Faculty
Professor Hutchison currently teaches in the Green Organic Chemistry Laboratory sequence that he and Professor Doxsee launched in the Fall of 1998. He is active in the green chemistry community and is working to establish a center for green chemistry research and education on the UO campus. His research group explores new methods for assembly of electronic materials from chemical building blocks, including greener methods based on biomolecule templating. Students within the Hutchison lab routinely participate in the development and implementation of the Green Organic Chemistry curriculum.
Professor Hutchison began developing the Chemistry Department's Green Organic Chemistry Laboratory curriculum during the Summer of 1997. During the last three years he has worked with Prof. Doxsee and graduate students (Scott Reed, Marvin Warner and Brad Wan) to design, implement and optimize experiments and lecture materials for the new curriculum. The results of these efforts are described in more detail throughout this website. One exemplary experiment resulting from this effort will soon be published in the Journal of Chemical Education. Other experiments are currently being written up for dissemination. Hutchison and Doxsee are in the process of preparing materials for publication in a laboratory manual/text.Professor Doxsee has worked on the green chemistry lab project with Jim Hutchison and graduate students. He has also worked to develop the green chemistry center concept. In the Doxsee lab, student Brad Wan worked with Scott Reed (Hutchison lab) to develop green experiments appropriate for an instructional setting.
Professor Deb Exton is a tenured instructor who has successfully integrated green chemistry concepts into her General Chemistry class. Student use more benign chemicals in their reactions, creating less waste in this popular entry-level chemistry class. See Inquiry for more on Dr. Exton's class.
Dave Johnson, Dave Tyler, Cathy Page
Professors Johnson, Tyler and Page have been teach general chemistry with an environmental emphasis. The material covered in the course is the same as in the regular general chemistry course with an environmental/green chemistry emphasis. Because of strong student interest in the environment and environmental issues, the course attracts numerous students who might not normally take general chemistry.
Assistant Department Head Dr.Julie Haack has developed GEMs, a database of green chemistry laboratory experiments and educational materials that will enable educators at all levels to easily identify and adopt specific experiments into their curriculum. This project supports efforts by the American Chemical Society, Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation to make green chemistry educational materials more accessible to chemical educators. This project provides for the identification, organization and dissemination of core "green chemistry" materials that can be utilized to support chemical education across chemical disciplines (e.g., general, organic, physical, analytical, materials, etc.) and among diverse educational audiences (e.g., K-12, colleges and universities). The database provides a brief description of the item and the criteria used for inclusion in the database. This database complements an existing annotated bibliography on green chemistry developed by John Warner. Since the database includes both published and original submissions, this project provides the infrastructure for collaborative development of this resource among the chemical education community.
Post-Doctoral Associates:
- Rob Gilbertson
Graduate Students:
- Scott Reed
- Reed is a former doctoral student in the Hutchison lab who helped design and optomize experiments to be used in the green organic chemistry lab. He recently won the prestigious Hancock Award for his contributions to the lab. Offered by the American Chemical Society to just one student per year, the award carries tremendous prestige for those working in the growing area of green chemistry - in part, because it was presented in conjunction with the Presidential Green Chemistry Award in Washington D.C. this summer.
- Marvin Warner
- Warner, a former doctoral student in the Hutchison lab, served as a teaching assistant for the green organic chemistry lab and worked with Professor Hutchison to smooth the wrinkles in curriculum.
- Brad Wan
- Wan, was a Ph.D. student in Mike Haley's lab, and worked with Professor Doxsee to develop experiments for the green organic chemistry lab.
- Gary Succaw
- Succaw was a doctoral student in Ken Doxsee's lab. He's been working on experiment development for the green organic chemistry lab.
- Kathryn Parent
- Kathryn Parent is a former doctoral student who worked to develop experiments and helped teach the lab for two terms while rotating in Cathy Page's lab.
Students who have completed the green organic chemistry lab, can now act as ambassadors for green chemistry.
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