The coronavirus threat has nearly closed our campus and spring break has been extended one week to allow instructors time to adapt to teaching their lecture courses online for the rest of the semester. But what about laboratory classes? Laboratory Director Connie Fox came up with the solution to videotape someone performing the remaining experiments. So during spring break, Laboratory Assistant Brenda Beatty prepared the chemicals for each experiment and then the dynamic duo of Fox (as experimenter and narrator) and adjunct instructor Merilee Britt (as camerawoman) took over and performed one experiment after another with help from adjunct instructor Clark Hartford on a few experiments. In just a few days of extraordinary effort they processed about ten experiments to handle the last month in our C121, C125, and C126 laboratory courses. This week, Professor Kasey Clear is following their example to deal with the remainder of his organic chemistry laboratory. Moving to all online courses has been - and will continue to be - a difficult task for both faculty and students. Thanks to everyone for their patience and diligence.
