Editors’ Biographies Downloaded by NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV on December 29, 2017 | http://pubs.acs.org Publication Date (Web): October 26, 2017 | doi: 10.1021/bk-2017-1261.ot001
Pia M. Sörensen Pia Sörensen is Senior Preceptor in Chemical Engineering and Applied Materials at the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She co-teaches the General Education course Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science, and led its recent development to an online course on the Edx platform. She is author and editor of several books, including the interactive online textbook “Science and Cooking: A Companion to the Harvard Course” (self-published) and “Online Chemistry Education and the Effect on the On Campus Classroom” (ACS/Oxford University Press). Sörensen’s research interests range from science and engineering education — with an emphasis on online education and creative ways of teaching science and engineering in a liberal arts setting — to the science of food and the chemical and microbial processes of food fermentations. Prior to joining the faculty of the Harvard Paulson School in 2011, Sörensen received a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from Harvard University.
Dorian A. Canelas Dorian Canelas has been teaching general and organic chemistry for over a dozen years. She has received numerous research, education, and leadership awards, including most recently the 2017 David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Her active chemical education research program involves studying implementation of student-centered pedagogies in large-sized gateway courses, creating curricular pathways to increase undergraduate retention in science tracks, and developing online courses and resources. Relevant interests include the development of soft or transferable skills through science coursework, the study of best practices for science-career retention for students from historically marginalized groups, and the evolving status of online learning in higher education. Her work has been funded by grants from the Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the faculty of Duke University’s Department of Chemistry in 2009, she taught chemistry courses at North Carolina State University and held research-intensive positions for several years in both academia and industry. Canelas received a B.S. In Chemistry from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. © 2017 American Chemical Society Sörensen and Canelas; Online Approaches to Chemical Education ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2017.
