Teaching and Education-Related Activity

Courses Taught

• Molecular Science CHM 101 (course for non-science majors)

• General Chemistry CHM 103/104

• General Chemistry Laboratory

• Advanced General Chemistry CHM 107

• Inorganic Chemistry CHM 202

• Advanced Inorganic Chemistry CHM 402 (lecture and lab)

• Instrumental Methods of Analysis CHM 414 (lecture and lab)

• Individual and Honors Study

Other Teaching-Related Activity

• Outreach Visits to DeWitt Clinton High School (Bronx, NYC), 2008-2011

• Semester-long Workshop on Teaching Writing Skills, 2008
• Summer Teaching and Learning Workshops, 2007

• Connecticut College Tempel Summer Institute on Technology in Teaching, 2001

• Development of Writing-Intensive Focus in CHM 402, ongoing from 2000

• Connecticut College Hewlett Teaching Fellows Program, 1998-99

• Connecticut College Educational Planning Committee, 1994-96

• Assistant Coach of Connecticut College Women's Volleyball, 1993-98

Chemical Education Publications and Presentations

• "Synthesis and Characterization of a Layered Manganese Oxide: Materials Chemistry for the Inorganic or Instrumental Methods Lab" Stanton Ching, Ram P. Neupane, Timothy P. Gray J. Chem. Ed. 2006, 83, 1674-1676.

• Presentation on Careers in Chemistry; University of Connecticut, September 30, 2003

• "Use of Advanced Instrumentation in General Chemistry" Poster presented at the Gordon Conference on Innovations in Teaching College Chemistry; June 30-July 5, 1996

• "Introduction of GC-MS Instrumentation in the General Chemistry Laboratory" Talk presented at the ACS National Meeting; Washington, DC; August 22, 1994

• "Cyclic Voltammetry with Ultramicroelectrodes" Ching, S.; Dudek, R. C.; Tabet, E. A. J. Chem. Ed. 1994, 71, 602-605.

Extramural Support for Chemical Education

• National Science Foundation - Major Research Instrumentation 2010 MRI-R2: Acquisition of Atomic Absorption Instrumentation for Multi-Disciplinary Undergraduate Research and Research Training (lead PI on interdisciplinary proposal with the Life Sciences)

• Howard Hughes Medical Institution - Connecticut College Teaching Initiatives 2006 Surface Area Analyzer for Teaching Materials Chemistry and Nanoscience

• National Science Foundation - Major Research Instrumentation 2003 Acquisition of a Transmission Electron Microscope for Multidisciplinary Research and Education (co-PI on interdisciplinary proposal with the Life Sciences)

• National Science Foundation - Major Research Instrumentation 2002 Powder X-ray Diffraction Instrumentation for Research and Research Training

• National Science Foundation - Improvement of Laboratory Instrumentation 1995 Scanning Electron Microscopy for Course Improvement in the Biological and Chemical Sciences (interdisciplinary proposal with Life Sciences)

• National Science Foundation - Improvement of Laboratory Instrumentation 1992 Curriculum Development in Chemistry Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry