Laura Muller Email and Phone Number

Duties and Responsibilities:• Coordinated Peer Academic Support Network (peer tutoring program) including hiring and managing a large staff of student employees• Communicated with faculty about peer tutoring• Assisted student workshop leaders with curriculum and pedagogical design• Worked with other units on campus around questions of diversity and inclusion particularly in the STEM+ fields• Researched questions around and interventions toward the relationship between quantitative skills and student success • Coordinated the First Year Experience workshop program for study skills development• Developed dialog, practice, reflection model for development of quantitative skill modules for facilitating skill building and transfer of skills between disciplines• Coordinated with the Academic Continuity Ad Hoc Planning Committee to present models for fall 2020 instruction to the administration• Served on the Student Learning Strategic Planning Working Group• Served on the Technology and the Liberal Arts Strategic Initiative Working GroupAccomplishments:• Developed Quantitative Skills Program for Williams College• Revamped Williams College Peer Academic Support Network• Designed and facilitated Professional Development Program for Tutors• Planned NECQL (Northeast Consortium for Quantitative Literacy)• Received funding for NSF-IUSE program “Online modules for quantitative skill building: exploring adaptation and adoption across the curriculum” with collaborators from Carleton College and Davidson College (Award #1829135)• Led faculty/staff reading groups around pedagogy, anti-racist classrooms, and data science topics• Developed Inaugural Teach Week program in May 2019• Worked with faculty across campus in the pivot to remote instruction Spring 2020 and then in AY 2020-21

Duties and Responsibilities:• Taught Chemistry at all levels of the curriculum (except Organic Chemistry)• Supervised undergraduate research • Taught First Year Seminar• Served on College committees through both election and appointment• Served as Co-director of First Year Experience• Oversaw department budget and planning as chairAccomplishments:• Initiated co-curricular First Year Experience program• Drafted policy around investigation of reported sexual assault cases• Negotiated Parental Leave Policy for Faculty • Revised Guidelines for Tenure Procedure • Served on 17 tenure cases• Oversaw departmental curriculum review and alignment with the ACS Committee on Professional Training• Co-wrote departmental Communication Plan for teaching scientific communication• Hired and mentored new faculty to the Chemistry Department• Facilitated campus conversations on Infusion of race, gender, and ethnicity across the curriculum• Facilitated campus conversations around curriculum redesign• Designed and implemented 3 different interdisciplinary First Year Seminars