Dr. Melissa Reeves received her B.S. in chemistry at University of Florida and her Ph.D. in chemistry at Indiana University at Bloomington. She is a professor of chemistry at Tuskegee University where she specializes in physical chemistry and computational chemistry. Her research interests have ranged from calculating transition states of small molecule reactions in solution to molecular dynamics of polymers. 

Reeves was part of the Physical Chemistry Online (PCOL) group in the early 2000s, has worked on two American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Exam Committees, and works as part of the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning Physical Chemistry Laboratory (POGIL-PCL) community.  As part of The POGIL Project, she has served on the POGIL Activity Clearinghouse (PAC) working group since 2016, including chairing the group this past year.

"I am honored and grateful to be recognized with a PEACH Award,” says Reeves.  “My involvement with The POGIL Project has been a deeply rewarding part of my career, for both the work accomplished and the people I have met."