Kathleen S. Email and Phone Number

I taught a two semester course in algebra-based introductory physics for life science students, an upper level classical mechanics course and a sophomore-level mathematical methods course for physics majors, and an intermediate astronomy course for astronomy minors.I heavily modified the previous introductory physics curriculum to incorporate teaching techniques based on a rich history of education research in physics for life science students. The active learning strategies I implemented bring this two-semester course into the modern age of interdisciplinary STEM education.I incorporated additional active learning techniques into the pre-existing classical mechanics and mathematical methods curricula, drawing from successful iterations of the same courses conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder and California State University, Fullerton.I designed an intermediate astronomy course from the ground up with the purpose of improving students' scientific literacy, communication, and execution. I included assignments that blended observational astronomy with data analysis techniques, directly engaged students with recent scientific literature, and challenged them to communicate their literature findings in a plurality of formats.

On the customer service end, I conducted beer, growler, and merchandise sales at the taproom counter. I also waitstaffed the taproom, serving drinks, bussing tables and replacing empty kegs, and wrote the monthly brewery newsletter. On the production end, I cleaned and sanitized empty kegs, filled clean ones with new brews, carbonated them using a Brite tank, bottled beer, attached bottle labels, and drained trub from beer tanks. I was additionally responsible for balancing the brewery's accounts at the end of each month.

I offered weekly walk-in tutoring hours for students in data analysis, calculus I/II/III, mathematical probability, and foundations of abstract math.

I set up and took down laboratory equipment for interactive introductory physics lecture activities each week. I organized the department's physics lab equipment and created an equipment catalog system. The University lacked support for students in introductory physics classes; I took initiative and provided tutoring "office hours" to help physics students with homework and studying.

I processed and delivered mail to residence halls and University offices on campus. I also handled incoming packages from third party distributors and labelled official outgoing University batch mail.