Teaching & Mentoring
Teaching Experience
INSTRUCTOR | Gateways to Graduate School: Navigating Research Programs, Applications, and Funding (AGR 490)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN—August 2024 to December 2024Developed the curriculum for and co-instructed a new 1 credit course designed to aid 23 senior level undergraduate students with their graduate school application materials and prepare them for graduate education
Certificate of Foundations in College Teaching | Center for Instructional Excellence
Purdue University, Lafayette, IN—October 2024Part of the College Teaching Development Program at Purdue University West Lafayette, the Foundations Certificate Program provides an overview of evidence-based teaching practices and strategies
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for Chemistry for Engineers (CHEM 116)
Purdue University, Lafayette, IN—January 2020 to May 2020Worked as a “Tech TA” to aid in the transition to campus-wide iPad use for freshman chemistry in fall of 2020
Mentored 40+ students in the lab for first year chemistry for engineers
Prepared recitation presentations weekly and adapted the instruction to be online after the COVID-19 onset
Hosted weekly office hours in person and online to aid in student development and understanding of concepts
Introduced and monitored weekly experiments for two sections, teaching proper chemistry techniques and safety
Hosted review and test preparation sessions open to all students prior to proctoring exams
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for Air Pollution Control I (EENV 443)
Montana Technological University, Butte, MT—January 2019 to May 2019Worked as a teaching assistant for an upper division undergraduate environmental engineering course
Aided in classroom grading, mentoring, and exam proctoring when needed
Mentoring Experience
Purdue Engineering GradTrack Mentor
Purdue University, Lafayette, IN—August 2022 to April 2023Served as a mentor for a group of underrepresented undergraduate students from institutions across the United States to demystify the graduate school admissions process and prepare application materials
Student Researchers Mentored
Janine Mahoski
Chemistry Undergraduate Research Associate, Purdue University, 2021-2022
Now: Chemistry Intern at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Ashton Cummings
Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research Associate, Montana Technological University, 2018-2019
Now: Staff Engineer at Woodard & Curran | PhD Student at Oregon State University
Autumn Lineback
Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research Associate, Montana Technological University, 2017-2018
Now: Environmental Technician at Coeur Alaska – Kensington Gold Mine
ACS 2019, San Diego
Future Faculty Training
SSMN Boot Camp 2024, New Orleans, LA
Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (SSMN) Future Faculty Boot Camp
Academic Job Market & Future Faculty Boot Camp
New Orleans, LA | Fall 2024
Notre Dame FFW 2024, South Bend, IN
Notre Dame College of Engineering Future Faculty Workshop
Notre Dame College of Engineering
South Bend, IN | May 2024
ITM 2024, New Orleans, LA
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
New Orleans, LA |October 2024
Tampa, FL | October 2023
Atlanta, GA | October 2022
This invited workshop is the largest gathering of underrepresented and minority doctoral scholars in the United States
Attended workshop sessions geared toward faculty preparation and the current education literature
Served as a panelist for the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring Sloan Scholar Orientation
NextProf 2023, Atlanta, GA
NextProf Nexus Future Faculty Workshop
NextProf through Georgia Tech College of Engineering, co-hosted by the University of Michigan College of Engineering and the University of California – Berkeley College of Engineering
Atlanta, GA | August 2023
Preparing Future Faculty Course
GRAD 590 | Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN | August 2023 - December 2023
Professional Development
Research Conferences
The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Environmental Sciences: Water
Holderness, NH | June 2024
The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference
Denver, CO | October 2017
Phoenix, AZ | October 2021
Palm Springs, CA | October 2022
Spokane, WA | October 2023
The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference – Engineering at the Confluence
St. Louis, MO | June 2022
American Chemical Society (ACS) National Conference
San Diego, CA | March 2019
San Diego, CA | March 2022
Montana Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Student Research Symposium
Bozeman, MT | April 2016
Professional Development Conferences and Workshops
American Chemical Society (ACS) Leadership Institute
Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) Fall Classic
Phoenix, AZ | October 2024
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Conference of Ford Fellows – Fellowship Forever: Lifting our Voices for Knowledge, Equity, and Change
Washington, DC | June 2024
Virtual | October 2021
Native Forward Empowering Scholars Summit
Pembroke, NC | June 2024
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Inclusive Leadership Workshop Series
Spokane, WA | October 2023
Virtual | September 2023
Virtual | February 2022
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) National Conference – Diverse Pathways in STEM: Achieving the Dream
Coeur d’Alene, ID | May 2019
Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (SIGP) Gathering
Boulder, MT | April 2018
Butte, MT | April 2019
Pacific Northwest Circle of Success: Mentoring Opportunities in STEM (PNW-COSMOS) Collaborations Across Our Communities Summit
Bozeman, MT | October 2017