Estelle Lebeau
Professor
大象传媒 Faculty Since 2016
It was during Professor Lebeau鈥檚 doctoral work at the University of North Carolina that she discovered her passion for teaching undergraduate students. She was fortunate to have the opportunity to serve as a chemistry lecturer during her post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 1998. By then, she knew teaching chemistry was a career that would bring a lot of satisfaction.
Lebeau spent the first 16 years of her career at Central Michigan University, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. She has published the results of her research in professional journals with some of her research students as coauthors.
Although Lebeau enjoyed the one-on-one mentoring relationship she had with her lab students, she feels inspired by undergraduate students in the classroom. She has conducted research in the area of chemical education and continues to strive to put the best learning practices into action in the classroom to achieve great student learning outcomes. She joined the faculty at 大象传媒 in 2016 and hopes her tenure will allow her to inspire and train the next generation of science students.
Education
- Ph.D., Chemistry, University of North Carolina
- B.S., Chemistry, Bates College
Courses
- CHM3200: Analytical Chemistry
- CHM 1011: General Chemistry I
- CHM 1015: General Chemistry I Laboratory
- CHM 1022: General Chemistry II
- CHM 1025: General Chemistry II Lab
Publications
- Inorganic Chemistry, 鈥淓lectronic Structure of the Water Oxidation Catalyst, cis,cis-[(bpy)2(H2O)RuIIIORuIII(OH2)(bpy)2]4+, The Blue Dimer,鈥 2012. Authors: Estelle Lebeau, Jonah Jurss, Javier Concepcion, Thomas Meyer, Joseph Templeton, et al.
- The Midland Chemist, 鈥淪tudents Shine During Project SEED 2008鈥 (American Chemical Society, Midland Section), 2009. Author: Estelle Lebeau
- 鈥淎ctive Learning in General Chemistry II and Survey of Chemistry鈥 250th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2015 Author: Estelle Lebeau
- 鈥淪ynthesis and Characterization of a cis-directed 4-electron/4-proton Transfer Agent Precursor鈥 American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2014 Author: Estelle Lebeau
Honors And Awards
- 2020 National Science Teaching Assoc. Technology Award
- Scholarship America's 2022 Course Hero Teaching Grant