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Colleen Kelley
University of Arizona
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Dr. Colleen Kelley
Creating fun and accessible chemistry stories has been a labor of love for Colleen as a retired University of Arizona chemistry professor and author of a series of kid’s chemistry comic books. https://kidschemicalsolutions.com/
In 2023, the PBS short documentary, “Comic Book Chemistry” was awarded an Emmy. https://youtu.be/wDmkJzcm4Pc
This documentary centered around Colleen’s vision, chemistry comic book series and her success with teaching college-level chemistry concepts to kids. During Colleen’s 30 years of teaching chemistry, she became aware that her students were struggling with basic concepts, including fluency with the symbols for the elements themselves. These comic books, videos, and activities are Colleen’s gift to all future scientists – one that will help them succeed in college chemistry.
Colleen holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Penn State University, was awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship to conduct research at the Universite Pasteur in Strasbourg, France under the direction of Nobel Prize Winner, Jean-Marie Lehn. Colleen was a tenured faculty member with research expertise in environmental toxicology, medicinal chemistry, and chemistry education. She has published four chemistry textbooks, over 30 peer-reviewed articles, and has presented her work globally.
Creating fun and accessible chemistry stories has been a labor of love for Colleen as a retired University of Arizona chemistry professor and author of a series of kid’s chemistry comic books. https://kidschemicalsolutions.com/
In 2023, the PBS short documentary, “Comic Book Chemistry” was awarded an Emmy. https://youtu.be/wDmkJzcm4Pc
This documentary centered around Colleen’s vision, chemistry comic book series and her success with teaching college-level chemistry concepts to kids. During Colleen’s 30 years of teaching chemistry, she became aware that her students were struggling with basic concepts, including fluency with the symbols for the elements themselves. These comic books, videos, and activities are Colleen’s gift to all future scientists – one that will help them succeed in college chemistry.
Colleen holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Penn State University, was awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship to conduct research at the Universite Pasteur in Strasbourg, France under the direction of Nobel Prize Winner, Jean-Marie Lehn. Colleen was a tenured faculty member with research expertise in environmental toxicology, medicinal chemistry, and chemistry education. She has published four chemistry textbooks, over 30 peer-reviewed articles, and has presented her work globally.
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https://www.youtube.com/@ChemistryColleen
I have created this YouTube channel to reach kids (and families!) ages 3+. The lesson, experiments, and activities are all green and for the most part...edible!
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- Colleen Kelley was just tagged in a comment: Hi @Diana Phelps and @Saskia van Bergen, happy New Year! I hope you both had a wonderful holiday celebration. A year ago, I remember creating this forum about how to introduce sustainability to kindergarten students. At the time, I honestly did not know how to approach it myself. I felt that it would require quite a bit of experience working with this age group to explain something so big and abstract. But when I read your story above, it gave me a real “aha!” moment. Approaching the topic from that perspective can truly spark deep curiosity, simply by tapping into their emotions. I really admire how you built this kind of approach, and I would love to know how you arrived at this teaching strategy. I have also been following @Colleen Kelley on LinkedIn, and I am inspired by how driven she is in creating very creative experiments and educational materials. They are so elegant that chemistry (very abstract subject) becomes genuinely appealing to kids. In this case I would assume that Colleen’s value proposition is tapping into the limitless creative imagination of children....
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