Sudoku Programmer Forum

Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
St. Olaf College (map)
Northfield, MN 55057

E-Mail: hansonr@stolaf.edu
office: Sc346, phone/fax: 507-786-3107


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Research and Teaching
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Teaching

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I'm very interested in the process by which beginning students learn chemistry. One of my innovations is "Data-Driven Chemistry," which I use when teaching our interim course, Chemistry 123, Atomic and Molecular Structure. The data-driven method is based on the idea that science is fundamentally data-oriented. As applied to introductory chemistry, the idea is to present students with sets of information ("data") and get them, working in groups, to build clear, concise models of atomic and molecular structure strictlyfrom the data presented.

Students in Chemistry 123

  • discussed sets of data in small groups,
  • worked to integrate those data into their developing model, and
  • produced tightly focused essay-style reports interpreting the data.

The goal of data-driven chemistry, then, is to encourage students to build their own personal model of chemical structure based on real data. An application of data-driven chemistry is my book, Molecular Origami: Precision Scale Models from Paper ( University Science Books)

Also available on the Web is an evaluation including student comments relating to Molecular Origami and Data-Driven Chemistry from Chemistry 123, 1995.

Research

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Chemical Informatics, Visualization and Simulation, Green Chemistry

Publications

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Robert M. Hanson and Susan Green, Introduction to Molecular Thermodynamics University Science Books, 2008) check it out!

Robert M. Hanson and B. Michalek, "Give Them Money: The Boltzmann Game, a Classroom or Laboratory Activity Modeling Entropy Changes and the Distribution of Energy in Chemical Systems" J. Chem. Educ. 2006 abstract

Robert M. Hanson and I. M. Hanson, "Elementary Bingo" J. Chem. Educ. WebWare 2004 http://www.jce.divched.org/JCEDLib/WebWare/collection/open/JCEWWOR024/index.html

Robert M. Hanson, "Playing-Card Equilibrium" J. Chem. Educ. 2003 80, 1271 abstract

Robert M. Hanson, "Orbital" in "General Chemistry Collection, 7th Edition, a CD-ROM for Students," Jon L. Holmes and Nancy S. Gettys, Eds., J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 709 check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, "Orbital" J. Chem. Educ. 2003, 80, 109 check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, "The Organic ChemIST: Interactive Student Tutorial" (Prentice Hall, 2003, 511 pp.) check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, "Principal Species and pH in Acid/Base Solution" J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 1486 check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, "Chemical Name Game" J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 1380 check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, "What's in a Name?" J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 1380 check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, "Mechanism-Based Kinetics Simulator" J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 1379 check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, "Huckel Determinant Solver" J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 1379 check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, Epoxide Migration (Payne Rearrangement) and Related Reactions, in Organic Reactions, Vol. 60, Larry E. Overman, et al., Ed., pp 1-156 (Wiley, 2002) check it out!

Barry Cipra, Robert M. Hanson, Amy Kolan, "Periodic Trajectories in Right-Triangle Billiards" Physical Review E 1995, 52, 2066

Robert M. Hanson, Molecular Origami: Precision Scale Models from Paper (University Science Books, 1995, 224 pp.) check it out!

Robert M. Hanson, S. A. Bergman, "Data-Driven Chemistry: Making Molecular Models (Literally) from Electron Diffraction Data, J. Chem. Educ. 1994, 150

G. L. Hardgrove, J. S. Clark, A. Q. Thieu, R. M. Hanson, "Structure of (S,S)-(E)-3-(2-butenoyl)-2,4-bis(phenylmethyl)oxazolidine" Acta Cryst. C49 1993, 336.

Robert M. Hanson, "The Synthetic Methodology of Nonracemic Glycidol and Related 2,3-Epoxy Alcohols" Chemical Reviews 1991, 437-475.

Robert M. Hanson, S.Y. Ko, and K. Barry. Sharpless, "Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation" U.S. Patent 4,900,847, 1990

Yun Gao, Robert M. Hanson, Janice M. Klunder, Soo Y.Ko, Hiroko Masamune, and K. Barry Sharpless, "Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation and Kinetic Resolution: Modified Procedures Including in Situ Derivatization" J.Amer. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 5765.

Robert M. Hanson, "FLATLAND and the Threefold Challenge of Text and Chemical Graphics Integration" in Graphics for Chemical Structures, W. Warr, Ed.; ACS Symposium Series #341; American ChemicalSociety: Washington, D.C., 1987.

Robert M. Hanson and K.Barry. Sharpless, "Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation" J. Org. Chem. 1986, 51, 1922.

Robert M. Hanson, "Absolute Stereochemistry of the Triol Moiety of Gymnoprenols: A Reinvestigation" Tetrahedron Lett. 1984, 23, 3783-6.

Robert M. Hanson, "Studies Directed Toward the Total Synthesis of the Steroidal Alkaloid Germine" Ph.D. Thesis,Columbia Univ., 1983.

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