Session: Chemical Health and Safety Poster Session:

Chemical Safety in the Research Laboratory (Chem 620) is a one credit graduate level course required of all students. The course began face-to-face, but due to the COVID pandemic, it was then modified to a hybrid format, and later required to be 100% online. The first half of the course covered basic research lab safety, and a take-home midterm exam assessed student learning. However, to engage students through the turbulence of changing course formats, the second half of the course was seminar-based. Each student prepared and delivered a thirty minute Zoom seminar on a topic of their choosing. Part 2 of ths poster session focuses on specific chemicals and their corresponding accidents: ammonium perchlorate, organic peroxides, nickel hydrazine perchlorate, flame tests using methyl alcohol, gas cylinders, and Takata air bags.

Jonathan Devos

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