News and Announcements
Save The Date - May 31, 2013
Mark your calendars for the Parsons Hall Rededication to take place on May 31, 2013. The program is in development, but we’re hoping to offer a day that features a selection of presentations by alumni, a lovely lunch in the courtyard of Parsons, student poster presentations, an evening banquet and a tour of our renovated building! Here’s a little peak at some before and after photos.
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We are currently still in renovation mode, but some of us have moved into newly renovated parts of the building. The renovation will be complete in December 2012…not far away.
Please keep an eye out for new information on our website, and some of you will be receiving an email soon with more details of the Rededication. If you would like to be on our growing email list, please send an email to cindi.rohwer@unh.edu and we’ll add you in.
Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL)
Peer Led Team Learning is an instructional model for large college science courses whereby students who did well in the course in the past become study group facilitators for a group of eight students currently enrolled. Peer Leaders meet for one hour weekly with these students, leading a discussion of conceptual and quantitative chemistry problems. The Department of Chemistry at the University of New Hampshire has been utilizing this program in conjunction with the General Chemistry curriculum since 2000 to the benefit of over 200 students each semester. Since its inception at UNH, PLTL has supported several thousand students in Chem 403/404 and have trained more than 200 student leaders. Read more about the impact this program is having on the education of UNH students.
Where are they now?
Alumni from our undergraduate programs are embarking on new challenges in academia. For example, Orion Berryman, who received his BS degree in 2003, is a new Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Montana (http://www.cas.umt.edu/chemistry/ facultyDetails.cfm?ID=2056).
Christian Kastrup, who received his undergraduate degree from UNH in 2002, is starting his independent academic career at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (http://www.msl.ubc.ca/faculty/kastrup).
They join a number of recent graduate students, who have also taken the plunge into academia. Cory Theberge, who received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UNH in 2002, is Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Pharmacy program at the University of New England (http://www.une.edu/faculty/profiles/ctheberge.cfm).
John Osambo, Ph.D. in 2006, is a new faculty member at Colby Sawyer (http://www.colbysawyer.edu/academics/faculty/osambo.html).
The University of Cincinnati is called home by Assoc. Professor James Mack (http://www.artsci.uc.edu/collegemain/faculty_staff/ profile_details.aspx?ePID=ODMwMjI%3D) who earned his Ph.D. from UNH in 2000.
Karelle Aiken (Ph.D. 2005) (http://cosm.georgiasouthern.edu/chemistry/?p=about_karelleaiken) is on the faculty at Georgia Southern University.