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A Decade of Mentoring Female Chemistry and Biochemistry Majors into Academic Careers
Maureen Kendrick Murphy* and Doba D. Jackson, *Chair-Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Huntingdon College, 1500 East Fairview Ave., Montgomery, AL 36106-2148 [email protected]
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
MATERIALS AND METHODSData for this presentation were taken from enrollment figures from the Office of the Registrar at Huntingdon College, and from departmental class rolls and graduation programs from 1999-2010. Number and gender of majors from the classes of 2011, 2012,and 2013 were taken from the advising database at Huntingdon College. Placement of women students in Ph. D. programs was tracked yearly by the department chair. Academic positions of women alumni in chemistry and biochemistry was verified through the Office of Alumni Affairs and the department chair.
RESULTS
DATA AND GRAPHS RESULTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the National Science Foundation-supported ADVANCE Auburn “Small Wins” program for sponsoring the workshop for this
presentation.
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A decade of mentoring Huntingdon female chemistry and biochemistry majors into full-time academic positions is reviewed with respect to a “jump-start” program. The “jump-start” program at Huntingdon is one in which Huntingdon female chemistry and biochemistry majors are directly recruited as juniors or first-semester seniors from outstanding high schools in the state, advised into the most advanced and intensive curriculum during their first year at Huntingdon, and accelerated in their career with respect to early research participation, publication, and presentation at professional meetings. Some of the goals of the “jump start” program are to increase the number of women in academic chemistry and science positions in the U.S. and to accelerate women’s quest to tenure.
Huntingdon College was chartered on February 2, 1854, as "Tuskegee Female College" by the Alabama State Legislature and Governor John A. Winston. In 1872 the name was changed to "Alabama Conference Female College" as it is now affiliated with the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. A decision was made in the late 19th century to move the campus to a larger city. The college, renamed the "Woman's College of Alabama" relocated in 1910 to a 58 acre area in the Cloverdale section of Montgomery.The college admitted its first male student in 1934 and changed its name the next year to Huntingdon College in honor of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, a notable supporter of Methodism in Great Britain.
Since its inception, the training of Huntingdon women in the basic sciences has been a key part of a Huntingdon degree. Historically,Huntingdon College has always graduated a large number of womenchemistry majors [1]. Today, more than65% of the 75 chemistry and biochemistrymajors at Huntingdon are women [2].
Since 1983, Huntingdon College has hired full-time womenPh.D. faculty in its Department of Chemistry. In 2005, the department added a biochemistry major. Dr. Maureen K. Murphy(Huntingdon Chemistry, Class of 1978) has served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry for the past six years, and is one of three full-time professors of chemistry hired at Huntingdon since 1998.
The most recent annual survey (2009-2010) of chemistry departments [3] reveals that women now comprise 17% of chemistry department faculty amongst the 50 U.S. chemistry departments that spend the most on research.
Huntingdon Women Majors in Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Dr. Christine R. WhitlockProfessor & Assistant ChairDepartment of ChemistryGeorgia Southern UniversityOrganic Chemistry B.A. Huntingdon College Ph.D. The University of Alabama E-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Carolyn SimmonsAssistant ProfessorDepartment of ChemistrySpring Hill CollegeAnalytical Chemistry B.A. Huntingdon College Ph.D. Florida State University E-mail: [email protected]
1. Office of Assessment & Institutional Research, Huntingdon College2. Huntingdon Department of Chemistry enrollment records, Office of the Registrar, 2009-2010.3. Linda R. Raber, Chemical & Engineering News, Vol.88, no. 9, March 1, 2010, pages 42-43.
Grad. Year Name Ph.D. or M.S. Academic Position
1999 Cynthia Sales M.S. UNC-Greensboro
Rutgers-New Brunswick-Asst. Prof.
2000 Amanda Taylor Nakima Vizier
M.A.T. Lewis & Clark College M.S. Indiana.
Portland City Schools, Oregon St. Mary’s Notre Dame-Asst. Prof.
2001 Carolyn Simmons Heather Fuller
Ph.D. Florida State J.D. Washington Univ.-St. Louis, MO
Asst. Prof. Chemistry-Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL Women and the Law Professor-U. Houston
2002 Joni Bettis M.S. Troy University
High School Teacher-Gadsden City Schools, AL
2004 Amanda Ousley Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
High School Teacher in area
2005 Leah Cuthriell Leah Nesbitt
M.S. Univ. Tenn. Ph.D. Univ. Cincinnatti Medical Center
High School Teacher-Memphis, TN Postodoctoral Fellow in Immunobiology
2006 Audrey Krumbach D.Div. Candler School of Theology
Asst. Prof. Oxford College (GA)
2007 Shannon Cheney M.S. AUM UMS-Wright Preparatory School, Mobile, AL
2008 Rachel McKinney Ph.D. Duke Univ. In graduate school 2009 Felecia Gulledge M.S. in progress High School
Teacher-Hewitt-Trussville, AL
2010 Angelica Julian M.S. Forensic Science-Univ. New Haven
In graduate school
Percentage Women Chemistry & Biochemistry Majors Huntingdon College 1999-2013, MEAN=65%
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Chelley Lawson (Biochem., Class of 2013) presents research with biochemistry professor Dr. Doba Jackson at the 2010 Alabama Academy of Sciences meeting in Huntsville, AL.
“JUMP START” Program for Women Majors in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
1. Meet FY students at summer orientation; register for Gen. Chem., labs, and Calculus I, if possible. Introduce students to possible research projects.
2. Recruit women from outstanding high schools.
3. Monitor academic progress closely. Encourage women to apply to DOE Nuclear Summer School, the Post-Baccalaureate Program at Los Alamos National Lab, summer NSF-REU sponsored research and other summer research experiences.
4. Enroll students in Chem 385:Research in Chemistry & Biochemistry in junior year; carefully select project and have students ready to present at a local, state, and/or national meetings. Submit suitable research for publication.
5. Take students on tours of Ph.D. programs (Indiana Univ., Tulane Univ., Univ. Memphis, Vanderbilt Univ.); mentor through application process. Follow Ph.D. progress and mentor throughout. Help with postdoctoral/first academic appointment applications. Continue mentoring process through first teaching position and tenure and promotion. Serve as external tenure/promotion reviewer.
13 First-Year Huntingdon Women Chemistry & Biochemistry Majors Entering the “Jump-Start” Program During
2009-2010Caroline Baldwin Brittney Calma Nicole Dansereau Paige Lathem Tori McNeal Bryanna Page Rami Herrera Bailey Hales Amberly Dearmon Angelica Edwards
Cristin Buentello Victoria Hurd Chasity Ward
Chemistry majors present research at the 2010 Research & Creative Activity and Nano-Biology Symposium, ASU.
Dr. Maureen Murphy and students at the 2nd Annual White Coat Ceremony at Huntingdon to present white laboratory coats to new first-year majors and seniors in October 2009.
Women chemistry/biochemistry majors with graduate degrees 1999-2010. This group represents 24.6% of all majors during this period. The majority of women
in our program enter professional schools in the health sciences, especially Pharm.D. programs.
SOME HUNTINGDON ALUMNI WHO SERVE AS WOMEN CHEMISTRY PROFESSORS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S.