From UNC Asheville:
UNC Asheville Professor Sally Wasileski Recognized for Teaching Excellence
The UNC Board of Governors today announced that Associate Professor of Chemistry Sally Wasileski will be UNC Asheville’s recipient of the 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching. Wasileski specializes in analytical and computational chemistry and has taught at UNC Asheville for 11 years.
Each year, the board selects a faculty member from each UNC campus to receive the award; Wasileski was nominated for the teaching excellence award by a committee of her colleagues. The award will be presented by a member of the Board of Governors during the spring commencement ceremony at UNC Asheville.
Wasileski teaches, designs and coordinates the analytical chemistry courses in UNC Asheville’s Chemistry Department, including “Quantitative Chemistry Laboratory,” “Analytical Chemistry” and “Instrumental Analysis,” in addition to general chemistry and chemical research methods. She is known for her creative course for non-science majors, “The Food of Chemistry,” in which chemistry is taught through food and cooking. She is also the coordinator of the Chemistry Scholars Program at UNC Asheville, which offers scholarships and student support structures for chemistry majors at UNC Asheville. The program is supported by two grants from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education, and graduated the first cohort at UNC Asheville in May 2015.
Wasileski’s research interests include computational, alternative energy and environmental chemistry. In her alternative energy research, Wasileski leads students in investigating heterogeneous catalytic reactions involved in harnessing hydrogen fuels from bio-renewable molecules, or molecules derived from plant matter, using computational methods. She also partners with colleagues in the Environmental Science Department to lead students in using advanced analytical instrumentation to research toxins present in the groundwater in neighborhoods adjacent to the former CTS electroplating facility in south Asheville.
For more information on the UNC Board of Governors 2016 Awards for Teaching Excellence, see the University of North Carolina system news release.
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