Acknowledgments

The development of the Chemical Thinking curriculum would not have been possible without the collaboration and support from different individuals and funding agencies. The project started in 2007 with a grant from the National Science Foundation (DUE-0736844) led by Vicente Talanquer and John Pollard, with the collaboration of Steve Brown from the University of Arizona and Silvia Kolchens and Pollyanna Wikrent from Pima Community College. We also benefited from resources provided by the State of Arizona through the Learner Centered Education Initiative. More recently, the project has received support from the Association of American Universities (AAU) through their Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative. All these years, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona has provided the resources needed to keep the project alive and moving forward.

Many graduate students and undergraduate preceptors have helped implement and develop activities for different areas of the curriculum. In particular, we would like to thank Jenine Maeyer, Carly Schnoebelen, Marilyne Stains, and Melissa Weinrich for their work on the project. New instructors and educational staff have joined the team that is implementing the Chemical Thinking curriculum across all sections of General Chemistry for science and engineering majors at the University of Arizona. They provide invaluable feedback to improve the different components of the curriculum and make it an ongoing project. We particularly acknowledge the work of Mark Yanagihashi in the design, testing, and implementation of the different lab projects.