个人简介

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - B.A. Georgia Institute of Technology - Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry Awards 2013-2014 UCR University Honors Professor of the Year Award 2014 American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement (ACS-CEI) Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education 2013 NSF cCWCS (Chemistry Collaborations, Workshops, & Communities of Scholars) Implementation Grant Award ("Case Studies in Chemistry Workshop") 2013 UCR Innovative Teaching Award

研究领域

Inorganic Chemistry

As a teaching track faculty member, my primary focus of scholarly activity lies in developing, implementing, and assessing more engaging learning environments for large enrollment general chemistry courses. I am the principal investigator on a United States Department of Agriculture Higher Education Challenge Grant Program project that is recruiting incoming freshmen to participate in an Environmental-Agricultural Science learning community. In this learning community, our students are engaged in environmental-based case studies in our general chemistry sequence, introduced to environmental/agricultural based research in a freshman seminar course, and then recruited to work on independent research projects under the guidance of a faculty mentor. I am also the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM project that aims to develop, implement, and disseminate a series of problem-based case studies in our two year general chemistry/organic chemistry sequence. In addition to these projects, I am in the process of developing “clicker cases” for my general chemistry lectures. These clicker cases promote an active learning environment, as the students use in-class response clickers to respond to periodic clicker questions that are embedded in a lecture-based case study. As a teaching track faculty member, I also have the opportunity to conduct laboratory research with undergraduate students. My students are directly involved in synthesizing and characterizing gold(III) coordination complexes, and subsequently evaluating their biological properties and antitumor activity. I am also working with a collaborator in biomedical sciences in an effort to determine the antiproliferative effects of one of our coordinating ligands on glioblastoma tumor cells, an extremely aggressive class of brain cancer.

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Joshua Hartman and Jack F. Eichler,* "Using Oceans to Fight Global Warming?" National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, 2014 (Link). Joshua Hartman and Jack F. Eichler,* "Corn Ethanol: Using Corn to Make Fuel?" National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, 2014 (Link). Joshua Hartman and Jack F. Eichler,* "Hydrogen Powered Cars: The Wave of the Future?" National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, 2014 (Link). K.Theel, J.D. Hartman, J.F. Eichler,* "Liquid Coal: Producing Liquid Fuel from Non-Petroleum Sources" National Center for CAse Study Teaching in Science, 2013. (Link) J.F. Eichler* and J. Peeples, "Online Homework Put to the Test: A Report on the Impact of Two Online Learning Systems on Student Performance in General Chemistry." J. Chem. Educ., 2013, 90(9), pp 1137-1143 (Link to article). J.F. Eichler, "History of the Atom: From Atomism to the Nuclear Model." National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, 2012. (Link to the Case Study) J.F. Eichler,* "Ground level ozone in Newton County, GA: A SENCER model for introductory chemistry." Chapter in Science Education and Civic Engagement, R.D. Sheardy, editor, 2010, ACS Division of Chemical Education. J.F. Eichler,* "Imploding coke cans: From demonstration to guided inquiry." Journal of Chemical Education, 2009, 86(4), 472-474 (Feature Cover Article - April 2009 issue). J.F. Eichler,* "An air quality TPSL project for introductory chemistry." Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2008, 12(3) 11-15 (Editor’s Choice Article). J.F. Eichler,* H. Patrick, B. Harmon, and J. Coonce, "Mentos and the scientific method: A sweet combination." Journal of Chemical Education, 2007, 84, 1120-1123. J.F.Eichler,* "Using a precipitation reaction in a guided inquiry stoichiometry laboratory." The Chemical Educator, 2007, 12, 347-348. Research Publications with Undergraduate Co-authors Pauline M. Olsen, Charles Ruiz, Daniel Lussier, Brian Khoa Le, Noah Angel, Michelle Smith, Chihyun (Brian) Hwang, Raneen Khatib, Julia Jenkins, Kaitlyn Adam, Jonathan Getcher, Fook Tham, Zhou (Georgia) Chen, Emma H. Wilson, Jack F. Eichler*, "Synthesis, characterization, and anti tumor activity of unusual pseudo five coordinate gold(III) complexes: Distinct cytotoxic mechanism or expensive ligand delivery systems?" Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2014, 141, 121-131. (Link to Article) Edward M. Laguna, Pauline M. Olsen, Michael D. Sterling, Jack F. Eichler, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Catharine H. Larsen *, "Structure and Properties of Neutral and Cationic Gold(III) Complexes from Substituted 2-(2'-Pyridyl)quinoline Ligands", Inorganic Chemistry, 2014, 53(23), 12231-12233. (Link to Article) Chinar D. Sanghvi, Pauline M. Olsen, Catherine Elix, Shifang (Bruce) Peng, Dongsheng Wang, Zhuo (Georgia) Chen, Dong M. Shin, Kenneth I. Hardcastle, Cora E. MacBetha, Jack F. Eichler, "Antitumor Properties of Five-Coordinate Gold (III) Complexes Bearing Substituted Polypyridyl Ligands" Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2013, 128, 68-76. (Link) S. Tosonian, C. Ruiz, A. Rios, E. Frias, and J.F. Eichler. "Synthesis, characterization, and stability of iron (III) complex ions possessing phenanthroline-based ligands." Open Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2013, 3, 7-13. (open access journal; link to journal). A. Wein, A. Stockhausen, K.I. Hardcastle, S. Peng, G. Chen, R. Saadein, and J.F. Eichler.* "Tumor cytotoxicity of 5,6-dimethylphenanthroline and its corresponding gold(III) complex." Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2011, 105(5), 663-668. S.Y. Lee, A. Hodges, K.I. Hardcastle, R. Saadein, and J.F. Eichler.* "A report describing the effect of di-2- pyridyl ligand architecture on the coordination properties with gold(III)." Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2011, 368(1), 252-256. Z. Hudson, C. Sanghvi, M. Rhine, J.J. Ng, S.D. Bunge, K.I. Hardcastle, R. Saadein, C.E. MacBeth, and J.F. Eichler.*"Gold(III) coordination compounds possessing substituted phenanthroline ligands: To bind or not to bind?" Dalton Transactions, 2009, 7473-7480. A. Wein, R. Cordeiro, N. Owens, H. Olivier, K.I. Hardcastle, and J.F. Eichler*, "Synthesis and characterization of copper(II) paddlewheel complexes possessing fluorinated carboxylate ligands." Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2009, 130, 197-203.