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Jennifer Hill

Natchitoches,LA

Summary

  • Professional educator with outstanding communication and instruction experience currently tenured at Northwestern State University looking for a part time adjunct position either online or face-to-face.
  • Adapts easily to different classroom settings and subjects.
  • Masterful at new teaching styles and concepts and can work within constraints of school guidelines and policies.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Professor

Northwestern State University
01.2016 - Current
  • Courses taught: Organic Chemistry I and II, Organic Chemistry Labs (I and II), General Chemistry I and II, General Chemistry labs (I and II), Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry for Nursing and Allied Health Majors, General Physical Science for non-majors (I and II)
  • Taught both online and face-to-face courses that students find challenging
  • Stepped in to teach courses in many clutch situations

Molecular Pharmacology Postdoctoral NIH Fellow

Harvard University Medical School, Professor Robert R. Rando
01.1995 - 01.1998
  • Utilized iterative in Vitro selection methodology to isolate RNA aptamers that specifically bind aminoglycoside antibiotics (such as Tobramycin) with high affinities
  • Synthesized and utilized a Tobramycin-EDTA analogue to help elucidate the binding site(s) of Tobramycin to the optimized RNA aptamers (through affinity cleavage and subsequent RNA sequence analysis)
  • Carried out inhibition studies of the Tobramycin/RNA interaction with structurally related aminoglycoside antibiotics in order to establish specificity
  • Utilized enzymatic digestion of the optimized RNA construct to help elucidate the secondary structure of the RNA aptamer and to help establish the minimal structural requirements for high affinity binding to Tobramycin

Graduate Student with Professor

University of Virginia, Sidney M. Hecht
01.1989 - 01.1995
  • Synthesized a novel Bleomycin analogue designed to elucidate certain aspects of oxygen activation during DNA cleavage by this antibiotic, thought to be integral in the functioning of this anti-cancer drug
  • Synthesized the phenylalanyl-tRNAPhe analogue α−hydrazino-l-phenylalaninetRNAPhe as a molecular probe of the ribosomal A-site during translation
  • Synthesized the resulting unnatural dipeptides of such an altered translation reaction at the ribosome using the modified tRNAPhe and quantitatively analyzed the resulting dipeptide mixture by HPLC

Undergraduate Research Assistant

University Of Hawaii, Dr. Paul Scheuer
  • Department of Chemistry, with the Professor Paul J. Scheuer, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii
  • Natural product isolation and structure determination of compounds isolated from marine organisms, specifically marine sponges from the waters off the coast of the island of Oahu.

Chemist

Biogen Idec
01.1998 - 01.1999
  • Synthesized potential therapeutics for asthma in collaboration with Merck.

Science Teacher

Word Of God Academy, High School
01.2014 - 12.2015
  • Communicated with students and parents regarding academic progress, assignments, and behavior.
  • Cultivated positive relationships with students, parents and staff to optimize instruction and support learning outcomes.
  • Created interactive activities to engage student interest and curiosity in scientific concepts.
  • Coordinated and collaborated with other faculty members during lesson plan development.

Education

Ph.D - Chemistry

University of Virginia Charlottesville
1995

B.S - Chemistry

University of Hawaii Manoa
1988

Skills

  • Teaching multiple university-level chemistry and general physical sciences courses with attention to student-focused approach, especially General and Organic Chemistry and associated labs
  • Creating research topics in area of medicinal chemistry
  • Writing grants, awarded Louisiana Board of Regent Grant in 2018 for over $120,000
  • Advising university students

Accomplishments

  • Received Louisiana Board of Regent grant in Chemistry
  • NIH Fellow, 2 years at Harvard Medical School
  • Dupont Fellowship
  • O.C. Magistad Award of the Hawaii Section of the American Chemical Society awarded to the “Outstanding Senior in Chemistry at the University of Hawaii”
  • Giichi Fujimoto Scholarship for Outstanding Performance in Chemistry
  • Taught notoriously difficult classes while getting the majority of students through
  • Multi-step organic synthesis, including reaction analysis (TLC, HPLC), product isolation (prep TLC, crystallization, flash silica gel chromatography, reverse phase chromatography, etc.), and structure determination (NMR, mass spectral analysis, elemental analysis, melting
  • Natural Product Chemistry

Affiliations

American Chemical Society Member (2005-present), Currently Faculty Sponsor of Northwestern State University of Louisiana ACS Student Chapter

References

  • Dr. Fran Lemoine, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern State University
  • Dr. Chris Lyles, Director of STEM, Northwestern State University
  • Dr. Daniel Rivera, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern State University
  • Anna Dugas, Professor of Physics, Northwestern State University

Timeline

Associate Professor

Northwestern State University
01.2016 - Current

Science Teacher

Word Of God Academy, High School
01.2014 - 12.2015

Chemist

Biogen Idec
01.1998 - 01.1999

Molecular Pharmacology Postdoctoral NIH Fellow

Harvard University Medical School, Professor Robert R. Rando
01.1995 - 01.1998

Graduate Student with Professor

University of Virginia, Sidney M. Hecht
01.1989 - 01.1995

Undergraduate Research Assistant

University Of Hawaii, Dr. Paul Scheuer

Ph.D - Chemistry

University of Virginia Charlottesville

B.S - Chemistry

University of Hawaii Manoa

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