Jeffrey Kovac
"Jeffrey Kovac. " Educated at Reed College and Yale University, Jeffrey Kovac is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry and interdisciplinary courses for the university honors program since 1976. Since 1994 he has served as Director of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Sciences, a four-week summer residential enrichment program in science for talented high school students. He is a Fellow of the American...See more
"Jeffrey Kovac. " Educated at Reed College and Yale University, Jeffrey Kovac is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry and interdisciplinary courses for the university honors program since 1976. Since 1994 he has served as Director of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Sciences, a four-week summer residential enrichment program in science for talented high school students. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His interdisciplinary scholarly interests include statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, history and philosophy of science, especially scientific ethics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has been writing and lecturing about ethics in science for more than ten years. He is coauthor, along with Donna W. Sherwood, of "Writing Across the Chemistry Curriculum: An Instructor's Handbook, " also published by Prentice Hall (2001). See less
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