We are celebrating Dr. Rotich!
Congratulations to Dr. Fridah Rotich! Photos from the ceremony on December 12, 2024.
UNC Greensboro
Huge congrats to Austin who won the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award (URCA)!
Austin Cook won funding through the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award (URCA) program to support his work on a project titled Characterizing Student Proficiency with the Affordances and Limitations of Multiple Organic Chemistry Representations! Austin will also participate in the 2025 Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo on April 10,… Continue reading…
Maia gave a seminar at the University of Arizona about inorganic chemistry instructors’ teaching of symmetry!
Symmetry is a fundamental concept in inorganic chemistry, playing a key role in understanding how molecules behave and interact. However, we know surprisingly little about how it is taught or what influences instructors’ choices in covering symmetry. To explore this, we observed 14 inorganic chemistry instructors from various institutions, analyzing… Continue reading…
We published a CERP paper about the design and evaluation of our organic chemistry representational competence assessment (ORCA)!
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/RP/D3RP00188A This paper describes the design and evaluation of the Organic chemistry Representational Competence Assessment (ORCA). Grounded in Kozma and Russell’s representational competence framework, the ORCA measures the learner’s ability to interpret, translate, and use six commonly used representations of molecular structure (condensed structures, Lewis structures, skeletal structures, wedge-dash diagrams,… Continue reading…
Roshie gave a fantastic literature seminar on Systems Thinking in Chemistry Education Research!
Huge congrats to our Roshie G. Bhaskar for a successful literature seminar presentation! All the careful preparation showed! We are so proud of you! Onward and upward! Roshie gave tribute to the very thoughtful work from Alisha Szozda, Peter Mahaffy, Alison Flynn, Vicente Talanquer, and colleagues on the state of Systems… Continue reading…
Meghan gave an excellent literature seminar presentation on the state of Green Chemistry Education!
Huge congrats to our Meghan Kelly for a successful literature seminar presentation! All the careful preparation showed! We are so proud of you! Onward and upward! Meghan gave tribute to the very thoughtful work from Dr. Alexey Leontyev on the state of Green Chemistry Education
We published a JRST article about the impact of recognition on science identity of marginalized women pursuing their PhDs in Chemistry!
https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21986 Even though marginalized women are earning more doctoral degrees in chemistry than ever before, the proportion of women who complete chemistry doctorates does not reflect national population trends. Previous research has explored the experiences of marginalized women seeking chemistry doctorate degrees. These studies highlight the issues that marginalized women… Continue reading…
Congratulations to our Shanna and Roshie for each winning the Munroe Student Research Grant! 🌟
9/23/2024 MunROE FUND provides resources for STEM student researchers
Postdoc job opportunity alert! 🌟
We’re excited to invite applications for a postdoctoral researcher position in the Popova Group within the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a postdoctoral scholar, you’ll be part of our NSF-sponsored project titled “Collaborative Research: Broadening Instructional Innovation in the Chemistry Laboratory through Excellence in Curriculum… Continue reading…