After returning from a sabbatical in 2010, Andri Smith adopted POGIL and has never looked back. She currently uses POGIL activities in her organic chemistry classes and has also combined POGIL with case studies in her GOB (General Organic and Biological Chemistry) and environmental studies courses. In addition, she has written a set of activities for introductory nutrition classes. (As these activities have yet to be endorsed by the POGIL Project, her partner has dubbed them AGILE: Andri’s Guided Inquiry Learning Experience.) Her involvement with the POGIL Project includes workshop facilitation, activity review & endorsement, conference planning (NCAPP), and mentorship (CS-POGIL). She was also a participant in the POGIL DBER (Discipline Based Education Research) Project, and she continues to collaborate on a study of teamwork in POGIL classrooms. She is currently working with strategic team 1E to establish an online resource of instructional approaches to support student success in POGIL/student-centered classrooms.

Andri earned her B.S. in chemistry from Yale University and her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Princeton University. Following postdoctoral training at Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts­–Amherst, she joined the faculty at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, where she is a Professor of Chemistry. She also briefly taught high school chemistry at a girl’s boarding school and worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a medicinal chemist doing research & development.