Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Stacey Lowery Bretz

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News in the Bretz Chemistry Education Research Group

July 2008
*Look for the Bretz group at the 20th BCCE from July 26-30

June 2008
*Manuscript published in The Science Teacher.
*Congratulations to Kathryn Nafziger who successfully defended her M.S. thesis. She will be teaching chemistry at Oak Hills HS in Cincinnati, OH.
*Manuscript published in The Chemical Educator.
*Welcome to Dr. David Sanabria-Rios from University of Puerto-Rico. David's post-doctoral appointment is funded through the Heanon Wilkins Fellowship program.

May 2008
*Madhu Mathew's website design used in our CHEMX research was featured in the Cincinnati Business Courier
*Congratulations to Mary O'Donnell for earning the Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry TA Award.
*Congratulations to Dr. Nathaniel Grove who graduated with his Ph.D. and will join Dr. Melanie Cooper at Clemson for a post-doc appointment.
*Congratulations to Mr. Michael Fay who graduated with his M.S. and will be a high school chemistry teacher at St. Henry High School in Kentucky.
*Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers Madhu Mathew, Beth Motter, and Alyssa Paloiaan who graduated from Miami with their bachelor's degrees.

April 2008

*Congratulations to Michael Fay - College of Arts & Science TA Award.
*Manuscript accepted in The Chemical Educator.
*Manuscript published in Chemistry Education Research and Practice.
*Nathaniel Grove successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.
*Dr. David Sanabria-Rios from University of Puerto-Rico will join us as a post-doctoral scholar in June 2008 through the
Heanon Wilkins Fellowship program.

*Congratulations to our NSF CER Doctoral Fellows:
        Michael Bindis, Baldwin Wallace College
        Ashley Coffelt, Missouri State University
        Larry Jackson, Murray-Wright High School
        Jana Jensen, Bethel College
Cynthia Luxford, Grand Valley State University
        Heather Stong, Brigham Young University Idaho
        Ana Vasquez, Gateway Early College High School
You can learn more about our doctoral fellows program here.

March 2008
*CER listserv is up and running
*Michael Fay successfully defended his master's thesis.
*Manuscript accepted for publication in Chemistry Education Research and Practice.
*Manuscript accepted for publication in The Science Teacher.