NANSLO Partners / Discipline Panels

Chemistry Discipline Panel

Each discipline panel contains members representing a balance among the two-year and four-year schools involved in the project.  The members will participate in a two-day workshop in late spring 2011 to review the chemistry lab curriculum from BCcampus and Colorado Community College System and make recommendations for the RWSL equipment & kits needed to support it at CCCS. They will work together on an ongoing basis during the project via the project website and panel listserv. Each term the panel will convene by conference call to review student outcomes for those enrolled in the new online lab at CCCS and make recommendations for changes to it for the next term. The members will also provide recommendations for expanding the project to include other institutions thereby establishing the North American Network of Science Labs Online.

British Columbia

Patricia Aroca-Ouellette
Instructor
Langara College
paroca@langara.bc.ca

Patricia Aroca-Ouellette has worked at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C. for the past 13 years teaching first year general chemistry and second year physical chemistry courses. Previously, she worked at the University of Toronto as manager of their solid and liquid state NMR facility. She received her B.Sc. from the University of Windsor and her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.

Neil Meanwell
Instructor, Chemistry and Geoscience
Camosun College
meanwen@camosun.bc.ca

Neil Meanwell has been teaching chemistry for 25 years, initially at the University of Victoria and, since 1992, at Camosun College. He teaches a range of courses, from college prep right up to second year inorganic and physical chemistry. He developed and teaches an environmental chemistry course for the College’s Environmental Technology program. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Sheffield in the UK and spent several years conducting research in organometallic chemistry prior to becoming a teacher.
 

Colorado Community College System

Dan Branan
North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) Project Manager
Colorado Community College System
Daniel.Branan@cccs.edu

Dan Branan is the currently North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) Project Manager. He provides leadership and coordination for the many subject-area teams that work on this project. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of Chemistry (1996 – 99, 2004 – 2011), Co-Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (2005 – 2007) and Research Director for the Institute for Information Technology Applications (2005 – 2007) all at the USAF Academy. Branan received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of South Alabama, his M.S. in inorganic chemistry from the Ohio State University and Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Denver.

Shashi Unnithan
Chemistry Professor, and Chair of Natural, Applied, and Environmental Sciences
Front Range Community College
Shashi.unnithan@frontrange.edu

Shashi Unnithan is professor of chemistry at FRCC since 1996 and chair of the Science Department since 1999. Unnithan’s interests have been in chemistry education for the last 15 years. Unnithan has been an ACS member since 2000. She is interested in bringing community college faculty to participate in the ACS meetings. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Southwestern School of Medicine and University of Colorado, and as a scientist at Colorado State University. Unnithan has an MS in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Nebraska.

Satellite Campuses  

Qing Du
Instructor
Laramie County Community College
qdu@lccc.wy.edu

Qing Du has been a full-time chemistry and mathematics instructor at Laramie County Community College since 2007. She teaches General Chemistry I and II and Problem Solving courses. Previously, she held a similar position at Gillette College for four years and completed a postdoctoral research project at Boise State University. Du received her B.S. in chemistry from Ocean University of China, an M.S. and a Ph.D in environmental chemistry from Academia Sinica (Beijing), and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Lulea University of Technology (Sweden). She has coauthored several articles on particulate adsorption of heavy metals in aquatic systems.

Patricia Goodson
Lecturer, Sr ETT
University of Wyoming
pag@uwyo.edu

Patricia Goodson has been a member of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wyoming for over 20 years, where she teaches undergraduate general and organic chemistry courses.  Prior to her employment as an Academic Professional Lecturer at UW, she served as the departmental crystallographer.  Goodson received her B.S. in chemistry from the University of Alabama, her M.S. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wyoming (1990).

 C.W. (Bill) McLaughlin
Adjunct Professor
Montana State University-Bozeman
cmclaughlin@chemistry.montana.edu

C.W. (Bill) McLaughlin has taught chemistry for 42 years.  He currently is serving as an adjunct professor at Montana State University in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. In 2009 he received the MSU President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. He is the co-author of the Physical Science textbook with McGraw-Hill-Glencoe and author of the teacher ancillary materials for Prentice-Hall’s Analytical Chemistry textbook.  He is also the director of the Science Horizon’s Initiative for improving science education for Native Americans.  He annually presents science curriculum workshops and outreach activities for students. Bill received his    B. S. in science education from Northwest Missouri State University, an M.S. in chemistry from Kansas State University of Pittsburg and a Ph.D. in Analytical chemistry from the University of Nebraska.

Mark Seger
Lecturer in Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines
mseger@mines.edu