Anna C. CurtisAnna C. Curtis is a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her B.S. in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her PhD in hysical chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder. She spent one year as a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Radford University before returning to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to share her passion for chemistry with the next generation of students. Her graduate work focused on understanding electronic dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals with applications in solar cell technology, as well as studying students’ ability to think scientifically in the general chemistry classroom. The current focus of her research lies in undergraduate chemistry course assessment and reform with a focus on the efficacy of active learning strategies within different learning spaces. As both a teacher and a researcher, she is committed to incorporating current research and best practices in chemical education into her teaching and assessing their impact on student learning. Her interest in chemical education is driven by her belief that, with a growth mindset and an effective learning environment, all students are capable of learning chemistry. Read More Read Less