In the News
Royal Society of Chemistry Prize
Colby News Article
https://news.colby.edu/story/innovative-sign-language-makes-chemistry-accessible/
Christina Goudreau Collison, "Inclusive teaching at your fingertips", Nat. Rev. Chem. 2023 doi.org/10.1038/s41570-023-00491-0
Christina Goudreau Collison, Lea Vacca Michel "Looking at your lab through a new lens", Nat Rev Chem. 2023 Dec; 7(12): 817-818. doi: 10.1038/s41570-023-00529-3
Christina Goudreau Collison, Dina L. Newman, Julia Qingli Biehler*, Micaela Nelson*, Paige O’Brien Daly*, Matthew Jackson*, Cameron Isaac*, Madeline Tebrugge*, Jason Anderson, Brian Edelbach, Douglas Tusch and Jeremy Alan Cody "Reformed Experimental Activities (REActivities): Gauging the Fidelity of Implementation in a Reformed Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory", J. Chem. Educ. 2022 doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00998
Lab Manual Textbooks
REActivities:
Organic Chemistry Lab Workbook
2019 (Second Edition) 252 Pages
Authors: Goudreau Collison, Cody, Anderson, Edelbach
ISBN: 978-1-59399-642-0
REActivities: Chemistry & Culture
Lab Workbook
2022 (First edition) 145 Pages
Authors: N. Lee, J. Lee, Genchev, Goudreau Collison
ISBN: 978-1-71147-067-2
Publications
Kaitlyn Clark*, Asma Sheikh*, Jennifer Swartzenberg, Ashley Gleason*, Cody Cummings*, Jonathan Dominguez*, Michelle Mailhot*, and Christina Goudreau Collison "Sign Language Incorporation in Chemistry Education (SLICE): Building a Lexicon to Support the Understanding of Organic Chemistry", J. Chem. Educ. 2021 99, 1, 122–128.
Christina G. Collison, Jeremy Cody, Thomas Kim, Jason Anderson, Brian Edelbach, William Marmor, Rodgers Kipsang, Charlie Ayotte, and Daniel Saviola, “Transforming the Organic Chemistry Lab Experience: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Reformed Experimental Activities (REActivities)” J. Chem. Educ. 2018, 95, 55-61.
Christina G. Collison, Jeremy Cody, Darren Smith, and Jennifer Swartzenberg, "Formalizing the First Day in an Organic Chemistry Laboratory Using a Studio-Based Approach" J. Chem. Ed. 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00226
Collison, C.G.; Cody, J.A.; Stanford, C., “An SN1-SN2 Lesson in an Organic Chemistry Lab Using a Studio-Based Approach” J. Chem. Educ. 2012 ,89, 6, 750-754.
REActivities Organic Team
Tina Goudreau Collison
Rochester Institute of Technology
PI and REActivities Founder
Jeremy Cody
Rochester Institute of Technology
REActivities Organic
Jason Anderson
Monroe Community College
REActivities Organic
Brian Edelbach
Monroe Community College
REActivities Organic
Chemistry and Culture Team
Jasmyn Genchev
Northeastern University
Chemistry and Culture REActivities
Tina Goudreau Collison
Rochester Institute of Technology
Chemistry and Culture REActivities
Sign Language Incorporation in Chemistry Education Team
Tina Goudreau Collison
SLICE content expert, PI /
Organic/General Chemistry
Jennifer Swartzenberg
SLICE content expert, Co-PI/
Organic/General Chemistry
Melody "Pepsi" Holmquist
SLICE content expert, Co-PI / Biochemistry/General Chemistry
Lea Michel
SLICE content expert, Co-PI / Biochemistry/ General Chemistry
SLICE Alumni Undergraduate Team Members
Asma Sheikh BS '19
ASL translator, SLICE team language creator and video signer / Undergraduate student
Kaitlyn Clark BS '20 MS '22
ASL translator, SLICE team language creator and video signer / Undergraduate student
Michelle Mailhot BS '20
ASL translator, SLICE team language creator and video signer / Undergraduate student
Jonathan Dominguez BS '20 MS '22
ASL translator, SLICE team language creator and video signer / Undergraduate student
Cody Cummings BS '20
ASL translator, SLICE team language creator and video signer / Undergraduate student
Ashley Gleeson BS '20
ASL translator, SLICE team language creator and video signer / Undergraduate student
Contact Information:
Professor of Chemistry
Rochester Institute of Technology
585-475-2634
The authors acknowledge our ancestors and their contributions to chemistry.
The REActivities team is grateful for the generous support of the National Science Foundation, Rochester Institute of Technology, the National Institutes of Health, the University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University, and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute for their generous support with our design and development of these materials.