Ohio crime solvers.

摘要

The body of Walter Smith, an electrochemistry professor, is found buried at a construction site on a coltcge campus. Could a respected member of the faculty have committed thc murder? A teenage girl, Rebecca Ferris, is discovered dead by thc side of the country road, an apparent hit-and-run victim. Is Bradley Kimrner, a local man whose home is not far away, guilty of vehicular homicide? During the past three years, the task of solving these and other "crimes" has been put to analytical chemistry studcnts at the College of Wooster and Oberlin College--two pfivatc, fbur-ycar undergraduate colleges in northeastern Ohio. Cooperative project laboratories that provide students with a multiweek, researchlike, capstonc experience have replaced conventional, one-instrumental-methoda-week experiments. Although the colleges developed their projects indcpendently, they are analogous.