We are an enthusiastic group……

Tim Ayers (2006)

Sharmistha Basu-Dutt

(1997)

David Boatright(2002)Megumi Fujita (2004)Anne Gaquere-Parker

(2002)Vickie Geisler (1991)

John Hansen (1996)

Farooq Khan(1994)

Partha Ray (2000)

Spencer Slattery

(1993) Douglas Stuart (2007) Jill Stallings (1999)

Shane Kuykendall

(1998)

…passionately teaching undergraduates using active learning

strategies

in collaborative learning environments via workshops and supplemental instruction

sessions.

Asst Workshop

Coordinator Professor & Chemistry

Workshop Coordinator

Dusty Otwell (2004)Lucille Garmon (1968)

We mentor freshman learning communities, teach freshman seminars (UWG

1101) and offer exciting courses for science and non-science majors

Pre-Health Learning Community – Khan and Geisler

Pre-engineering Learning Community – Dutt

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and support student chapters of professional

societies.Mole Day Demo

ACS Club

Angel Tree

ACS Club

Empty Stocking Fund

ACS Club

Health Fair

AMSA

Relay for Life

AMSA

In collaboration with colleagues from the College of Education, we provide externally funded professional

development workshops for in-service teachers ($0.5 million Improving Teacher Quality grants in the last 8 years)

….and inform the community about current topics in science via public

lectures

…. excite children about STEM careers via outreach programs.

(100% of Chemistry faculty participated in externally funded $0.5 million IMPACT and REACH

programs)

Faculty spend “unaccounted” hours training students in lab techniques

………and using modern chemical instruments

Students learn to gather and analyze data

and confidently communicate research at local, regional and national

conferences.

Faculty are passionate about doing research

WITH students

35 Peer-reviewed international journal

articles

(mostly with student co-authors) since 1997.

$1.9M External research grants since 1994

$3.1M Teaching/Instructional external grants since 1994

(including $1.2M from BOR, GA)

PURCHASE OF CHEMICAL

INSTRUMENTATION

Approx. $100K in FRG (last 10 years)

Approx. $100K in SRAP (last 10 years)

Purchase chemicals

On-campus jobs

Examples of Publications (35 since 1997) Students in red

• “The Kinetics of the Thermal Denaturation of Detergent-Solubilized Aquaporin-0 in

the Absence and Presence of α-Crystallin,” John E. Hansen, Logan Leslie, and

Satyanarayana Swamy-Mruthinti, Biochemical and Biophysical Research

Communications, 2014, 450, 1668-1672.

• “Analysis of mixtures of C60 and C70 by Raman Spectrometry", J. Brett Kimbrell,

Christopher M. Crittenden, Walter J. Steward, Farooq A. Khan, Anne C. Gaquere-

Parker and Douglas A. Stuart*, Nanoscience Methods, accepted, 2014.

• “Direct binding of halide ions by valinomycin,” J. B. Kimbrell, J. Hite, K. M. Skala, C.

M. Crittenden, C. N. Richardson, S. Swamy Mruthinti, M. Fujita*, F. A. Khan*,

Supramolecular Chemistry, 2011, 23, 782-789.

• "Synthesis of N1-Alkyl 1,4-Diazepinones via Schmidt Ring Expansion

Chemistry,” Morin Frick,Danielle McAtee, Jesse McAtee, Christina Wysoczynski, and

Partha S. Ray, Heterocyclic Communications, 2011, 17, 17-19.

• "Temperature Effect on an Ultrasound-Assisted Paper de-Inking Process," A.

Gaquere-Parker, A. Ahmed, T. Isola, B. Marong, C. Shacklady, P. Tchoua, Ultrasonics,

Sonochemistry, 2009, 16, 698-703.

• "Tuning Redox and Spin State Properties of Fe(II) N-Heterocyclic Complexes via

Electronic/Steric Influence on Metal-Ligand Binding," T. Ayers, R. Turk, C. Lane, J.

Goins, D.L. Jameson, S.J. Slattery*, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2004, 357, 202.

• "A Statistical Mechanical Analysis of Energy and Entropy," Gardner, K., Croker, E.,

Basu-Dutt, S.*Chemical Educator, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-6.

• "Nitration of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using a Supported Catalyst," A.C.

Smith, L.D.Narvaez, B.G. Akins, M.M. Langford, T.D. Gary, V. J. Geisler, and F.A.

Khan*, Synthetic Communications 29, 4187, 1999.

Many of our majors go to Grad School (55 since 1995)Danielle Shacklady

McAtee

PhD (U of Delaware)

Research Chemist, BASF

Eric Huddleston

PhD (UGA)

Asst Prof. U of North

GA

Susan Hughes Garner

PhD (UTexas Austin)

Research Chemist

Mary Kate McBrayer

PhD (Cornell)

Coleen Knight

PhD (Emory)

Asst. Prof.

Coastal College of GA

James Burgess

PhD (Alabama)

Research Scientist

Tim Ayers

PhD (UGA)

Lecturer,

UWG

Jonathan Myers

PhD (Indiana Univ)

Asst. Prof.

Columbus State U

and many join the chemical industry or teach high school.

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Some go to Medical School (20 since 1995) and some get dual degrees in Engineering from GA Tech (30

since 1996)Laura Altom

Vanderbilt Med

School

Thomas Cochran

U South Carolina

Med School

Ajay Pillai

Medical College of

GA

Brent Bermingham

UWG + GA Tech dual

degree, UAB Med School

UWG + GA Tech dual

degree

Moyeen Abiodun

Benson

Ledbetter

Megan Nickel Dave Hebert

Jill Buchanan

Mercer Med School

Bette Ford

Ross Univ Med

School

Ashley

Blasiole

More Examples

• Amanda Cooke - Anesthesia PA at Piedmont Atlanta

Hospital (UWG graduate in 1999)

• John Tyler Cene - Resident, Emergency Medicine

at Palmetto Health Richland Memorial Hospital (UWG

graduate in 2003)

• Chea Rainford - Family and Cosmetic Dentist

at Vibrant Smiles Family & Cosmetic Dentistry (UWG

graduate in 2003)

• Matt Davis - Physician at Medlink Georgia (UWG

graduate in 2005)

• Amy Reed - OB/GYN Resident at UAB (UWG graduate

in 2007)

• Sara Morgan - Studied Clinical Mental Health

Counseling at Mercer University Atlanta; Works

at Intern Counselor (UWG graduate in 2003)

• AND MORE…

We are very proud of special recognitions of our graduates!

Joanna Denton

USG award for outstanding

UWG graduate (2014)

Yong Suh

Goldwater (2000), Marshall (2001)Logan Leslie

Goldwater (2005), Gates-Cambridge (2006)Toma Omonuwa

Goldwater (2003)

Alisha Contractor

USG award for outstanding

UWG graduate (2013)

Andrew Vinyard

NSF Graduate Fellowship Award (2014)