Teaching Experience

Courses Taught

1. General Chemistry I Lab at Stevenson University as adjunct (Fall 2025, Spring 2026, Fall 2026)
2. First-Year Seminar at UMass Amherst (Fall 2022), 2 sections of 17 students

First-Year Seminar

I was instructor of record for a self-designed first year seminar course for the Fall semester of 2022, entitled “Order and Chaos”. A key motivating topic of the course was the idea that atomic motion can seem chaotic, random, bizzare, and disconnected from the world we live in. Through some final, multi-week long group projects, the students explored ways that random atomic motion can give rise to emergent, stable properties. I also gave the students lots of time and practice writing, reading, speaking and listening to scientific storytelling.

Key topics for the course:

1. “Think like a scientist”
   • Scientific storytelling skills
   • Formulate scientific questions and mini research projects
   • Assessments included mini-storytelling writings/presentations, and a multi-week final project and presentation
2. “Hidden cirriculum” of college
   • Time-management and test-taking skills
   • What resources are available to help students?

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Teaching Philosophy

Guest Lectures

1. Molecular mechanics and additive protein force fields; UMass Chem 586 Statistical Mechanics
   • Feb 2020
2. (Guest moderator) Student-led discussion on AlphaFold2 Nature paper; Amherst College Biophysics Seminar
   • Mar 2023
3. Drug design and CADD in Cancer Biology; UMB Grad. Program in Life Science 665 Cancer Biology: From Basic Research to the Clinic
   • Sep 2026, Oct 2025, Oct 2024, Sep 2023