April 2, 2024: Congratulations to Caroline Zawadi Muteti for the successful dissertation defense. We wish you all the best in your future endaevors, Dr. Muteti. Go make a difference in the society!!!
March 28, 2024: Dr. Mutambuki, S.M Hosain Ifat Sristy, and Caroline Z. Muteti were among the 2024 Honorees of the OSU Book Authors Celebration held in Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room, Edmon Low Library, OSU. Congratulations and keep it up team! Go Pokes!!
Dec 6, 2023: Congratulations to S.M Hossain Ifat for passing the Doctoral Candidacy Exam. Ifat is officially a PhD Candidate in the Chemistry/Chemical Education Program. We are very proud of you, Ifat!!! Go Pokes!
Nov 17, 2023: Mutambuki's Lab presented several research talks at the Fall 2023 ACS SouthWest Regional Meeting (SWRM), OK City, March 15-18, Chemical Education Symposium Series,"Evidence based pedagogies and general papers in general chemistry." The Symposium Organizer was Dr. Jacinta Mutambuki:
- Shanmugam Puvanendran, Tracy Kerr, and Jacinta M. Mutambuki.* Voices of STEM role models versus metacognition training: How do they impact students’ perceptions of chemistry and science. November 17th, Oral Presentation.
- Caroline. Z. Muteti, Brooke I. Jacob, and Jacinta M. Mutambuki.* Metacognition instruction relinquishes the existing equity gaps in study strategies across student demographic groups in general chemistry I course. November 17th, Oral Presentation.
- S. M Ifat Hossain Sristy, Dr. Yolanda Vasquez, Jacinta M. Mutambuki.* Making them see the relevance: the impact of incorporating real-world contexts on students’ perceptions of the content and performance in General Chemistry-I lecture course. November 17th, Oral Presentation.
- Jacinta M. Mutambuki* and Farouk Awudu. Integrating Relevance in the General Chemistry Laboratory Investigations Increases Students' Mastery of Concepts and Development of Scientific Skills. November 17th, Oral Presentation.
Nov 14, 2023: Congratulations to Shanmugam Puvanendran for the successful dissertation defense. We wish you all the best in your future endaevors, Dr. Puvanendran. Go Pokes!
Nov 2023: Congratulations to S. M Hossain Ifat Sristy for publishing his first-authored article in ACS, J. Chem. Educ. 2023, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00516.
July 2023: Congratulations to Caroline Muteti for publishing her 3rd first-authored article: Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3RP00103B.
July 21, 2023: Congratulations to Farouk Awudu for the successful disseratition defense. We wish you all the best in your future endaevors, Dr. Awudu. Go Pokes!
May 26, 2023: Congratulations to Shanmugam Puvan, a PhD candidate, for successfully presenting the departmental seminar on his dissertation project entitled, "Metacognition Training Versus Voices of Role Models: The Impact on Learning Outcomes in Chemistry."Go Pokes!
April 21, 2023: Congratulations to Farouk Awudu, a PhD candidate, for successfully presenting the departmental seminar on his dissertation project entitled, "The impact of 'relevant' authentic research experiences (RAREs) and interdisciplinary chemistry-biology laboratory modules on student cognitive and affective learning outcomes."
April 1, 2023: Mutambuki's Lab presented five research talks at the Spring 2023 ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN & Hybrid, Mar 26-30 under the Division of Chemical Education: Chemical Education Research Symposium (Oral). Congratulations to Farouk Awudu, Shanmugam Puvan, Caroline Muteti, and S.M. Ifat Hossain Sristy. Go Pokes!
Mar 10, 2023: Congratulations to Farouk Awudu, Shanmugam Puvan, and Caroline Muteti for passing the Doctoral Candidacy Exam. They are officially PhD Candidates in Chemistry/Chemical Education Program. We are very proud of you!!! Go Pokes!
Mar 3, 2023: Congratulation to Ethan Strange, a graduate student in the Department of Integrative Biology for giving a research talk on a collaborative project during the Spring 2023 Annual National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), Virtual Inclusive Teaching Symposium:
- Ethan Strange, Donald French,* and Jacinta M. Mutambuki.* Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Implementation of Inclusive Teaching in Life Sciences, Spring 2023 Annual National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), Virtual Inclusive Teaching Symposium, March 2, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Eastern, Oral Presentation.
Sept 2, 2022: Mutambuki's Lab presented research talks at the following conferences:
ACS FALL 2022 Meeting, Chicago, IL & Hybrid August 21 - 25
Congratulations to the Chemical Education graduate students: S.M. Ifat Hossain Sristy and Caroline Muteti!
- S.M. Ifat Hossain Sristy, Yolanda Vasquez, and Jacinta M. Mutambuki*, Enhancing chemistry relevance in a general chemistry lecture course: The impact on student’s cognitive and affective outcomes.
- Caroline Z. Muteti, Mwarumba Mwavita, Smita Mohanty, Jacinta M. Mutambuki*. Changing how they learn: the impact of metacognition instruction on study strategies of general chemistry students.
Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), Purdue University, July 31- Aug 4
Jacinta M. Mutambuki*, Caroline Z. Muteti, Mohit Saraswat, Michael Cahill, Capturing evidence of inclusive teaching in undergraduate STEM classrooms through an inclusive teaching observation protocol (ITOP).
A Chemical Education graduate student receives multiple awards May -Aug, 2022
Congratulations to Caroline Zawadi Muteti for receiving the following awards:
1) 2022 NOBCChE Advancing Science Award, NOBCChE.
2) 2022 OSU Foundation Summer Fellowship Award, Department of Chemistry, OSU.
3) 2022 OSU Women’s Faculty Council Student Research Award, OSU.
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) has funded the Purchase of an ICAP-PRO XP- Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) equipment through the CAS Student Technology Fee - $62,176 in Mar 2022, PI Jacinta Mutambuki and Co-PI Asfaha Iob. This equipment will be utilized to immerse General Chemistry students in authentic research experiences and scientific skills.
Congratulations to Caroline Muteti for publishing her second first-authored article: "Blending muddiest point activities with the common formative assessments bolsters the performance of marginalized student populations in general chemistry
Metacognition Studies were recently featured on the RSC News and Chemical &Engineering News (c&en):
"Making study time count"
https://edu.rsc.org/education-research/this-is-why-you-should-teach-metacognition-explicitly/4012761.article#!divAbstract
"HELPING STUDENTS THRIVE"
Dr. Mutambuki's Lab published an article. Congratulations Caroline Muteti and the entire team!!
Caroline Z. Muteti, Carolina Zarraga, Brooke I. Jacob, Tuli M. Mwarumba, Dorothy B. Nkhata, Mwarumba Mwavita, Smita Mohanty, Jacinta M. Mutambuki.* I realized what I was doing was not working: the influence of explicit teaching of metacognition on students’ study strategies in a general chemistry I course. Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemistry Education Research and Practice, Pub Date: 2020-10-02, DOI: 10.1039/d0rp00217h.
Dr. Mutambuki's Lab published an article:
Jacinta M. Mutambuki*, Mwarumba Mwavita, Caroline Z. Muteti, Brooke Jacob, and Smita Mohanty. Metacognition and Active Learning Combination Reveals Better Performance on Cognitively Demanding General Chemistry Concepts than Active Learning Alone (ACS J.Chem. Educ. 2020, 97(7)1832–1840. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00254)
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) funds the Purchase of Parr™ 6100 Compensated Calorimeters for General Chemistry Labs: Dr. Jacinta Mutambuki PI, $73,327.00 from Spring 2020 CAS Technology Fee Proposals. These equipment will be utilized to train General Chemistry students on authentic research experiences and scientific skills.
Dr. Mutambuki's article, "Integrating Authentic Research Experiences into the Quantitative Analysis Chemistry Laboratory Course: STEM Majors’ Self-Reported Perceptions and Experiences" was recently featured on the ACS, J.Chem Educ. Supplementary Cover: J. Chem. Educ. 2019, 96, 8, 1591-1599, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00902#.