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Aggregated student evaluation of overall quality as an instructor for 2017-2021 respondents (194 total).

College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence from The Ohio State University, Apr. 2022 [Link to news article]
John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching from The Ohio State University, May 2020 [Link to news article]

Over 190 student evaluations from 2017-2021 rate me as 96.4% excellent in overall quality.
- Complete datasets (including anonymous student comments) are available to view from Ohio State (2019-2021) here and Wright State (2017-2019) here.
RateMyProfessors [Link] rates me as 5/5 for quality.

Course Materials [Representative Selection]

My Guide to Success in Chemistry [Link] was written to provide time-tested advice to new chemistry students with the hope to point them towards habits conducive to success—and to ease their nerves for a subject that has a reputation for being difficult.
The Honors General Chemistry courses I taught used Chemical Principles by Atkins/Jones/Laverman, which explores titration calculations with a simplified version of the systematic treatment of equilibrium. This approach was always challenging for students at first, so I prepared a Titration Calculation Handout [Link] that complements the examples in the text by walking students through more complicated equilibria in greater detail.
The Colorful Chemistry of Transition Metals [Link] covers my favorite topic in chemistry—transition metals—and was created in response to student feedback requesting something to help bridge the gap between general and inorganic chemistry courses.

The Titration Calculator [Link] uses systematic treatment of equilibrium to generate data for titration curves as a function of analyte concentration, volume, and acid dissociation constant(s) for a variety of titration scenarios. This is particularly useful to prepare figures for lecture slides that depict, for example, a series of titration curves that illustrate how the buffer region changes with pKa. (This resource is also useful for generating titration curves for activities/exams!)
Related to the titration calculator above is the Fractional Composition Calculator [Link], which tracks the fractional composition (ɑ) of an acid and its conjugate base(s) as a function of pH. This is extremely useful to help students understand the principal species in solution at particular points in a titration.
The Excel Library of Elementary Reactions [Link] shows a variety of elementary reactions and plots the concentration profiles of the reactant, product, and any intermediate(s) as a function of time. Students can change initial concentration(s) and rate coefficient(s) for the reactions or step(s) therein to illustrate how concentrations would respond to those changes.
- I always pair this with the Summary of Kinetic Rate Laws handout [Link].

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