Sally Hunnicutt
Sally earned her BA in chemistry and science education at Duke University and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati. After starting her career at the University of Dayton Department of Chemistry, she joined the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she is Professor and Associate Chair. Sally’s research interests relate to the creation, use, and impacts of guided inquiry in different classroom environments, especially revising physical chemistry laboratory experiments to incorporate guided inquiry and examining the effects of those changes on faculty and students. She has been heavily involved with The POGIL Project since its early days. She received the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences Teaching Award in 2012 and the VCU University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015. She and her husband, Mike, have two sons, Patrick and Nathan, and they enjoy hiking, climbing, mountain biking, and running.
Alex Grushow
Alex is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Since his days as an undergraduate he has been fascinated by intermolecular forces and has published papers on molecules held together by hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, dative bonding and ion-molecule interactions. He has worked as a Program Director for the National Science Foundation and has worked in chemistry examination development for both ETS and the ACS Examinations Institute. He has been heavily involved in innovating the teaching of physical chemistry - starting in graduate school. He was a member of the Physical Chemistry Online Consortium (PCOL) and an early adopter of POGIL. It has been downhill ever since.
Marc Muñiz
Marc received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from North Carolina State University, and is currently an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. He works within the Cyberlearning Innovation Research Center (CIRC) to research the efficacy of an innovative suite of teaching and learning tools. Marc’s teaching background includes general chemistry, physical chemistry, physical chemistry laboratory. His primary research focus is on student learning outcomes in a variety of course contexts, including general and physical chemistry. Marc enjoys using the results of his research, as well as research in DBER, cognitive science, and science education literature, to improve learning outcomes in general and physical chemistry classroom and laboratory environments alike
Rob Whitnell
Rob is Professor of Chemistry and Chair of Computing Technology and Information Systems at Guilford College. His research background includes quantum mechanical computations of high energy vibrational states of small molecules, molecular dynamics studies of fast vibrational relaxation of molecules in polar solvents, exploration of Monte Carlo methods for predicting peptide and protein conformation, and the use of simulation to explore the role of water molecules in antibody-antigen interactions. He has served in a number of administrative and faculty leadership roles at Guilford, including Director of Information Technology & Services, Director of Institutional Research, and Clerk of the Faculty. Rob has used POGIL in his classes since 2004 with a team of faculty at Guilford who use guided-inquiry methods throughout the chemistry curriculum.