by Julie Pollock | Aug 20, 2020 | Academia, Announcements, Blog, Students, Teaching
I was honored yesterday to receive one of the 2020 Distinguished Educator Awards from the University of Richmond. Teaching and interacting with students at UR is what makes this job fulfilling. Although it was a little strange to receive it over Zoom, that is the way...
by Julie Pollock | May 5, 2020 | Blog, Teaching, The Conversation
If you know me, you know I geek out over the amazing biochemical process of oxygen transfer throughout the body. Hemoglobin is such a remarkable protein. I am excited to share my new article published on The Conversation on how this protein facilitates transfer of...
by Julie Pollock | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog, Students, Teaching
I’m back in the lecture classroom again this semester — I was on research leave Spring 2018 and have been teaching biochemistry labs and my chemical biology discussion-based course in Fall 2017/2018. I have two sections of the first semester of organic...
by Julie Pollock | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog, Teaching
I believe I’ve written about my advanced elective course (CHEM333, Chemical Biology) before. It has an interesting format where we touch on a variety of new techniques in the field of chemical biology and read recent articles where they are implemented. If you...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 31, 2018 | Academia, Blog, Teaching
With research leave last spring, Tuesday marked my first day in the classroom since last December. My schedule this year has my chemical biology class on T/R morning and experimental biochemistry lab on T/R afternoons. It has the potential to be great for research...
by Julie Pollock | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog, Teaching
If you have ever heard me talk about my biochemistry course, you have probably heard me talk about hemoglobin. Every semester I teach this course, I geek out to my students about this amazing protein. My voice gets more high pitched, I throw my hands in the air, and I...
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