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Karen Dodd graduated with a first class MChem degree from the
University of Leeds in 2003. Karen is supported by EPSRC and
Hoffmann-La Roche. Her PhD has involved a 3 month European placement at
the Hoffmann-La Roche site in Basel, Switzerland.
Karen's PhD project was concerned with a total synthesis of the
natural product Hemibrevetoxin B. She focussed on exemplifying the key
step of our approach which is the first example of a desymmetrisation of
a centrosymmetric molecule by carbon-carbon bond formation.
Karen moved on to a postdoctoral position with Dr Darren Dixon at the University of Manchester. Publications with Professor Nelson:
I grew up in Columbia, SC and upstate New York. I have
family in SC and Virginia. I am of course a US citizen.
High School: Irmo
High School, Columbia, SC (top 1% in cumulative GPA of my
graduating class, top 3% nationally on PSAT) I
also attended E.L. Wright Elementary School in Columbia.
BS Chemistry University
of South Carolina, Columbia (where my parents still live), Magna Cum Laude,
Phi Beta Kappa, 3.8/4.0 GPA (2 computer classes short of chemistry /
computer science double major)
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, State
University of New York, Stony Brook
postdoctoral research
University of Wisconsin, Madison; Columbia University (NY,NY)
more than 10 years experience - all post Ph.D. as
a tenure track assistant professor
teaching: class sizes between 50 and
300 students, Organic Lecture (mostly for science majors), General
Chemistry Lecture (mostly for science majors), Organic Lab (using own
sole authored copyrighted lab textbook), General Chemistry Lab, graduate
level (PHD & MS students) Advanced Organic, Bioorganic and Organic Spectroscopy, Organometallic Chemistry
Here is the hyperlink to my
Teaching Evaluations at FMU (from
Spring 2014) To answer the question
about my authority (ability - Oh No, I am not just a little stupid girl
who barely knows how to write her name.) to teach a class in General
Chemistry with a PHD in Organic,
graduatelevelcoursework completed by Dr. Hahn:
PHD Organic, with additional 21 credit hoursin Inorganic, 12 credit hours in Analytical
(Most Chemistry PHD programs require 9 to 12 credit hours for a major in
a Chemistry sub area, Therefore I have enough graduate credit to claim
to have a triple major in the Chemistry sub areas of Organic, Inorganic
and Analytical Chemistry. General Chemistry is usually taught by
Chemistry PHDs with a sub area major of Inorganic or Analytical.)
research: research as
principal investigator with primarily undergraduate students (1) carbon
nanotube functionalization to make electrically conducting thin films -
new materials, solar energy collector (2) photodimerization of
thymine to bioorganically experimentally simulate the photodimerization reaction
implicated in skin cancer (3) stereoselective synthetic
methodology using organoaluminum catalysis and a zwitterionic effect in
a class of neurobiologically active natural products with potential
application as diagonostic or pharmaceuticals for diseases like
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Dr. Hahn's
Research Group Summer 07 at DSU as Assistant Professor: from left:
Nicole Morris, Dr. Juliet Hahn (Ruth was busily running NMR and was ...
Summary
Lecturer at Southern Illinois University is a non tenure track position.
I am an excellent communicator & user friendly teacher with about 10
years of experience (post Ph.D.) teaching organic and general chemistry
lectures of 15 to 300 students. I have also taught Organic Labs using
my own sole author copyrighted lab book. (supervised one to two
undergraduate TA and about 5 undergraduate research students per
semester in about the last 4 years of teaching)
I have increased enrollment and student satisfaction in General and
Organic chemistry classes. (documentation - see teaching evaluations)
Most students decide that chemistry (science, medical school,
engineering, … etc.) is not for them in General & Organic classes. I
can change that! I have some innovative teaching methods and ideas
which are appropriate for educational research proposals. I have
experience teaching a wide variety of students (95% white, 85% African
American, first generation economically disadvantaged students, honor’s
students). Because I teach interactively by fitting myself to the
students, I can make the most boring chemistry interesting &
exciting to the most disinterested, unprepared, unmotivated students and
to the best students. [I increased classroom enrollment in similar or
parallel credit classes by as much as 10 times the normal enrollment at a
number of different universities as professor and visiting professor.]
research: 4 principal investigator research projects continuing (a)
carbon nanotube functionalization / potential solar energy collector (b)
experimental/synthetic bioorganically modeling the photodimerization of
thymine / skin cancer (c) stereoselective synthetic methodology in a
cocaine analog, synthesis of pharmaceuticals for neorobiological
diseases like alzheimers and parkinsons (d) education: effectively
teaching large lecture & training students with limited science back
ground to do research quickly
Specialties:teaching sophomore
college level Organic Chemistry lecture, freshman college level General
Chemistry lecture, wrote own sole authored copyrighted organic lab
textbook
tenure track assistant professor position:
taught Organic Chemistry lecture (~ 50 students) & lab, General Chemistry lecture, Introductory Chemistry;
All of these research projects will be continued into a future faculty
positions since these are all projects with me as the sole principal
investigator. None of these projects are staying at my former (DSU)
faculty position. Have research projects, will travel anywhere for new
job. (a) functionalized carbon nanotubes with applications solar energy,
new semiconducting & electrically conducting materials (b)
photodimerization of thymine to simulate reaction implicated in skin
cancer (c) stereoselective synthetic organic methodology in tropanes
potential pharmaceuticals for Alzheimer's disease (d) educational
research: teaching large lectures effectively and training research
students with limited chemistry to do chemistry research quickly
tenure
track assistant professor - taught Organic Lectures (~50
students/class), Organic Lab using lab book which I wrote (~50 to 150
students)
research as principal iinvestigator (a) photodimerization of a thymine
derivative to simulate the photodimerization implicated in skin cancer
(b) synthetic methodology in the stereoselective synthesis of a cocaine
derivative using organoaluminum catalysis and a zwitterionic effect
[same research projects as projects (b) & (c) under DSU research]
Doing Research with FMU students at USC, Columbia in host lab:
Ashley Bird (biology major, chemistry minor, senior), Melanie Thomas
(biology major, chemistry minor, premed, junior) and Dr. Juliet Hahn
(chemistry major BS from USC, Columbia, chemistry doctorate - SUNY,
Stony Brook, postdoctoral research Columbia Univeristy, NY and
University of Wisconsin, Madison) June 2014
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