Group News

2019

~Cindy’s NSF IUSE HSI grant with Galloway (PI), Close, Feng, and Olmstead entitled “Creating Faculty-Student Communities for Culturally Relevant Institutional Change” has been funded. This brings approximately 2.5 million dollars to Texas State to reform teaching within the College of Science and Engineering (7/22/19).
~Congratulations Lisa on your new teaching position at Killeen High School! (7/15/19)
~Welcome Lexi! Alexandra is joining us as part of our CheMIE REU program this summer. (5/10/19)
~Congratulations Lisa, Kaitlyn, Daisy, Jenna, Joy, and Calisa on graduating this May! We wish you the very best! (5/10/19)
~Congrats Kailey and Kaitlyn in being accepted to pharmacy school! (5/3/19)
~Our group has grown to 13 undergraduate researchers! Six new members are joining the Luxford Research Group. Welcome Jenna, Cassy, Catherine, Calisa, Maggie, and Daisy! (1/17/19)

2018

~One new member joined the Luxford Research Group. Welcome Kaitlyn! (8/20/18)
~We organized a workshop at the BCCE and were pleased to have 16 participants attend! (8/2/18)
~Cindy presented retention data at the BCCE. (8/2/18)
~Three new members joined the Luxford Research Group. Welcome Joy, Lisa, and Mitra! (6/1/18)
~Travis, Damien, Rebel, and Kara walked in the commencement ceremony. Congrats! (5/12/18)
~Luxford group presented 2 posters (Travis’s eye-tracking project and Wendy and Nick’s testing feedback project) at the Texas State Undergraduate Research Conference. (4/20/18)
~Nick and Wendy’s poster in the Chemistry Colloquium was recognized as one of the top 3 poster presentations. Congrats! (4/10/18)
~Luxford group presented 2 posters (Kailey’s retention poster, Wendy and Nick’s testing feedback poster) at the 1st TXST Chemistry Colloquium. (4/6/18)

2017

~Four new members join the Luxford Research Group. Welcome Kailey, Kara, Aaron, and Damien! (8/31/17)
~Cindy’s small collaborative grant ($2500) with Drs. Savelyev, Daniel, Roundtree on visual education and communication across science domains was funded. (6/1/17)
~Cindy presented a poster entitled “Role of testing feedback: A preliminary look through the eyes of first-term general chemistry faculty” at the ACS National Meeting in Washington DC. (8/20/17)
~Two new members join the Luxford Research Group. Welcome Wendy and Nicholas! (5/15/17)
~Melissa walked in the commencement ceremony. Congrats Melissa! (5/12/17)
~Cindy gave a seminar entitled “From Concept to Assessment: Fostering Student Success.” (4/14/17)
~Cindy gave two invited talks at the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco (4/17)
~Three new members join the ever evolving Luxford Research Group. Welcome Rebel, Travis, and Melissa! (1/17/16)

2016

~Elizabeth walked in the commencement ceremony. Congrats Elizabeth! (12/16/16)
~Cindy’s ACS Symposium book chapter on testing conceptual understanding with Dr. Holme is now available (11/22/16)
~Cindy’s ACS Symposium book chapter on using the ACCM with Dr. Holme is now available (11/22/16)
~Destin joined the research group. Welcome Destin! (9/1/16)
~Cindy’s (Co-PI) NSF IUSE grant (2016-2019) has been recommended for funding!(8/24/16)
~Maria joined our research group for the summer. Welcome Maria! (6/1/16)
~Katie walked in the commencement ceremony. Congrats Katie! (5/12/16)
~Elizabeth and Katie both presented their research projects at the Texas State Undergraduate Research Poster Session (4/22/16).
~Cindy gave a department seminar entitled ““Using Surveys and Interviews to Uncover Students’ Strategies in Learning Chemistry” (3/24/16).
~ Katie’s research was presented in the ACS Undergraduate Research Poster Session in San Diego (3/14/16).
~ Cindy’s work with the QCCI instrument is now published in JCE (01/25/16)

2015

~ Cindy’s ACS Symposium book chapter with Dr. Holme is now available (12/7/15)
~Cindy’s Research Enhancement Program internal grant was funded! (12/4/15)
~ Katie’s poster abstract and Cindy’s abstract were both accepted for the National ACS Conference. Look for Katie at the Undergraduate Chemistry Education Poster Session on Monday March 14. (12/3/15)
~ 4 Undergraduates joined the group in Fall 2015. Welcome Katie, Elizabeth, Isaac, and Patrick to the research group! (updated 10/31/15)
~ Cindy’s conceptual definition paper is now an ACS Editors Choice article at JCE. (8/10/15)

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