The chair succession—Nikita Burrows (past chair), Elizabeth Day (chair), Regis Komperda (chair-elect)—send you greetings from the Chemical Education Research Committee (CERC)! We have been busy with new and continuing initiatives that forward our mission to educate chemistry education researchers, foster scholarship, and encourage improvement of the quality of chemistry education research. Specifically, we have worked on the following:
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BCCE 2026 Putting CER into Practice
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BCCE 2026 New and Noteworthy — as part of an initiative to lengthen the eligibility cycles of nominations
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Research in Chemistry Education symposia at Spring and Fall 2026 ACS
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Spearheading a new initiative to create a CER Resource Hub in partnership with ChemEd X
We welcomed a new committee member Edward Davis (Auburn University), Josie Nardo (The Ohio State University), and Ying Wang (University of South Florida). Our next open meeting will be at the Fall 2026 ACS National Meeting. We hope to see many of you there!