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About the Organic Lab Staff

The lecture courses are taught by the Organic Chemistry faculty on a rotating basis. The organic chemistry laboratories are managed by the Director of Undergraduate Organic Labs. The laboratory classes and recitations for lecture are taught by Teaching Assistants.

Help room schedule

The organic help room is located in Ekeley M1B32. This is a list of when the help room will be staffed by the TAs and professors. Some professors may have office hours elsewhere.

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
8:00
AM
9:05
AM
Abby
Rawlings
Zirui
Wang
Austin
Bargmann
10:10
AM
Ashley
Ley
Max
Abreu
Alec
Kolodziejczyk
11:15
AM
Jacquie
Richardson
12:20
PM
Quinn
Brink
Max Abreu
1:25
PM
Akhil
Khanal,
Alex
LaVeck
KajalAkhil
Khanal
(1:45-2:45),
Jamie
Stankiewiz
2:30
PM
Lukas
Gardner
Shota
Hasegawa
3:35
PM
Cameron
Lee
Dyuti
Chakraborty
Jacquie
Richardson
4:40
PM

Teaching Assistants

Many TAs teach organic chemistry in any given semester. The best of these TAs are honored with either the John S. Meek Teaching Award or the Patty Feist Teaching Award. The TAs for the current semester are:

Max Abreu
Max
Abreu
Email
Austin Bargmann
Austin
Bargmann
Email
Quinn Brink
Quinn
Brink
Email
Dyuti Chakraborty
Dyuti
Chakraborty
Email
Timmy Davis
Timmy
Davis
Email
Kyle Fisch
Kyle
Fisch
Email
Lukas Gardner
Lukas
Gardner
Email
James Greenwood
James
Greenwood
Email
Shota Hasegawa
Shota
Hasegawa
Email
Olivia Jenks
Olivia
Jenks
Email
Kajal
Kajal
Email

Alec Kolodziejczyk
Alec
Kolodziejczyk
Email
Hunter Koltunski
Hunter
Koltunski
Email
Alex LaVeck
Alex
LaVeck
Email
Cameron Lee
Cameron
Lee
Email
Ashley Ley
Ashley
Ley
Email
Ryan McGregor
Ryan
McGregor
Email
Ethan Miller
Ethan
Miller
Email
Abby Rawlings
Abby
Rawlings
Email
Ben Rose
Ben
Rose
Email
Jamie Stankiewiz
Jamie
Stankiewiz
Email
Zirui Wang
Zirui
Wang
Email

Director of Undergraduate Organic Labs

Several people have held the position of Director of Organic Labs (a.k.a Lab Coordinator) over the past few years:

Jacquie RichardsonJacquie Richardson received her PhD in December 2010 from CU Boulder. She worked with Dave Walba on liquid crystal synthesis and characterization, and served as a TA for several semesters of grad school. She has BS degrees in both chemistry and chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. You can direct any problems, comments, constructive criticism, or praise on the new web site to Jacquie.

E-mail: Jacqueline.Richardson@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-8256
Office: Ekeley M1B30





Patty FeistPatty Feist was the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator from 1985 until her retirement in May 2010. The web site "orgchem" first came to the web in 1997, as a small web site with course information, located physically on a Mac in the stockroom. In the next decade it grew to encompass the techniques of undergraduate organic chemistry teaching labs: distillation, extraction, crystallization, drying, filtration, column, thin layer, and gas chromatography, melting points, solvent removal, and IR, NMR, and mass spectroscopy. Most of the text is authored by Patty; NMR and mass spectroscopy were authored by Tad Koch. All of the html and photo work was done by Patty. She strived to keep the pages simple so that they would both load quickly and work on a variety of platforms, and be accessible to people with disabilities. In 2009, the web site moved to the chem server, but it retains the url "orgchem.colorado.edu".

Patty is the co-author of the third edition of Organic Laboratory Techniques by Fessenden, Fessenden, and Feist (2000, Brooks/Cole Publishing/Cengage Learning). If you have any comments on this text, she'd be pleased to hear them! Any errors, suggestions for new sections, suggestions for sections to delete, sections that would be clearer if re-worded... please direct comments to her (at feist@colorado.edu) so that the next edtion can be even better.