Dr. Michelle Nelson
Dr. Michelle Nelson
Dr. Michelle Nelson is currently a Student-Based Faculty at the University of Minnesota Rochester. At UMR, Dr. Nelson is part of a collaborative, team-teaching environment focused on using best practices to engage students in active learning to teach organic chemistry concepts. She has a strong interest in exploring methods for creating inclusive classrooms that benefit students from diverse backgrounds without need for extra accommodations, including the use of multiple representations for more challenging concepts. She has created and taught labs for Organic Chemistry I and II which included the development of a semester-long project based on exploring sunscreens.
She earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of California, San Diego where she explored the synthesis and physical properties of triazine nucleosides and the isolation and modification of phorbol esters. After graduation, she performed synthesis for medicinal chemistry purposes and created libraries of organic molecules.
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