The University of Massachusetts Amherst

Contact details

Location

Integrated Sciences Building

661 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

341E

About

As director of Physical, Instrumental, and Analytical Laboratory Instruction, I am interested in developing labs that are relevant to the questions, methodologies, and technologies students will encounter in the future. The laboratory is full of cutting-edge technology, and I believe that student's exposure in an undergraduate setting helps prepare them for what they will encounter in research and industrial settings.

As a physical chemist, the optical properties of materials have held my attention, and I have investigated the optical properties of single molecules and small crystals.

As a scientist, encouraging underrepresented groups to pursue STEM career in all fields is important to me. To that end I have worked with teenagers and started to develop a curriculum for kindergartners.