In the News

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

Naomi Lee

Northern Arizona University

Chemistry and Culture REActivities

Joslynn Lee

Fort Lewis College

Chemistry and Culture REActivities

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:

Christina Goudreau Collison

Professor of Chemistry

Rochester Institute of Technology

585-475-2634

cgcsch@rit.edu

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.