Associate Professor of Chemistry    

EDUCATION

Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Ph.D. in Biochemistry awarded 1996
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Central College, Pella, Iowa
Bachelor of Arts awarded Cum Laude, 1992
Major field of study:  Chemistry
Minor:  Biology

the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa    
Attended August 1986 - December 1987
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR
June 1999 - present

• Introductory Chemistry (General, Organic, and Biochem) (CH104, 105, and 106)
• Organic Chemistry (CH241, 242, 243)
• Physical Science:  Chemistry (GS105)

Oregon State University-Cascades Campus    

• Biochemistry (CH360)
• Organic Chemistry (CH331, 335, 336, and labs 332, 337)
• Analytical Chemistry (CH399)

Other Professional Activities:

• Research:  Mt. Bachelor Observatory, for Staci Simonich, Asst. Prof. of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, and Dan Jaffe, Prof. of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry, University of Washington-Bothell
• Green Chemistry in Education Workshop participant, University of Oregon, summer 2003
• Author, Instructor's CD-ROM, Fundamentals of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, 4/e, Prentice Hall
• Summer research 2002:  Cloning and Expression of Human Dopamine-beta-monooxygenase with Michele McGuirl, Univeristy of Montana, Missoula
• Montana BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) conference, summer 2002
• Summer research 2001:  Purification of Mutant Forms of Amicyanin with Michele McGuirl, Univeristy of Montana, Missoula
• Chemistry In Context NSF Chautauqua workshop participant, summer 2000

Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
August 1996 - May 1999

• General Chemistry I and II with laboratory (CHM 120, 121)
• Nutrition (CHM 110)
• Quantitative Analysis (CHM 214)
• Biochemistry (CHM 310)
• The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things (CHM 190)

Supervised Courses (seminars):

• Forensic Chemistry (CHM 190)
• Pharmaceuticals:  their manufacture and design (CHM 390)

Other Professional Activities:

• research 1997-1999:  Chicago Botanic Garden, Genetic Characterization of Rare Plants by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, with Dr. Kayri Havens  
• National Operation Chemistry, of the American Chemical Society
  a program designed to train educator teams to give activity-based chemistry workshops to elementary school teachers.
• Teaching Chemistry in the Middle Grades
  presented workshop for middle school teachers as part of the Museum Science Endorsement Program, Chicago Botanic Garden
• Expanding Your Horizons:  a national program designed to encourage junior-high school students in science, through hands-on activities and personal contact with women scientists. presenter 1997, 1998

Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

• Instructor, Biochemistry (BCHM 340)
• Expanding Your Horizons presenter, hosted and sponsored by Montana State University
  1994, 1995

 PRESENTATIONS

• Green General, Organic and Biological (GOB) Chemistry: an opportunity for reform, 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Indiana University Bloomington, IN  July 2008.

• Influence of Asian and Western United States Urban Areas and Fires on the Atmospheric Transport of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Fluorotelomer Alcohols in the Western United States
  Toby Primbs, Arkadiusz Piekarz, Glenn Wilson, David Schmedding, Carol Higginbotham, Jennifer Field, and Staci Massey Simonich
  Environ. Sci. Technol.; 2008; ASAP Web Release Date: 02-Feb-2008; (Article) DOI: 10.1021/es702160d

• Trans-Pacific and Regional Atmospheric Transport of Anthropogenic Semivolatile Organic Compounds to Mt. Bachelor Observatory, U.S.A. from Spring 2004 to Spring 2006, Toby Primbs, Staci Simonich, Glenn Wilson, Dan Jaffe, Carol Higginbotham, 2006 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2006

• Bringing Community College Faculty to the Table to Improve Science Education for All, W. Bradley Kincaid, Jeanne Narum,Theo Koupelis, Walter Shriner, Leah Adams-Curtis, Nkechi Agwu, Liz Dorland, Daphne Figueroa,Linnea Fletcher,Laura Guertin, Carol Higginbotham,Tom Higgins, Eileen Lewis,John Oakes, J.B. Sharma, Susan Shih, PKAL  2006 F21 Assembly Resources

• Trans-Pacific atmospheric transport of PBTs from Asia to the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.A. in spring 2006, Toby Primbs, David Schmedding, Glenn Wilson, Carol Higginbotham, Staci Simonich, 232nd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, September 2006

• Poster Presentation:  Trans-pacific Atmospheric Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Other Anthropogenic Semivolatile Organic Compounds to a High-Elevation Site in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A., Primbs, Wilson, Schmedding, Higginbotham, and Simonich, Dioxin 2005, Toronto

• Invited Presentation to Sigma Xi, Lake Forest Chapter, 1997:  Will Gene Therapy Cure Cystic Fibrosis?

• Poster Presentation and Abstract:  joint meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry, San Francisco, California, 1995: Interactions of Liposomes and Proteoliposomes with Cells in Culture

• Presentation and Abstract:  Montana Academy of Sciences, Helena, Montana, 1995:
  Fluorescence Studies on the Interactions of Liposomes with Cells in Culture 

AFFILIATIONS

• American Chemical Society
• Sigma Xi
• PKAL