Semester “Break”

by | 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...

Holiday Party 2016

by | 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...

SERMACS 2016

by | 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...

A fine line

by | 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...