Beyond VSEPR─The Significance of p-Orbital Conjugation in Determining the Hybridization | Journal of Chemical Education pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to visit Wake Forest to share my research probing Creativity in Organic Chemistry!

I received a rude email regarding my paper on hybridization because the emailer claimed hybridization doesn’t exist and I should have cited his work stating so. He believes in only teaching MO theory. Unfortunately education research is clouded with opinions that hinder progress.

Excited to be named a Judith Decker Prize finalist.

Such a great visit to Ohio state university. Truly a pleasure to visit such excellent chem ed colleagues and share my initial attempts at defining creativity in organic chemistry.

Excited to head to San Diego to give a seminar on my new creativity explorations at SDSU.

Meet Delilah. Usually I post only about work but she deserves the post!

New publication. Examining the effect of categorized versus uncategorized homework on test performance of general chemistry students - Read on degruyter.com/document/doi/1… De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

2024 has been productive. 11 papers submitted and 5 published with others pending. I gave four seminars and one invited talk for ACS. My book has been updated. I taught 2 new courses to put my total courses to 8 in four years. My course evaluations for the fall were 4.6/5.

New edition arrived with the new cover art!

Potentially looking to hire a chemistry education research consultant to aid for a few projects that will include excellent pay and authorship on publications. Reach out if interested or know of interest.

Submitted one of my two abstracts to pacifichem this am.

Prepping for my talk at the University of Arizona

Paper submitted. I have two papers to finish and that will complete my contribution to organic chemistry education. I am shifting to a new research area for my scholarship in August-closing the door at least in part on chemical education research not teaching

I would like to publish a preliminary study in which we probed creativity in organic chemistry. Any suggestions? The findings provide insights into things to consider. A psych journal felt it was too much science but liked it. I have >100 dats points.

New paper Kinetics and Thermodynamics: Analyzing Arguments Related to Reactions with Enolate Intermediates | Journal of Chemical Education pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

My creativity in organic chem article frontiersin.org/journals/educa…