Dr. Marcy H. Towns is a Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. In 2017 she received both the ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry and the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She has over 80 publications, over 2300 citations, and over
100 international and national presentations. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Education, focusing on manuscripts pertaining to chemistry education research.
is a Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. In 2017 she received both the ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry and the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
She has over 80 publications, over 2300 citations, and over 100 international and national presentations. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Education, focusing on manuscripts pertaining to chemistry education research.
Dr. Kinsey Bain earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Bethel University in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 2017. Her doctoral work focused on student understanding of energy in the context of chemical reactions/processes. Concurrently, Kinsey also designed and led a National Science Foundation project that investigated student understanding and use of mathematics in the context of chemical kinetics. As a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University,
she presently leads a research team focused on transforming STEM education through faculty development. One effort of this project focuses on facilitating and supporting faculty by teaching about three-dimensional learning (an adaptation of the National Research Council's document, A
Framework for K-12 Science Education), developing and validating assessment tools, and implementing support structures (at MSU and other partner institutions). Another aspect of this project investigates the adoption and implementation of instructional innovation across different disciplines and department cultures, as well as the effect on student outcomes.
Jon-Marc G. Rodriguez earned a B.S. in Pharmacological Chemistry in 2014 and an M.S. in Chemistry at UC San Diego in 2016. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University. His research interests are situated at the interface between chemistry and mathematics, with the goal of learning more about students' reasoning to provide insight into how we can improve chemistry instruction and curriculum development. His research interests have led
him to take an interdisciplinary approach toward research, focusing on the learning challenges shared across disciplines. He is currently investigating students'
mathematical reasoning in chemical kinetics, and his dissertation focuses on students' graphical reasoning in enzyme kinetics.
