Welcome to Two New Members to the OrganicERs Leadership Board

With plans to begin new initiatives and provide more service to the OrganicERs community, we have added two members to the leadership board. 

Matthew Casselman joins the board from the University of California, Riverside.  He obtained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Alexander Wei at Purdue University. Following his Ph.D. he was a postdoctoral research associate for Susan Odom and an instructor at the University of Kentucky.  His research is currently focused on active learning in large classes with diverse student populations.

Joshua Ring has been a past ALOC Workshop participant and his recent publication on specifications grading in the Journal of Chemical Education was highlighted in the previous newsletter. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Peter Crooks at the University of Kentucky in 2006.  He was a postdoctoral research associate for Smita Mohanty at Auburn University and joined Lenoir Rhyne University in 2008.