Dan received a BA degree in chemistry at Colby College in 1968. He received his Ph. D. in organic chemistry from Penn State University in 1974. In 2015, Dan retired after 41 years of undergraduate teaching and research at Moravian University, as well as at Colby, Barnard, Skidmore, Kenyon and...
Shannon Wachowski is currently serving as Science and C/VE Consultant for the Wyoming Department of Education. In her 14-year career as an educator, Shannon has taught a variety of science and math classes in rural high school settings as well as facilitated professional development for teachers...
What is POGIL-PCL? POGIL-PCL (POGIL for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory) represents a community of more than 150 physical chemistry lab course instructors involved in the development and implementation of experiments for this course. POGIL-PCL also comprises a set of experiments developed using...
Dr. An-Phong Le grew up in Illinois and earned a B.S. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in chemistry, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the faculty at Florida Southern College in 2011, where he is served as the Dr. John A. Leighty Endowed Chair in Chemistry and...
Dr. Teresa Bixby received a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry and Physics from Susquehanna University in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2009. After a 3-year post-doctoral research fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Dr. Bixby began a...
POGIL Overview References Moog, R.S. (2014). Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. In M. A. McDaniel, R. F. Frey, S. M. Fitzpatrick, & H. L. Roediger (Eds.), Integrating cognitive science with innovative teaching in STEM disciplines. St. Louis: Washington University in St. Louis Libraries....
Suzanne Ruder received a B.A. in chemistry in 1982 from the College of St. Benedict-St. John’s University (Minnesota) and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Washington State University in 1986. She then went to Brown University as a post-doctoral fellow under the direction of Kathlyn Parker. In 1988...
Chair, 2023 NCAPP Dr. Joyce Easter is Dean of the Batten Honors College of Virginia Wesleyan University and Professor of Chemistry. She received her B.S. in Biology from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Duke University. After five years at Eastern Illinois University, she...
Christopher F. Bauer is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Hampshire. His research addresses student misconceptions, attitudes about learning and courses, discovery-based chemistry curricula, and faculty beliefs and practice. He has presented many workshops on teaching and learning...
Selected Publications “POGIL in Chemistry Courses at a Large Urban University: A Case Study,” S. M. Ruder and S. S. Hunnicutt in POGIL: Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (ACS Symposium Series), R. S. Moog and J. N. Spencer, Eds.; Oxford University Press: New York, 2008. Suzanne...