Oral history interview with Catherine Hurt Middlecamp 2009 July 21 & 22

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Middlecamp, Catherine,. Oral history interview with Catherine Hurt Middlecamp 2009 July 21 & 22

Oral history interview with Catherine Hurt Middlecamp 2009 July 21 & 22

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743095500

Catherine Hurt Middlecamp attended Cornell University, where women made up about one-fifth of the undergraduate student body. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA and a major in chemistry. She was selected as a Danforth Fellow for graduate study and chose to enroll at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she entered Robert West's research lab on organosilicon chemistry. After finishing her Ph.D., Middlecamp served for a year as a Danforth Teaching Intern at Knox College, then she took a faculty position at Hobart & William Smith Colleges before moving back to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. While there she developed (and still teaches) a general chemistry course for non-science majors, Chemistry in Context . In 2003, Middlecamp was elected chair of the Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS) program, a long-standing interdisciplinary certificate program on campus. The interview concludes with Middlecamp's views on teaching versus research, which she believes is a false dichotomy; what she believes are the many nefarious ways in which women are seen as unserious scholars; the undervaluation and dismissal of women and teaching; and the inherent difficulties of the tenure system.

Sound recordings ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (85 leaves) ; 29 cm.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History