LAURIE SHAFFER STARKEY

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Department of Chemistry (909) 869-3670

3801 West Temple Avenue Fax (909) 869-4344

Pomona, CA 91768 lsstarkey@csupomona.edu

Education

University of California, Los Angeles 1991 – 1996

Candidate in Philosophy, September 1993

Doctor of Philosophy, September 1996

Research Advisor: Professor Michael E. Jung

University of Connecticut, Storrs 1987 – 1991

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, May 1991

Graduated Summa Cum Laude

President, Student Affiliates of the ACS

Honors and Awards

Science Council Advisor of the Year Award, Cal Poly Pomona 2001

College of Science Distinguished Teaching Award, Cal Poly Pomona 1999/00

Dissertation Year Fellow, UCLA 1995/96

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UCLA 1992

The University of Connecticut Dean's List (every semester) 1987 – 1991

Phi Lambda Upsilon, National Honorary Chemical Society 1990

Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society 1989

Scholarship from Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut 1987

Experience

Professor September 2007 – present

Department of Chemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

• Teaching Organic lecture and laboratory courses, including Organic Synthesis

• creating and implementing online laboratory tutorials (o-chem techniques)

• designing and maintaining Blackboard online prelab quizzes

• Cal Poly Pomona administrator for Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)

Associate Professor September 2002 – September 2007

Department of Chemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Assistant Professor September 1996 – September 2002

Department of Chemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Graduate Research Associate June 1993 – June 1996

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

• worked toward the synthesis of biologically active natural products

• Developed new methodology for organic synthesis

Teaching Associate September 1991 – June 1993

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

• Taught undergraduate organic chemistry discussion and laboratory sections

• Trained, evaluated, counseled first year teaching assistants as TA Coordinator 1992

• Designed and conducted workshops at the 1993, 1994 and 1995 UCLA

Campus wide TA Training Conferences as TA Coordinator

Research Intern May – August 1991

May – August 1990

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut

• Synthesized new drug candidates for central nervous system disorders

Research Intern May – August 1989

Chesebrough-Pond's, Trumbull, Connecticut

• Developed and implemented several new testing procedures

• Created time-saving computer programs to process the data obtained,

in efforts to establish a database

Publications and Presentations

"Online Laboratory Demonstrations: Design, Implementation & Impact." Starkey, L. S. A talk presented at the 235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, April 2008.

"Using Online Quizzes to Improve Student Learning." Starkey, L. S. A talk presented at the 235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, April 2008.

"Calibrated Peer Review (CPR): Getting the Most Out of a Writing Assignment." Presented seminars and workshops for faculty, 2002-2007.

Presented seminars and workshops for Cal Poly Pomona faculty, 2002, "Calibrated Peer ReviewÔ (CPR): Getting the Most Out of a Writing Assignment"

Presentation at the 221st American Chemical Society Nat'l Meeting in San Diego, April 2001, "Using Modern Tools to Update the Organic Chemistry Laboratory."

Poster presentation at the 219th American Chemical Society Nat'l Meeting in San Francisco, March 2000, "Dipeptide Synthesis: a Multi-Step Transformation for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory."

Presentation at the 218th American Chemical Society Nat'l Meeting in New Orleans, August 1999, "Mock Job Interviews to Assess Student Learning Outcomes."

L. S. Starkey, "The Use of Stick Figures to Visualize Fischer Projections." J. Chem. Ed., 2001, 78, 1486-1487.

Contributed an experimental protocol in the chapter, "Preparation and use of organozinc halides" by R. F. W. Jackson, in Organozinc Reagents: A Practical Approach (Eds. P. Knochel; P. Jones). Oxford: New York, 1999, pp. 37–56.

Jung, M.E.; Starkey, L.S. Tetrahedron 1997, 53, 8815–8824. "Total Synthesis of (S,S)-Isodityrosine."

Jung, M.E.; Starkey, L.S. Tetrahedron Lett. 1995, 36, 7363–7366. "New Preparation of o-Aryloxyphenols via Cyclohexenone Oxides."