Instructions, Background, & Disclaimers

Instructions

In addition to the obvious way of moving around within this site (clicking on marked words to link you to another place) there are two other useful methods:

Background

The Chemistry and Art course at Sewanee was developed in 1991-92 by John Bordley and Janet Schrenk of the chemistry department and Pradip Malde of the fine arts department under an NSF ILI grant, DUE-9153695. The course has been taught each year since 1993.

The course was designed to meet the laboratory science requirement (two, seventy-five minute lectures and an afternoon lab each week) for non-science majors.

A primary idea from the beginning, as is evidenced by the design of the Home Page, was to deal with some topics from art such that a chemist would see a list of fundamental chemistry topics, with examples from the field of art, while an artist would see a list of art fields, with explanations of the underlying chemistry.

Disclaimers

The site is definitely still under construction. In fact it will probably always be under construction, as each time the course is taught students will be able to add to the site.

The site went 'on-line' for the first time on 5 June 1997. Students in the class that semester designed web pages for the pigments they studied and for their final projects. Majors additions were made in the summer of 1998. Class notes and laboratory assignments were added in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005. Project reports are added each year.

The site was designed by Bo Zheng (See: Some Details about this Site) and me during January 1997. The idea was to create the overall structure and design and to provide templates for the students to use to add their contributions.

Please direct any comments, suggestions, advice, errors, etc., to me at jbordley@sewanee.edu.

This site is copyrighted by John Bordley, © June 1997

John Bordley
F. B. Williams Professor and Chair
Chemistry Department
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN, 37383-1000