Teaching Interests

    My principal teaching responsibilities are in General Chemistry (Chem 121/122) and the physical chemistry sequence: Thermodynamics and Kinetics (Chem 341) and Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy (Chem 342). I have also taught a First-Year Seminar entitled Earth, Wind, and Fire: Chemistry and Society (FYS 103),  the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department's Junior/Senior Seminar (Chem 372/472), and Topics in Advanced Physical Chemistry (Chem 403).

    I am also involved in a campus-wide program to integrate use of symbolic computing (such as the programs Maple or Mathematica) into teaching. I have been using Maple in my physical chemistry courses, both for constructing "scripts" to illustrate physical ideas such as the van der Waals Equation of State or the Boltzmann Distribution of Speeds in a Gas and for direct student use in solving complex problems.