OrganicERs is the outgrowth of conversation amongst a handful of organic chemists over lunch in Pollock Commons at the 2012 BCCE. We took a brief hiatus from discussing the removal of JoePa’s statue to think about what could improve our own teaching and that of other organic faculty around the country. We were aware of VIPEr and all that it does to support inorganic instruction. Could we do something similar for organic chemistry? David Collard, co-PI for the NSF-sponsored Chemistry Collaborations, Workshops and Community of Scholars program (cCWCS), thought we could.
