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Juliet M. Hahn, Ph.D.
BS Chemistry University
of South Carolina, Columbia (where my parents live), Magna Cum Laude,
Phi Beta Kappa, 3.8 GPA (2 computer classes short of chemistry /
computer science double major)
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, State
University of New York, Stony Brook
postdoctoral research
University of Wisconsin, Madison; Columbia University (NY,NY)
more than 10 years experience - all post Ph.D. as
a tenure track assistant professor
teaching: class sizes between 50 and
300 students, Organic Lecture (mostly for science majors), General
Chemistry Lecture (mostly for science majors), Organic Lab (using own
sole authored copyrighted lab textbook), General Chemistry Lab, graduate
level Advanced Organic, Bioorganic and Organic Spectroscopy
research: research as
principal investigator with primarily undergraduate students (1) carbon
nanotube functionalization to make electrically conducting thin films -
new materials, solar energy collector (2) photodimerization of
thymine to bioorganically experimentally simulate the photodimerization reaction
implicated in skin cancer (3) stereoselective synthetic
methodology using organoaluminum catalysis and a zwitterionic effect in
a class of neurobiologically active natural products with potential
application as diagonostic or pharmaceuticals for diseases like
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
I am applying for a lot of faculty positions all over the country.
However 99% of all faculty positions hire a year in advance of arrival
of new faculty so I will not be leaving NMT at least until the end of my
current academic year contract. My current NMT contract is
renewable so I may not leave even at the end of the current academic
year. So my students need not worry that I will leave before
the end of the semester without assigning their grades or anything like
that. It would be logistically impossible for me to do so.
(I am also a US citizen so I have absolutely no work authorization
issues.)
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What separates me from all the other people
looking for a faculty position? (a) I am an
excellent user friendly teacher teaching class sizes from 50 to 300
student General and Organic Chemistry Lectures with documentation of
excellent teaching evaluations from hundreds of students, Deans, and
colleagues over a number of years. [a statistically significant
sample of student teaching evaluations not from just 5 students]
(b) I have a number of research projects as principal investigator
carried out with undergraduate students ongoing from my former faculty
positions and I can get undergraduate students really excited about
doing Chemistry research. Research Projects: (1) carbon nanotube
functionalization to develop solar energy collector (2) DNA base
photodimerization to experimentally, bioorganically simulate skin cancer
(3) synthetic methodology of a cocaine analog / potential
pharmaceuticals for neurobiological diseases like Alzheimers (4)
educational research - large lectures & training students with limited
science background to do research quickly (All of this work
is experimental and research was conducted at primarily undergraduate
universities. None is computational.)
What can I do for a College if hired as professor or lecturer?
I think that we lose 90% of our students (especially economically
disadvantaged students) in College to engineering, medical schools,
science careers because many Colleges fail to reach all of our students
in lower level College science classes (like General and Organic
Chemistry classes). Being interested in and doing well
in Chemistry is learned and any student can be taught to enjoy and
do well in Chemistry. I have a special talent for
making Chemistry accessible to any student because I am a fabulous
teacher. (If I say so myself !
: ) An NSF proposal which I wrote (as PI) had an
educational outreach portion to recruit neighboring high school students
and nearby military personnel into chemistry research as paid research
assistants. I trained (as PI) 15 undergraduate
research students (95% not chemistry majors) and 6 undergraduate
teaching assistants (as instructor of record) during 3 years at DSU.
All my undergraduate research and teaching assistants were paid for
their work and were recruited by me to do this work.
If I am hired as a professor or lecturer, I can increase enrollment in
Chemistry classes and even in the College as a whole. [I
have documentation of enrollment when I teach a class increasing from 5
to 30 students and 25 to 45 students at 2 different universities
with very different demographics.]
Hire me and increase Chemistry and College
enrollment. I can honestly say that I am in
the top 5% of excellent chemistry college teachers. I am
looking for a lecturer or faculty position starting in Fall 2011.
posted by Dr. Juliet Hahn on 5/30/11 at 6 pm from her Patchogue
apartment
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What am I doing now?
There is a tendency to think that wherever you are located is the center
of the universe. As if people will sell their souls to be
able to stay where ever they happen to be located even if they are
catastrophically abused. People seem to think that anyone would be
lucky to allow them to abuse them to the point of irreversible permanent
damage to one's career. Find yourself another person
to abuse (one who can do everything that I am am capable of doing)
because I ain't it. If someone is smart enough to be able to
do all kinds of good things on the job, they are also too smart to let
you abuse them and steal all their ideas and use them as a slave.
There is no center. If there was a center, Socorro is not
it. The good thing about having no husband and children is
that I can go anywhere I want whenever I feel it is in my best interest
to do so.
posted by Dr. Juliet Hahn from her NMT office at 10am
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I was eating lunch in my office when I saw an undergrad student
call a professor by his first name while knocking on his door (twice).
I don't remember ever calling a professor by his first name when I was
an undergrad. I do not even call my colleagues by
their first name because some people take it the wrong way.
posted by Dr. Juliet Hahn from her NMT office at 2:10 pm
Top 20 Untrue Rumors about Dr. Juliet Hahn (a work in progress)
2. Dr. Hahn is a postdoctoral researcher working under
one of the other chemistry professors at NMT.
Nope. My job description (written
contract) says absolutely nothing about
having to do research. I
will not do research under another professor at NMT even if not doing so
literally kills me. I will not be working under
another professor acting as the postdoc in charge of some students.
If some professor says that I will be doing that soon, they are making
up lies. That is never going to happen. You can shove a horse's face into
water, but you can't make the horse drink the water. If the water
is poisoned, the horse is not losing anything anyway except dignity by
not drinking the water. All the person forcing the
horse face into the water will do is hang himself for the crime of drowning the
horse. [scene from "Priest" The vampire says to the
warrior priests: "...You have a choice. You
can choose to die by my hand or you can choose to join me and we will rule the world
together (paraphrased)..." 5 minutes later there are the warrior priests
(presumably they attempted to join hands) hanging on a cross as the
vampire obliterates the town]
As part of the negotiating
process of accepting this job I asked to have an independent research
lab space and a small start up package to try to complete some of the
research from my former faculty positions so that I can try to get a
publication as a principal investigator. I will not
turn over my research to anyone even if not doing so literally kills me.
You cannot take thoughts out of someone's head. Any research
that I do is something I am doing in my spare time for my own
professional interests and is not something for which I am getting paid.
In the research lab which I was told would be an independent research
lab in which I would be able to work on my own principal investigator
research projects is a piece of equipment for which I have absolutely no
need. I actually wanted the big piece of junk (from my
perspective) not even in the room because it takes up half of the floor
space in the lab. Another professor is apparently
having undergraduate students in his teaching lab work on a special
project work on this piece of "junk". The students really
only need access to a small monochromator (small enough to carry out of
the room) but the professor is having his teaching lab students build an
IR on the optical bench ("junk") although some of the students were of
the opinion that the IR could be built on top of anything (such as a
regular lab bench).
I have never seen the students or this professor working in the lab
because apparently the students and professor are ghosts and vampires
who only work at night. I have absolutely nothing
what-so-ever to do with that teaching lab and have absolutely no desire
to have anything what - so - ever to do with that lab or that project.
Unfortunately I was not able to convince the professor to move the piece
of equipment to another room. I have requested that I be
allowed to move myself to some other lab space (although that would cost
me all the time and effort that I have already expended setting up the
lab space so far) but nothing is being done about that so I am currently
stuck. I am not a postdoctoral researcher for this student
teaching lab project and do not want to be a postdoctoral researcher on
this project if it kills me. (and it very well may kill me)
Anyway I never come to campus at night. I have never in my
entire life ever worked in the research lab at any time past 7:30 pm or
at latest 8 pm at night and I am not going to change. I have
taught evening classes but I met with a class of at least 5 to 15
students as a group for a specified time not met with stray students
here and there at some ungodly hour.
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photo 10/26/10 at Stony Brook office photo 10/30/10
at Patchogue apartment
