Coordinator: Women In Science,
Health and Medicine cohort, Elizabeth Somers Women's
Leadership Program
The George Washington University
2100 Foxhall Road, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
e-mail: EisenL at GWU.edu
Phone: (202) 242-6692
Fax: (202) 242-6669
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry,
University of Maryland, College Park MD
A.M. Physical Chemistry, Harvard
University, Cambridge MA
A.B. Chemistry (cum laude), Radcliffe
College, Cambridge MA
Midwood High School, Brooklyn NY
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“The Science of
Terrorism”, an interdisciplinary course using case studies to
engage non-science majors.Included in Making
Chemistry Relevant: Strategies to Include All Students in a
Learner-Sensitive Classroom Environment, (Editor, Sharmistha Basu-Dutt) John
Wiley, 2010.
"A Closer Look at
Trends in Boiling Points of Hydrides: Using an Inquiry Based
Approach to Teach Intermolecular Forces of Attraction" by
Samantha Glazier, Nadia Marano, and Laura P. Eisen.J. Chem. Educ., 2010, 87 (12), pp 1336–1341.
"The Role of Entropy in the Solubility of
Ionic Compounds", by Laura Eisen, Nadia Marano, and Samantha
Glazier, in preparation.
RECENT WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Invited presentation: "An
inquiry-based module for teaching about solubility", Biennial
Conference on Chemical Education, Penn State U., July 2012
Workshop leader: "Inquiry-based activities
for general chemistry: Entropy and Solubility" Biennial
Conference on Chemical Education, Penn State U., July 2012
Poster presentation "The Role of Entropy in the Dissolution of
Ionic Solids", Gordon Conference on Chemical Education, Davidson
College, June 2011
Leader/Co-leader of workshops "Inquiry-based activities for
general chemistry: I-Intermolecular forces" and "Inquiry-based Activities for General
Chemistry II-Entropy", Biennial Conference on Chemical
Education, University of North Texas, Denton, TX August 2010
Invited Presentation:"The Science
of Terrorism: A Case-based Course for Non-Science Majors",
Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, San Juan PR,
October 2009
"The Science of Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary First Year
Seminar for Non-Science Majors"
and "Using the ACS General Chemistry Text to
Enhance Inquiry", Biennial Conference on Chemical Education,
Bloomington IN, 2008
Leader: American Chemical
Society's Advanced High School
Chemistry Teacher Training Workshops:
St. Mary's College, Moraga
CA, July 2008
Duquesne University,
Pittsburg PA, July 2008
California State
University at Northridge, Northridge CA June 2007
Duquesne University,
Pittsburgh PA, June 2006
American Chemical Society "Chemistry" textbook workshops:
19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education,
Purdue University, Bloomington IN July 2006
2YC3 Meeting, Harper College, Palatine IL,
November 2005
ChemEd Meeting, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver BC, August 2005
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American
Chemical Society, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ, May 2005.
New
England Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society,
Rochester NY, October 2004.
18th
Bienniel Conference on Chemical Education, Iowa State
University, Ames IA, July 2004
Member, 2nd Term General Chemistry Exam
Committee, American Chemical Society Examinations Institute
(2012 - present)
Member, !st Term General Chemistry
Exam Committee, American Chemical Society Examinations Institute
(2008 - 2010)
Invited participant: Conference for "Teacher Leaders" for the
American Chemical Society's Advanced High School Chemistry
Teacher Training Workshops
(Spring 2006, 2007, 2008)
Chair: Chemistry in Context
Examination Committee, American
Chemical Society Examinations Institute (2004 - 2006)
Member: American Chemical Society Division
of Chemical Education Biennial Conference Committee (2006 -
present)
Website liaison for the BCCE Committee to the
Division of Chemical Education (2008 - present)
Member: American Chemical Society
Division of Chemical Education Long Range Planning Committee
(2006 - present)
Member:
Special General Chemistry Examination Committee, American
Chemical Society Examinations Institute (2002 - 2004)
Field tester for "Chemistry", a new general
chemistry textbook from the American Chemical Society (published
by W.H. Freeman)
GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Member of the
Learning Working Group of the President's Innovation Task Force,
2009 - 2010.
Member of the University Task Force on Colonial Inauguration and
the First Year Experience, 2008 - 2009
Member of the Education Policy Committee of the Faculty Senate,
2008 - 2009, 2009 -2010
Chair
of the advising subcommittee 2008 - 2009
Recipient of Columbian College "Advisor of the Year" award, 2008
- 2009
Member: Health Professions Advisory Committee (HPAC) 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009
Member: Faculty search committees for University Writing
Program: Spring 2005, Spring 2006
Member: GW University Writing Advisory Council (2003 - 2007)
Member: Writing in the Disciplines Committee (2003 - 2006)
Member: Hewlett
Project Steering Committee
Selected to
teach a Dean's Seminar on The Science of Terrorism, Fall 2004,
2005, 2006.
Panel
Moderator, University Writing Conferences, April 2003,
2004, 2005
First year
advisor, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. 2008.
PRIOR EMPLOYMENT:
7/96 - 8/00 Associate Professor of
Chemistry, with tenure, and Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Programs, Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
2/92 - 6/95 Chair, Division of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, Trinity College
8/90 - 6/96 Clare Boothe Luce Assistant
Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Programs, Trinity College
9/84 - 9/89 Postdoctoral Fellow and
Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda MD.
2/84 - 8/84 Chemist, Laboratory of
Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda MD.
9/82 - 1/84 Guest Worker, Laboratory of
Developmental Pharmacology, National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda MD.
9/81 - 5/83 Adjunct Professorial
Lecturer, George Washington University, Washington D.C.
(general chemistry, physical chemistry, thermodynamics,
quantum chemistry).
9/79 - 8/81 Adjunct Professorial
Lecturer, American University, Washington D.C. (general
chemistry, physical chemistry, advanced physical chemistry).
1/79 - 6/80 Instructor of Chemistry,
Capitol Institute of Technology, Kensington MD.
1/78 - 12/78 Instructor, Northern
Virginia Community College, Annandale VA.
PRIOR PUBLICATIONS:
Reichman, M.E., Foster, C.M.,
Eisen, L.P., Eisen, H.J., Torain, B.F., and Simons, S.S. Jr.
Limited proteolysis of covalently labeled glucocorticoid
receptors as a probe of receptor structure. Biochemistry
23:5376, 1984
Eisen, L.P., Reichman, M.E.,
Gametchu, B., Harrison, R.W., Thompson, E.B., and Eisen, H.J.
Monoclonal antibody to the glucocorticoid receptor: Relationship
between the immunoreactive and DNA-binding domains. J. Biol.
Chem.260:11805, 1985
Eisen, L.P., Harrison, R.W., and Harmon,
J.M. Immunochemical characterization of the rat kidney
glucocorticoid receptor. J. Biol.Chem.261:3725,
1986
Eisen, L.P. & Harmon, J.M. Activation
of rat kidney mineralocorticoid receptor. Endocrinology119:1419,
1986
Eisen, L.P., Elsasser, M.S., &
Harmon, J.M. Positive regulation of the glucocorticoid
receptor in human T-cells sensitive to the cytolytic effects
of glucocorticoids. J. Biol. Chem.263:12044,
1988.
Harmon, J.M., Elsasser, M.S., Urda, L.A.,
and Eisen L.P. Activation of the human glucocorticoid
receptor: evidence for a two-step model. J.
Steroid Biochem.31:275, 1988
Harmon, J. M., Elsasser, M.S., Eisen,
L.P., Urda, L.A., Ashraf, J.A. and Thompson, E.B.
Glucocorticoid receptor expression in "receptorless" mutants
isolated from the human leukemic cell line CEM-C7. Molecular
Endocrinology 3:734, 1989
Elsasser, M.S., Eisen, L.P., Riegel,
A.T., and Harmon, J.M. Stability and Sequence-Specific DNA
Binding of Activation-Labile Mutants of the Human
Glucocorticoid Receptor. Biochemistry 30:11140, 1991
Denton, R., Eisen, L.P., Elsasser, M.S.,
and Harmon, J.M. Differential Autoregulation of
Gluco-corticoid Receptor Expression in Human T- and B-Cell
Lines. Endocrinology133:248, 1993
GRANTS AWARDED:
Co-PI (with Dr. Sandra DeBano), NSF
Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement grant,
"Incorporating Exemplary Practices into an Interdisciplinary
Environmental Science Course for Non-Science Majors"
(grant awarded, November 2000; relinquished when Dr.
DeBano and I left Trinity College.)
Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences,
"High performance liquid chromatography for interdisciplinary
laboratory projects", The
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. (grant awarded,
January 2000; relinquished when I left Trinity College.)
Principal Investigator, NSF
Instrumentation for Laboratory Improvement grant, "Computers
for an Introductory Data Analysis Course", July '98 - June '00
Principal Investigator, NSF
Instrumentation for Laboratory Improvement grant, "Computers
for Discovery-Based Chemistry", June 1993 - November 1995
Advisory Board, Mid-Atlantic Discovery
Chemistry Project (MADCP), funded by FIPSE, 1995-1999. This
project was a joint effort of 14 undergraduate institutions to
improve chemistry education by developing and implementing
discovery-based laboratory exercises to be used in
undergraduate classes.
