Teaching and Learning Enhancement Center
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Merlyn (Merle) Schuh, Martin Professor of Chemistry (emeritus), Davidson College

Merlyn (Merle) Schuh earned a B.A. degree in Chemistry from the University of South Dakota and a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Indiana University. He taught first at Middlebury College and then at Davidson College during 1975-2008, where he was the Martin Professor of Chemistry (1988-2008). He served as chemistry department chair (1988-96) and is presently the Martin Professor of Chemistry (emeritus). He taught Principles of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Advanced Biochemistry and Biophysical Chemistry. He has supervised the research projects of over one hundred undergraduate students, seven of whom received a NSF three-year graduate school fellowship. His research has been supported by thirty-three research grants from agencies such as NSF, NIH, PRF, Research Corporation, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. His research interests include: 1) the use of fluorescence, phosphorescence and circular dichroism to study the folding/unfolding of globular proteins and 2) phosphorescent molecular cyclodextrin complexes for use in understanding intermolecular recognition and in developing molecular sensors, and 3) computational biochemistry. Over a third of his students have co-authored refereed publications with him. He did sabbatical research at Syracuse University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has reviewed NSF and PRF research grant proposals, refereed manuscripts for publication in several journals, organized symposia on undergraduate research, been an external evaluator of several chemistry departments, and edited and written questions for the GRE chemistry test. He was selected as a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Scholar/Fellow awardee during 1993-94. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Chemist Award for 1998 given by the North Carolina Institute of Chemists. He has been a council member of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) for nine years, is serving as the Chair of the Chemistry Division, and was named CUR Volunteer of the Year for 2008.

Dr. Kimberley Frederick, Associate Professor, Skidmore College

Kimberley Frederick was formerly an associate professor at the College of the Holy Cross and is now faculty at Skidmore
College in Sarasota, NY. She earned her B.A. (1991) from Lawrence University, WI and a Ph.D. (1996) from Purdue University in analytical chemistry. Previous to her position at Holy Cross, she held tenure at Whittier College, CA and a tenure-track
position at Maryville College, TN. Her research, which has
been funded by the National Science Foundation, the
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation and Research
Corporation, involves studying electroosmotic flow during
capillary electrophoretic separations. She also conducts
research in the area of forensic applications of Raman
spectroscopy. She has supervised 32 research students and
their efforts have resulted in publications in journals such as
Analytical Chemistry, Electrophoresis and Applied
Spectroscopy as well as presentations at national meetings
including the Pittsburgh Conference and the American
Chemical Society meeting. Her experience teaching
chemistry at three PUI colleges with varying levels of
research expectation/support has lead to several invited
talks about successful strategies for conducting
undergraduate research. Her teaching responsibilities
involve courses in general chemistry, instrumental analysis
and advanced analytical methods. In addition, she has
taught courses in environmental chemistry, forensics,
quantitative analysis, non-science major courses and
cross-disciplinary writing courses. Her curricular
development have been funded by the Department of
Defense, the Pittsburgh Conference and Merck/AAAS.