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Dr. Amy Gottfried |
Dr. Amy Gottfried was the first CSIE post-doctoral student at the University of Michigan where she worked with advisors Mark Banaszak Holl and Brian Coppola. With Professor Banaszak Holl's research group she pursued mechanistic and synthetic inorganic main group chemistry as well as supervising undergraduate research students. With Professor Brian Coppola, she contributed to a significant redesign of the Honors Organic laboratory program and to the scholarship of teaching. Amy was the team leader of the Studio Chemistry project, where she worked on the problems of materials development, personnel training and coordination, and assessment. She participated in the National Peer Review of Teaching project. Dr. Gottfried is now a Lecturer in University of Michigan Chemistry Department.
Design and Implementation of a Studio-based General Chemistry Course at the University of Michigan. A. C. Gottfried, R. D. Sweeder, J. M. Bartolin, J. A. Hessler, B. P. Reynolds, I. C. Stewart, B. P. Coppola, and M. M. Banaszak Holl, J. Chem. Ed. 2007, 84, 265-270.
Before Michigan
Amy earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill under the direction of Dr. Maurice Brookhart. Her dissertation research focused on the living polymerization of ethylene and α-olefins using Pd α-diimine catalysts. The papers and presentations describing this work are listed below.
Papers
1) Gottfried, A. C.; Brookhart, M. "Living and Block Copolymerization of Ethylene and α-Olefins Using Palladium(II) α-diimine Catalysts" Macromolecules 2003, 36, 3085-3100.
2) Hong, S. C.; Jia, S.; Teodorescu, M.; Kowalewski, T.; Matyjaszewski, K.; Gottfried, A. C.; Brookhart, M. "Polyolefin graph copolymers via living polymerization techniques: preparation of poly(n-butly acrylate)-graft-polyethylene through the combination of Pd-mediated living olefin polymerization and atom transfer radical polymerization." J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2002, 40, 2736-2749.
3) Hong, S. C.; Matyjaszewski, K.; Gottfried, A. C.; Brookhart, M. "Preparation of polyethylene and graft copolymers through the combination of Pd mediated olefin polymerization and ATRP." Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 2001, 85, 363-364
4) Gottfried, A. C.; Brookhart, M. "Living Polymerization of Ethylene Using Palladium α-diimine catalysts." Macromolecules 2001, 34, 1140-1142.
Presentations
a) Hong, S. C.; Matyjaszewski, K.; Gottfried, A. C.; Brookhart, M."Prepartion of polyethylene graft copolymers through the combination of Pd mediated olefin polymerization and ATRP." Abstracts of Papers, 222th ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL United States, Aug 26-30, 2001, PMSE 220.
b) Gottfried, A. C.; Brookhart, M. "Pd α-diimine catalysts for the living polymerization of ethylene and α-olefins." Abstracts of Papers, 222th ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL United States, Aug 26-30, 2001, INOR 249.
c) Collins, A. E.; Brookhart, M. "Living Polymerization of Ethylene and α-olefins with Pd α-diimine catalysts." Abstracts of Papers, 220th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC United States, Aug 19-23, 2000, INOR 377.
While at UNC, Amy added a number of formative instructional activities to her graduate work. She was a Supplementary Instruction Leader for general chemistry for two years under the guidance of Lisa LaTouche and the Learning Center. She co-led the TA development and training workshop for new science TAs. And, she was one of six campus-wide graduate teaching consultants under Donna Bailey for the Center for Teaching and Learning. As a consultant, she helped plan the campus-wide TA orientation, a Fall retreat for faculty and graduate students focused on graduate student development, taught workshops, and facilitated many lessons in GRAD 202: College teaching.
Personal
Amy's favorite activities outside of teaching are cooking (and eating) and playing softball. She will give just about any sport a try, loves to explore the great outdoors, and enjoys helping out others especially through Habitat for Humanity. And, most importantly, she values time with her husband, family, friends, and church.