Affiliation:
1. Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Abstract
Dr. Brian P. Coppola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. He was born in 1957, the same year that Sputnik launched, and was educated by many of the progressive school science movements of the 1960s. He excelled in the college preparatory program at Pinkerton Academy, in Derry, NH. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1978 from the University of New Hampshire, where he also pursued his interest in art, particularly drawing. In 1980, during graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while volunteering as the first study group leader in organic chemistry for the Greater University Tutorial Service (GUTS), Coppola had a chance encounter with Harry Behrman. Behrman invented the GUTS program as a part of his PhD in Education, and he ended up sitting in the back of Coppola’s study group room, taking field notes for his thesis. Every week, Behrman and Coppola had a few hours of intense conversation about education as a field of scholarly endeavor, the integration of which into science formed the foundation of Coppola’s professional interests and future plans
Publisher
Scientific Methodical Centre "Scientia Educologica"
Reference22 articles.
1. Coppola, B. P. (1998). Progress in Practice: Three plenaries. I. Richard N. Zare, enhance, enable, and elucidate. The Chemical Educator, 3 (3), s00897980215a.
2. Coppola, B. P. (2001). Full human presence. In A. G. Reinarz, & E. R. White (Eds.), Beyond teaching to mentoring. New directions in teaching and learning no. 83 (pp. 57-73). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
3. Coppola, B. P. (2002). Strength in numbers. Making the large lecture course work for you. In C. A. Stanley, & M. E. Porter (Eds.), Engaging large classes. Strategies and techniques for college faculty (pp. 257-268). Bolton, MA: Anker.
4. Coppola, B. P. (2007). The most beautiful theories. Journal of Chemical Education, 84 (12), 1902-1911.
5. Coppola, B. P. (2013). The distinctiveness of a higher education. Journal Chemical Education, 90 (8), 955-956.