As an accomplished, award-winning chemistry educator who has successfully taught inorganic, organic, analytical, and advanced synthesis chemistry and supervised synthesis research at the undergraduate and graduate level, I would bring a quality level of teaching, research and outreach to your department. My teaching experience also includes the special courses 'Science Fiction Science', teaching the science and writing of science fiction; 'Life with the Atom�, about nuclear technology in our society; and �Exploring Materials Science�, for first-year chemistry students.  My current research program at Gustavus Adolphus College enlists six students exploring the goal of incorporating phthalocyanines, porphyrins and the bridging heterocyclic ligand 1,6,7,12-tetraazaperylene into functional supramolecular structures for potential electronic, catalytic, nanotechnology and biomedicine applications.  Pedagogical techniques for helping students develop an excitement for chemistry will be discussed.  [Ph.D., Chemistry: Univ. Illinois; postdoctoral: Univ. Minnesota, Univ. Iowa; teaching: Grinnell Coll. (Adjunct), Tennessee State Univ., Muhlenberg Coll., Gustavus Adolphus Coll. (Adjunct, current)]

Functional supramolecular constructs of edge-binding phthalocyanines and porphyrins, and of the bridging ligand 1,6,7,12-tetraazaperylene

244th National Meeting (2012)

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