{"id":26519,"date":"2024-08-13T05:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iupac.org\/?p=26519"},"modified":"2024-10-17T05:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T09:09:35","slug":"chemistry-education-award-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iupac.org\/chemistry-education-award-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry Education Award 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024 CCE Chemistry Education Awards were presented to Mei-Hung Chiu, and to Shelley Rap and Amanda Bongers at ICCE2024.<\/h1>\n

The 2024 Distinguished Contribution to Chemistry Education (DCCE) Award was awarded to Mei-Hung Chiu.<\/h2>\n
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Mei-Hung Chiu (2nd from left), with Peter Mahaffy (former CCE Chair), Supawan Tantayanon (ICCE2024 Chair), and Marietjie Potgieter (CCE Chair)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Distinguished Contribution to Chemistry Education Award \u00a0–an award presented by the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education<\/a> (CCE)– was presented to Professor Emerita Mei-Hung Chiu<\/strong><\/a> from the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), during the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Chemistry Education (ICCE2024<\/a>) which took place in Pattaya, Thailand in July 2024. The DCCE lifetime award recognizes Professor Chiu\u2019s outstanding contribution to improving the teaching and learning of chemistry at both local and international levels, her contribution and leadership in international chemistry education forums and projects, and her leadership and service to IUPAC and CCE over her career. This is the second highest-honour award that she received from IUPAC, following her IUPAC Distinguished Woman in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering award in 2021. She has also received two other regional lifetime awards – the Distinguished Contribution to Science Education Awards from the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS) (2009) and the East-Asian Science Education Association (EASE) (2016). She has led numerous Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YAC) and Flying Chemistry Educators (FCEP) outreach projects on behalf of the CCE in emerging countries with lasting positive impact.<\/p>\n

Mei-Hung Chiu<\/strong> has served IUPAC and the international science education fraternity in many different capacities during the past two decades. She is a former chair of the CCE (2012 \u2013 2015) and was an elected member of IUPAC Bureau and Executive Committee for two terms (2016 \u2013 2023). She acted as a co-lead and IUPAC representative on the multi-disciplinary project, \u201cA Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences\u201d (2017 ongoing), and represented IUPAC as a founding member for the ICSU-affiliated Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) (2020 \u2013 2023). Professor Chiu was the first president of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST, USA) (2016 \u2013 2017) from a non-English speaking country, and the first invited plenary speaker with chemistry education as specialization at an IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (Sao Paulo, 2017). She is currently a member of the International Science Council (ISC) Governing Board (2021 \u2013 2024) and a co-chair of the ISC Consultation Group on Science Education (2023 \u2013 2024).<\/p>\n

Professor Chiu has assembled an impressive scholarly record that has greatly contributed to chemical education research and to the teaching and learning of chemistry education, and she is cited by many researchers all over the world. Her research approach blends providing solutions to important problems encountered in practice with scholarly theoretical contributions. The IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education acknowledges with great appreciation the substantial and important contributions that she has made to literature, and the impact she has had on the teaching and learning of chemistry through her numerous professional development initiatives and presentations to teachers and chemical educators worldwide.<\/p>\n

Past award winners of this prestigious award are:
\n2010: Peter Atkins, Oxford University, England, and Lida Schoen, CCE Young Ambassadors of Chemistry, Netherlands
\n2012: Peter Mahaffy, The King\u2019s University, Canada, and Bob Bucat, University of Western Australia, Australia
\n2014: Morton Hoffman, Boston University, USA
\n2016: Kazuko Ogino, Tohoku University, Japan
\n2018: Supawan Tantayanon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand<\/p>\n

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The 2024 Outstanding Early Career Researcher in Chemistry Education Award has been awarded to Amanda Bongers and Shelley Rap<\/h2>\n
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CCE 2024 Awardees Shelley Rap, Amanda Bongers, and Mei-Hung Chiu<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The inaugural 2024 CCE<\/strong> Outstanding Early Career Researcher in Chemistry Education Award<\/strong>, co-sponsored by the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) and 27th<\/sup> International Conference on Chemistry Education (ICCE) Organizing Committee, recognizes early career researchers who are producing high quality and impactful chemical education research as evidenced by their research output, such as journal articles, conference contributions, and evidence of research that translates into practice. The awardees were selected from the nominees by a committee of CCE. The prize consists of a certificate, a plaque, and a registration fee waiver for the ICCE. In 2024, the award was presented at the 27th<\/sup> ICCE held in Pattaya, Thailand to two awardees, namely:<\/p>\n