Educator Profile:
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| Dr. Chris Borysenko |
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Director, Mellon College of Science Interdisciplinary Laboratories
Special Teaching Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University
Joined the Mellon faculty in 2005. Teaches and develops undergraduate labs and lecture courses as well as outreach course offerings.
Ph.D.: Bio-Organic Chemistry (Enzymology and small molecule kinetics work in William Jencks' group), Brandeis University
M.S.: Organic Chemistry (Enzymology work in George Whitesides’ group), Harvard School of Medicine, Division of Medical Sciences
email: cb1@andrew.cmu.edu
Drawing on a rich background of interdisciplinary studies, Dr. Borysenko teaches the lab component of a Physics nanotechnology course, the AFM component of a Physical Chemistry lab, as well as a very popular freshman course on forensic science, a topic which works very well as a framework for interdisciplinary studies.
The forensic science course brings together not only chemistry and physics, but also history of science topics such as inductive vs. deductive logic, and philosophy of science, including Popperian falsification. He has also been active in Carnegie Mellon's outreach programs, including one for accelerated high school students, which is described in further detail on the following pages.
Nanoscale Research Project for High School Students
In Summer 2005, Borysenko led a group of high school juniors in a nanoscale research project that produced publishable results using an atomic force microscope (AFM). more on Page 2...
The research project brought together biology and physics, as the students studied nutritional yeast using a variety of methodologies. more on Page 3...
One of Borysenko’s aims for the project was to give the students an experience of the full research cycle, complete with its uncertainties and ups and downs. more on Page 4...
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