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City Tech Chemistry Professor Creates Innovative Tool for Distance Learning Being Used at Educational Institutions Across the U.S.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

To drive the spectrometer, Deiner and his partners created a kit including custom software and a six-module curriculum of experiments.

Key Points: 
  • To drive the spectrometer, Deiner and his partners created a kit including custom software and a six-module curriculum of experiments.
  • City Tech Provost and Chemical Engineer Pamela Brown says, “Typically, spectrometers are expensive pieces of equipment, accessible only in chemistry labs.
  • In learning how to create hands-on place-independent activities and foster social and community interaction across distance, we met an urgent need.
  • Jay Deiner is an Associate Professor of Chemistry (City Tech, CUNY) and co-founder of Trimontana, an educational technology company devoted to enabling place-independent hands-on STEM learning.