by Julie Pollock | Dec 13, 2016 | Academia, Blog, Lab Thoughts, Teaching
Another semester done! This semester flew by in a whirlwind of new biochemistry lab experiments, attempting to be in 19 places at once advising the lab projects, preparing assignments and exams for intro organic, grading, committee meetings, and trying to stay up...
by Julie Pollock | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog, Events, Lab Thoughts, Research
This past weekend the Pollock lab members gathered for the annual end of the fall semester slash holiday party. It was great to see the soon-to-be-graduates interacting with the members joining this spring. You can see the size has grown quite big as we have that...
by Julie Pollock | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Conferences, Events, Research
Two weeks ago the Pollock lab traveled to Columbia, SC to attend and present at the Southeastern Regional Conference of the American Chemical Society. If I’m being honest, I was excited and worried about our first set of presentations off-campus. The lab work is...
by Julie Pollock | Oct 6, 2016 | Academia, Blog, Teaching
This semester is my first time teaching the first semester of organic chemistry lecture at UR. That also means it is my first time teaching at an “introductory” level here. We have a one semester general chemistry course and then the students jump into...
by Julie Pollock | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Conferences, Events, Research
Two Pollock Lab students, Kiana and Maddie, presented their summer research at the HHMI Science Symposium at UR last Friday. Way to...
by Julie Pollock | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog, Department, Teaching
Dr. Bill Myers — a significant presence in the chemistry department at the University of Richmond for 43 years — retired in spring 2016 — left this world last week. I thank you for your thoughtful questions during my interview, your enthusiastic...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 23, 2016 | Academia, Teaching
A new semester, another year. The students have moved in, the textbooks have been opened, and the classes have begun. Yesterday was the first day of my third year as a professor (how is that possible?) and my first class as an instructor of organic chemistry (CHEM...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 12, 2016 | Publications, Research
When you’ve been in research a long time, you have your favorite journals– the ones that you always read the table of contents when they come out and put a number of their articles in your “to-read” pile. Now as a professor, my...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 10, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
Summer research #2 is finished! Here are some of the thoughts running through my mind. How is it already August 10? This summer flew by. We made progress on all of the projects despite running into some complications (synthesis yields low, DNA sequencing...
by Julie Pollock | Jul 11, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
One of the most difficult things about starting your own research lab (well, actually starting research in any new location) is getting new protocols up and running. You organize everything as you have done before, work meticulously through the steps of an established...
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