Lecturer
Year Started at JMU: 2021
hollinwc@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Pronouns: He/Him
Research Description
- Chemical Education: Specifically making science education accessible to all students who seek a college education. Primary focus is on equitable and fair assessment and student preparation.
- Low cost urethane curatives: Creation of high performance, low cost urethane curatives which will provide high performance urethane polymers without adding additional cost.
- Electrically actuated artificial muscle systems: Creation and development of contractile materials which will contract and/or relax under electrical stimulation.
Education
- PhD in Organic Chemistry, 1979, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- BS in Chemistry, 1972, City College of New York
Select Publications
- “Applications of Innovations in Teaching to General Chemistry” (2018) as part of the ACS Symposium Series #1301 entitled “Increasing Retention of Under-Represented Students in STEM through Affective and Cognitive Interventions”
- “Research Models for Global R&D” in Chemical Business & Economics, Proceedings of the symposium from Pacifichem 2005, The Pacific Basin Chemical Community; N. Yoda, R. Pariser, M. C. Chon, eds.; The Chemical Society of Japan, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.
- Toward the Manufacture of Indoxacarb in “Synthesis and Chemistry of Agrochemicals VI”, ACS Symposium Series, 2002, 800, pp. 178-185 with R. Shapiro, G. D. Annis, C. T. Blaisdell, D. J. Dumas, J. Fuchs, S. M. Griswold, G. W. Higley Jr., J. J. Mrowca, J. A. Sternberg and P. Wojtkowski.
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
