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A Professor at Notre Dame Sparks a Quiet Revolution in How Chemistry Is Taught

By ANA MARIE COX

South Bend, Ind.

Dennis C. Jacobs had been teaching chemistry at the University of Notre Dame for almost 10 years before he set foot in front of a lecture hall full of freshmen in 1995. An active researcher with about half a million dollars in grants a year, he had dealt mainly with upperclassmen...

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