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From "The Chemistry of Teaching: Modic ’84 Earns National Recognition," Michigan Tech Alumni and Friends Stories, May 2025 Like any successful chemical reaction, great teaching requires the right elements. For Amiee (Larchar) Modic ’84 (BS Chemistry), recipient of the 2025 James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching, those elements include authenticity, enthusiasm, and a spark of inspiration. . . .

Professor Ge Wang earned her PhD at Michigan Technological University in 2002, having received a BS and MS in China in 1992 and 1995. In 2004, she joined the University of Science and Technology Beijing (UTSB) as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 2006 and doctoral supervisor in 2008. While at USTB her positions have been director of the International Office, assistant president, and vice president . . .

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1911, Melvin Calvin received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in 1931 and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1935. He began his academic career in 1937 at the University of California at Berkeley, where he stayed for the remainder of his career. He died in 1997. Calvin was the first scientist to unravel the . . .