Chemical Conundrums in the Movies

Mark Griep is a professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who has devoted his teaching career to finding ways to engage people in learning more chemistry. Inspired by “Clambake,” an Elvis Presley movie that featured a fast-drying, super-hard varnish called GOOP, Griep began offering “Chemistry in the Movies” presentations to middle school and high school students in 2002. These presentations include “Behind the Scenes of Bubbling Apparatus in the Movies” and “Everything I Know about Chemistry, I learned at the Movies.” Join us as he talks about “Chemical Conundrums in the Movies”. It’s about solving the most difficult chemical puzzles that he found in movies.