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561 Chemistry Research Laboratory Ph: (304) 293 – 3435×6452 Fax: (304) 293 – 4904 Email: jpenn2@wvu.edu |
Professional Preparation:
PREVIOUS POSITION[S]:
Associate Director, Institute for Microscale Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, 11/89-8/95
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 8/83-7/89
Guest Professor, University of Cologne, Department of Physical Chemistry, 1/93-6/93
EDUCATION:
NIH Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 9/81-8/83, Studied with Professor Josef Michl
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 9/81, Studied with Professor Howard Zimmerman B.S., Chemistry, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV, 5/74.
Research Interests:
Development of New Techniques for Internet-based Teaching Methods
Chemistry of electron-transfer organic molecular complexes
Determination of unusual reaction mechanisms
Microscale chemical techniques
Excited state behavior
Environmental chemistry.
Recent Publications:
John H. Penn and Abdulrahman Al-Shammari, “Use and Evaluation of Computerized Prelab Experiments (CPLEX) for Organic Chemistry”, Chemical Educator, submitted.
John H. Penn and Abdulrahman Al-Shammari, “Teaching Reaction Mechanisms Using the CAN Method”, Journal of Chemical Education, in press.
Inci Morgil, John H. Penn, Nilgun Secken and Ozge Ozyalcin Oskay, “Introduction to Complexation and Masking Within a Computer-Enriched Module for Analytical Chemistry”, Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2006, 7 (2), 109-123.
Inci Morgil, John H. Penn, Nilgun Secken and Ozge Ozyalcin Oskay, “Introduction to Precipitation and Solubility Within A Computer-Enriched Module for Analytical Chemistry”, The Chemical Educator, 2006, 11, 348-54.
John H. Penn, Vincent M. Nedeff, and Gloria Gozdzik, “Organic Chemistry and the Internet: A New Approach to Homework and Testing Using the WE_LEARN System”, Journal of Chemical Education, 2000, 77 (2), 227-31.
Personal or Group website:
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jpenn
http://www.we-learn-horizon.com
