Courses
Chem 2201 - Organic Chemistry I
Chem 2202 - Organic Chemistry II
Chem 2203 - Organic Chemistry Lab I
Chem 2211 - Majors Organic Chemistry I
Chem 2921 - Honors Organic Chemistry I
Chem 2212 - Majors Organic Chemistry II
Chem 2922 - Honors Organic Chemistry II
Chem 5202 - Advanced Organic Chemistry
Chem 4207 - Advanced Organic Preparation (aka Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Molecules)
Chem 8985 - Teaching in Higher Education
Interests
My research is in the area of chemical education and in particular I have explored the development and assessment of teaching tools. One of the teaching tools I have helped develop is the textbook Organic Chemistry, 5th Edition, M. Jones and S. A. Fleming, WWNorton Publishing. A second teaching tool which I have helped develop is Organic Reaction Animations (ORA). This software is available online and it uses calculated reaction pathways to illustrate the reaction pathways for more than 50 organic reactions. A third teaching tool I have developed is the NSF supported program named Bio-Organic Reaction Animations (BioORA). BioORA is available online and it covers topics that includes enzyme chemistry, lipids, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates. The animations that are included in the program are based on crystal structures from the Protein Data Bank and subsequent calculations of the chemical path for substrate to metabolite conversion.
Biography
1984-1986 Postdoctoral researcher, Colorado State University
1984 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
1978 B.S. University of Utah
Selected Awards
Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2011), Fellow of American Chemical Society (2015)