SEI Director: Jackie Stewart
STLF: Jennifer Duis (emeritus)
Faculty: G. Bussiere, B. Cliff, G. Dake, N. Dryden, E, Grant, V. Monga, S. Nussbaum, L. Schafer, J. Sherman, R. Stoodley, M. Thachuck, N. Vered, P. Wassell, and D. Zendrowski
Former Consultant: Dave Pushkin
Students: Nicholas Mah, Samantha D'Souza (2010-2011); Ainge (Y. C.) Chang, Aalia Sachedina, James Zhou (2009-2010); Michael Carlson and Yuri Samozvanov (2008-2009)
The Chemistry CWSEI program started in 2008 and has concentrated on evaluation and redesign of the CHEM 123 lab – Physical and Organic Chemistry. The First Year Assessment sub-committee of the Chemistry Lab Committee is overseeing this project. The sub-committee members are: Brian Cliff (chair), Guillaume Bussiere, Ed Grant, Laurel Schafer, Vishaka Monga, Sophia Nussbaum, John Sherman, Robin Stoodley, Nancy Vered, Peter Wassell and Dana Zendrowski. In conjunction with these efforts, undergraduate laboratory revitalization for years 2 - 4 is ongoing in the department.
Jackie Stewart, former Skylight Affiliate and now the Departmental Director has been involved with the CWSEI since the start of the overall initiative in 2007 and has been doing substantial redesign of CHEM 233 Organic Chemistry for the Biological Sciences and working with the teaching teams in CHEM 121 and 202 to improve learning in those courses (independently funded by the department and TLEF).
In addition to CWSEI teaching initiatives, the department has undergone an independently funded external review of our 1st year chemistry program. Also, Mike Wolf, Derek Gates and Jackie Stewart have developed improved course support materials for CHEM 121 (tailored in-house textbook, homework sets, power point notes for instructors, etc.) independently supported by TLEF and Skylight. Funding for a similar in-house text for CHEM 123 has been secured. Additionally, seven interactive online tutorials have been developed and implemented over the past eight years to complement existing Chem 121 lab experiments as part of an ongoing co-operative between Sophia Nussbaum and the ChemCollective of Carnegie Mellon University. Funding from Skylight was used to develop yet another interactive tutorial and refine two existing tutorials with Carnegie Mellon.
