Post by Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado

At Reed College, I strive to integrate teaching and research in meaningful ways. I am excited to share that work from my Physical Organic Chemistry course, designed as a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE), has been published in ChemPlusChem (Wiley)! In this course, students not only engage with core physical organic chemistry concepts, but also design and carry out an original research project. This achievement would not have been possible without the dedication of my teaching assistant Alaric Shaw, the creativity of students Ivan Bondarenko, Vanshika Bhaniramka, Alex West, and Beckman Scholar Peter Gilbert, and contributions of collaborators Changan Li and Daniel Loya. Please check out our paper on property modulation in the solid state using fluorination! I look forward to continuing to develop sustainable models of scholarship in the classroom! https://lnkd.in/g5QpBkwt