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Bryn Mawr Chemistry Professor to Talk on Contemplative Practices in the Classroom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: 02-03-2011
Kathleen McPartland
Public Affairs
530-898-4260
Margaret DuFon
Department of English
530-898-6151
Francl is a professor of chemistry and chair of her department at Bryn Mawr College. She is listed by Imperial Chemical Industries as one of the top 1,000 most-cited chemists in the world. She teaches both chemistry and writing and embeds contemplative practices in both courses.
In 2008, Francl was selected as a Contemplative Practice Fellow by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit professional academic association). She is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, active in the American Chemical Society and the author of “The Survival Guide for Physical Chemistry.”
In the course description for “Quantum States of Being: Incorporating Contemplative Practices into the Chemistry Curriculum,” her winning project for the Contemplative Practice Fellowship, Francl wrote: “By embedding a set of contemplative practices into the teaching of introductory quantum chemistry, this course will demonstrate for students and colleagues the value of these approaches in learning and doing science…” She hopes to provide budding scientists with another set of ways to reflect on their work in relationship to the larger world.
“The world deserves scientists who do not see themselves as masters of nature, able to trick the natural world into their will, but as those who can listen attentively enough to the world to hear its will for them,” wrote Francl.
Francl’s presentation is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Faculty Initiative for Transformative Learning and funded by a CELT (Center for Learning and Teaching) Impact Grant. For further information, contact Margaret DuFon at mdufon@sbcglobal.net or 530-898-6151.
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