DR. KRIS SLOWINSKI
Associate Dean, Academic Programs, Evaluation, and Advising
Professor of Chemistry
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840
Telephone (562) 985 8064 Fax (562) 985 2315
E-mail: [email protected]
Growth Mindset Blog: http://stemgrowthmindset.blogspot.com
Associate Dean, Academic Programs, Evaluation, and Advising
Professor of Chemistry
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840
Telephone (562) 985 8064 Fax (562) 985 2315
E-mail: [email protected]
Growth Mindset Blog: http://stemgrowthmindset.blogspot.com
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CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
DOB: May 18, 1968, Warsaw, Poland, Naturalized US Citizen.
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 1997-2000
Ph.D. in Chemistry with Honors, Warsaw University, Poland, 1992-1997
BS / MS in Chemistry, Warsaw University, Poland, 1987-1992
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Certificate, Management Development Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 2013
CSULB President’s and Provost’s Leadership Fellows Program, 2013-2015, Project: Performance Based Funding (Project Mentor: Provost David Dowell)
American Council on Education Leadership Academy for Department Chairs,
January 2013, Long Beach, CA
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Assessment Workshop, March 2012,
Denver, CO
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Chair’s Workshop, October 2011, San
Diego, CA
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2014 - Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Evaluation, and Advising, College
of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University Long Beach
Oversees matters related to curriculum, enrollment management, admissions, student success programs, student support services, academic appeals, faculty professional development, academic advising, and evaluation of lecturers in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The College consists of 6 academic departments (Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Geological Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics and Astronomy, and Science Education), employs approximately 127 tenure-track faculty, 90 lecturers, 220 teaching associates and graduate assistants, and serves approximately 2,200 undergraduate majors.
Strategic plan for student success.
· academic and social transition programs
· professional development for faculty and staff
· targeted mindset interventions in science success class for freshman
· targeted communication with students focused on learning skills and metacognitive learning strategies
· intrusive advising
· facilitation of course redesign in key lower division courses in mathematics and chemistry
· development of rigorous evaluation standards for part-time faculty
· optimized course placement by utilizing on-line adaptive learning tools (ALEKS PPL for calculus placement and ALEKS Preparatory Chemistry for a general chemistry class)
· learning communities (cohort model combining science and math courses with supplemental instruction, freshman science success class, and extensive peer mentoring and tutoring)
· student support and advising seminars focused on new literature developments in STEM advising and student success.
CSULB Data Fellows Program. I co-direct CSULB Data Fellows Program (along with Vice Provost Dhushy Sathaniathan, Associate Dean Cynthia Grutzik, College of Education, and Academic Operations Analyst Lizzet Rojas, College of Business and Administration). The program involves more than 60 faculty, staff, and associate deans representing all CSULB academic colleges as well as the Division of Student Affairs, the Division of Administration and Finance, and the College of Continuous and Professional Education. The program empowers Data Fellows to become experts on student success data and positively impacts student success across the university.
Long Beach College Promise. I lead the LBCP Governor’s Award Life and Physical Sciences Taskforce charged with developing optimized “pathways” for the transition from high school to community college and from community college to our four-year university for LBUSD, LBCC, and CSULB. This effort is part of the $5M Governor’s Grant awarded to Long Beach College Promise in 2015.
HSI-STEM Grant. I participated in the development of 2016 CSULB HSI-STEM grant (US Department of Education) and currently serve as program Co-PD (along with Tracy Maples, Co-PD and Eric Marinez, PD). The grant “Sí Puedo” (Strengthening the Impact by Providing Undergraduate Educational Development Opportunities), funded at $5.6M for 5 years, is aimed at improving student academic success, improving timely degree completion and retention, increasing degree attainment, and developing model transfer programming.
Staff Recruitment and Evalustion
2011 - 2014 Department Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Long Beach
Provided leadership for the academic department consisting of 22 tenure-track faculty, 15 full-time and part-time lecturers, 30 teaching associates, and 6 staff personnel. The department serves (2011-14) approximately 700 majors in 3 undergraduate and 2 graduate programs. Department Chair provides leadership in all areas of the administration of the department. The specific job responsibilities include the following: recruitment; evaluation and supervision of academic and support staff, faculty and staff orientation; curriculum development and implementation; student advising; budget development and administration; and department continuity and administrative support functions. The department chair serves as the spokesperson on behalf of the faculty to other departments and colleges as well as higher levels of administration within the University, and as the individual within the department who is chiefly responsible for implementing and administering policies and procedures developed at higher levels.
2008 - 2011 Department Vice-Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Long Beach
· Prepared materials concerning appointment and teaching loads of PT faculty in conjunction with American Chemical Society recertification
· Developed teaching schedules for lecturers, teaching associates, and graduate assistants
· Developed significant portion of the department policy regarding lecturers' evaluation
· Proposed and coordinated development of standard course placement and standard course outlines for a general chemistry sequence to ensure uniform standards in multiple section courses frequently taught by non-tenure track faculty
· Organized and performed mid-semester teaching evaluation of teaching associates
· Developed training workshop for teaching associates who are scheduled to teach discussion sections in lower division courses. The workshop is held at the beginning of each semester and is devoted to hands on experience in classroom activities in general chemistry.
CSULB TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2011 - Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
California State University Long Beach
2006-2011 Associate Professor of Chemistry (early tenure and promotion),
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2001-2006 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry
2003-2004 Research Chemist, General Electric Global Research Center,
Nanotechnology Laboratory, Niskayuna, NY (on leave from CSULB,
participated in research on electrochemical deposition of metal and semiconductor nanorods in porous alumina resulting in 1 US Patent, completed Six Sigma Training, developed white papers on solid oxide fuel cells, high temperature water electrolysis, and other topics for submission to Department of Energy, NIST, and other agencies)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instrumental Analysis Lecture and Laboratory: contributed to the development of several new lab modules, collaborated on significant changes in course content that aligned the course with requirements of modern standards of analytical laboratories
Quantitative Analysis Lecture and Laboratory: redesigned lecture component of the course with a focus on modern instrumental techniques. Introduced “concept mapping” to facilitate learning in the course. Revamped lab component by introducing several new experiments focused on statistical analysis of data
Introductory General Chemistry: in collaboration with Dr. Nail Senozan, redesigned our preparatory chemistry class. The redesign resulted in significant decline of student attrition in the course with concurrent
increase in completion of CHEM 111A (the subsequent course in chemistry curriculum)
Electroanalytical Methods: developed new graduate-level course in electroanalytical methods, prepared course materials and assessment materials
HIGHLIGHTS OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AT CSULB
University General Education Governing Committee
Considered general education proposals from all colleges
University Program Review and Assessment Council
Considered multiple program review reports, participated in 2 program reviews as a subcommittee member
University Committee on Patents & Copyrights
Developed (in collaboration with AVP James Till) recommendations for the university IP process presented to the Council of Deans
CNSM College Council
Served as secretary and chair of the college council for 2 years. Facilitated development of several policies including Policy on Minimum Teaching load and modifications in the CNSM Constitution.
CNSM RTP Policy Development Ad-Hoc Committee
Contributed to the development of the CNSM RTP Policy.
CNSM Curriculum Committee
Considered curriculum proposals form all departments.
Department Curriculum and Assessment Committee
Considered curriculum proposals and new department-wide assessment approaches.
Department Retention Tenure and Promotion Committee
Participated in multiple evaluations for promotion, tenure and performance review of full time lecturers.
Department Freshman Chemistry Committee
Facilitated substantial changes in the general chemistry curriculum and placement.
Department Graduate Studies Committee
Participated in review of academic performance of graduate students.
Department RTP Policy Development Ad-Hoc Committee
Made substantial contributions to the development of a new Department RTP Policy.
RESEARCH
My research group at CSULB has focused on the mechanism of electron transfer through single molecules and molecular nanostructures with emphasis on electron transfer through biologically relevant molecules. Our research has been funded by CSULB, National Institutes of Health, Research Corporation, NATO, and the American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund (with a continued external grant support 2002-2014, total of $950,000) and resulted in 11 research papers published in major international journals and more than 30 presentations on national and international meetings and invited departmental colloquia at 6 universities and 2 corporate research laboratories. The research papers from my research group were coauthored by 16 CSULB undergraduate and graduate students and received ca. 200 citations in the primary literature (self-citations excluded) to date. Seven papers describe results obtained solely at my CSULB laboratory, 2 papers involved research collaboration with Dr. Jacqueline Barton (California Institute of Technology) and Dr. Michael Hill (Occidental College), 1 paper involved collaboration with Dr. Renata Bilewicz, Warsaw University, and 1 paper involved collaboration with Dr. Young-Seok Shon (CSULB).
CSULB Research Group: ~ 40 undergraduate research students and 3 MS graduate students
External Research Funding (as PI)
· American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund, GB Grant, 2002 - 2005, funding: $ 35 k
· NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant 08/2002 - 08/2004, funding: $ 7 k
· National Institutes of Health - SCORE Grant 06/2004 - 09/2005, funding: $ 343 k
· Research Corporation, Cottrell Grant 06 / 2004 - 06/2007, funding: $ 38 k
· Research Corporation, Cottrell Grant 01 / 2008 - 01/2010, funding: $ 35 k
· American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund, B Grant, 2008 – 2012, funding: $ 65 k
· National Institutes of Health – SC-3 Grant 05/2010 - 05/2014, funding: $ 430 k
External Research Funding (as Co-PD)
· “Sí Puedo” (Strengthening the Impact by Providing Undergraduate Educational Development Opportunities), Department of Education, HSI-STEM Grant, $5.6M,
Co-PD with Tracy Maples (Co-PD) and Eric Marinez (PD)
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AT CSULB
CSULB students/postdocs underlined; *Corresponding author
Garside, J., Barnum, A. Nelson, K., Martinez, C., Le, G., Monahan, K., Bui, N., Roeuth, D., Slowinski, K.*, Electron Tunneling through Monolayers of α,ω-thioalkanoic acids in Hg-Hg Electrochemical Tunnel Junctions in Water., Int.J.Electrochem.Sci., 2014, 9, 4345
Adaligil, E., Slowinski, K.* Electron Tunneling through Monolayers of Alkanethiols SelfAssembled on a Hanging Mercury Drop Electrode in the Presence of Aliphatic Alcohols, J.Electroanal.Chem. 2010, 649, 142
Adaligil, E., Shon, YS, Slowinski, K.* The Effect of Headgroup on Electrical Conductivity of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Mercury: n-Alkanethiols vs. n-Alkaneselenols, Langmuir, 2010, 26, 1570
Hammond, W.J., Arndt, J., Nguyen, T., Slowinska, K.U., Jackson, C., Burgoyne, H.A., Hill, M.G.*, Slowinski, K.*, Detection of DNA π-Stack Lesions Using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, ECS Transactions, 2009, 16 (38), 55
Gorodetsky, A.A., Hammond, W.J., Hill, M.G.*, Slowinski, K.*, Barton, J.K.*, Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy of DNA Monolayers modified with Nile Blue and Sequence-specific Detection of Protein Binding, Langmuir 2008, 24, 14282
Wierzbinski, E., Slowinski, K.*, In Situ Electrochemical Distance Tunneling Spectroscopy of Single n-alkanethiol and α,ω-alkaneditiol Molecules in Water, Langmuir 2006, 22, 5205
Wierzbinski, E., Arndt, J., Hammond, W., Slowinski K.*, In Situ Electrochemical Distance Tunneling Spectroscopy of ds-DNA Molecules. Langmuir 2006, 22, 2426
York, R.L., Nacionales, D., Slowinski, K.*, Electrical Resistivity of Monolayers and
Bilayers of Alkanethiols in Tunneling Junction with Gate Electrode. Chemical Physics, 2005, 319, 235
Sek, S., Bilewicz, R., Slowinski, K.*, Wiring of α, ω – Alkaneditiols Into Electrical Circuit. Chemical Communications (Royal Society) 2004, (4), 404
York, R.L., Nguyen, P.T., Slowinski, K.*, Long-Range Electron Transfer through
Monolayers and Bilayers of Alkanethiols in Electrochemically Controlled Hg-Hg Tunneling Junctions, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2003, 125, 5948
York R.L., Slowinski K.*, Electron Tunneling through Single- and Two Component
Bilayers in Hg-Hg Tunneling Junctions, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 2003, 550551, 327
PUBLICATIONS BEFORE APPOINTMENT AT CSULB
Slowinski, K., Majda, M., Mercury-Mercury Tunneling Junctions. II. Structure and Stability of Symmetric Alkanethiolate Bilayers and Their Effect on the Rate of Electron Tunneling, J.Electroanal.Chem., 2000, 491, 139-147
Slowinski, K., Bilewicz, R., Kublik, Z., Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer modified electrodes based on thiol-derived bifunctional alkanes, Electrochem. Commun., 1999, 1(10), 437-440
Slowinski, K., Slowinska, K.U., Majda, M., Electron Tunneling Across Hexadecanethiolate Monolayers on Mercury Electrodes: Reorganization Energy, Structure, and Permeability of the Alkane/Water Interface, J.Phys.Chem.B, 1999, 103, 8544-8551
Slowinski, K., Fong, H.K.Y., Majda, M., Mercury-Mercury Tunneling Junctions. I. Electron Tunneling Across Symmetric and Asymmetric Alkanethiolate Bilayers. J.Am.Chem.Soc., 1999, 121, 7257-7261
Slowinska, K.U., Slowinski, K., Pietraszkiewicz, M., Bilewicz, R., Hexaazamacrocyclic ligands with long alkyl chains as functional units in monomolecular Langmuir-Blodgett films, Supramol.Chem., 1999, 10, 201-211
Slowinski, K., Chamberlain, R.V., Miller, C.J., Majda, M., Through-Bond and Chain-to-Chain Coupling. Two pathways in Electron Tunneling Through Liquid Alkanethiol Monolayers on Mercury Electrodes, J.Am.Chem.Soc., 1997, 119, 11910-11919
Slowinski, K., Chamberlain, R.V., Bilewicz, R., Majda, M., Evidence for Inefficient Chain-to-Chain Coupling in Electron Tunneling Through Liquid Alkanethiol Monolayer Films on Mercury, J.Am.Chem.Soc., 1996, 118, 4709-4710
Slowinski, K., Bilewicz, R., Majda, M., Two-Probe Voltammetric Characterization of Structural Defects in Octadecanethiol/Octadecanol Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers on Gold Electrodes, Chem.Anal., 1995, 40, 329-339
Slowinski, K., Bilewicz, R., Kublik, Z., Pietraszkiewicz, O., Multi-Stage Electron Transfer in Binuclear Cu(II) Complex with Hexaazamacrocyclic Ligand and Small Coligands, Polish J.Chem., 1995, 69, 707-715
Slowinski, K., Kublik, Z., Bilewicz, R., Pietraszkiwicz, M., Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction by a Copper (II) Hexaazamacrocyclic Complex. J.Chem.Soc.Chem.Commun., 1994, 1087-1088
McKenzie, C.J., Toftlund, H., Pietraszkiewicz, M., Stojek, Z., Slowinski, K., Binuclear Complexes of a New Hexadentate Macrocyclic Ligand The Crystal and Molecular Structure of [Lcu2(CH3CO2)2](ClO4)·5H2O, Inorg.Chim.Acta, 1993, 210, 143-149
SCIENCE CITATION INDEX
Total citations (9/2019, Google Scholar): 1454, h-index: 14
PATENTS
Patterned nanorod arrays and methods of making same, United States Patent 7686885 (with R. Corderman and A. Ku)
PEER-REVIEWED OR INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE AREAS OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND STUDENT SUCCESS
Increasing Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce. Actions for Improving Evidence, Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, 2016 (this publication is a collaborative effort of 70 members of Action Groups (Leadership and Organizational Change, Diverse Talent Development, Recruitment and Admissions). I participated in the “Leadership and Organizational Change” Action Group.
The Evolving Role of Faculty in Student Success, EAB White Paper, 2016 (Consultant)
AASCU 2016 Academic Affairs Winter Meeting, Invited Panelist (with Nele Hempel-Lamer, Jennifer Ostergreen, and Tracy Maples), “Data Driven: Student Success Initiatives from a College-Level Perspective”, February 2016
Improving First Year STEM Retention Through Mathematics Placement, Learning Communities, and Growth Mindset, CSU Graduation 2025 Symposium, Long Beach, CA, September 2016, Invited Speaker (with Dr. Tracy Maples)
Improving Success of STEM Students Through Mathematics Placement, Learning Communities and Growth Mindset, AASCU 2017 Academic Affairs Winter Meeting, Invited Speaker (with Dr. Tracy Maples), San Diego, CA, February 2017
Towards Inclusive Excellence in STEM - Identifying and Removing Barriers to Student Success, (with Dr. Beth Manke) STEM Equality Conference, Amsterdam 2018
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for Professional Journals (ca. 130 reviews to date)
Bioconjugate Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Electrochimica Acta, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Langmuir, Analytical Chemistry, Applied Surface Science, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, Advanced Functional Materials
Reviewer for Grant Proposals: National Research Council of Canada, Research Corporation, National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
Reviewer for Textbooks:
Exploring Chemical Analysis” by D.C. Harris; 2003, 2005
College Board AP Course Audit – Consultant Reviewer
External Program Reviewer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CSU Los Angeles, January 2015
American Chemical Society Program Certification Reviewer, Westmont College, CA (with Dr. Jeanne E. Pemberton, Regent’s Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arizona), January 2016