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Academic Credentials

B.S., Clemson University
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Biography

Dr. Amanda Wright has been a member of Marymount’s faculty since 2008. Since that time, she has established Biochemistry as a major area of study at Marymount. Dr. Wright is actively engaging in teaching, where she utilizes innovative approaches such as process-oriented guided inquiry learning and case studies. She also leads several research projects with undergraduate students, many of whom have presented at local, national, or international conferences.

Dr. Wright has published several research papers in leading scientific journals and her work has been featured at international conferences, such as The Society for Neuroscience and The American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Wright is an active and engaged member of both of these organizations.

Other Information

Teaching Area

Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Molecular Biology
Virology
Genetics

Research Interests

Protein interactions that regulate axonal guidance and establishment of neuronal networks during brain development
Signaling pathways that control cell migration
Using mathematical modeling to evaluate biological systems

Publications

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Academic Credentials

B.A., Mount Holyoke College
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Biography

As a member of Marymount’s faculty since 2011, Dr. Deana Jaber has been engaged in teaching as well as research with undergraduate students. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. After that, she spent a year working at the state-of-the-art Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases in Singapore where she was involved in drug-discovery research on tuberculosis and dengue fever. In 2011, Dr. Jaber received her doctoral degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Jaber is actively involved in undergraduate research where students are engaged in research projects that have earned them authorship on several publications. Dr. Jaber’s research interest is in the field of chemistry education where she strives to develop chemistry educational tools that have been shown to enhance the student’s learning experience. Dr. Jaber has presented at local and national conferences on a variety of topics related to STEM education, case studies, and discipline-based education research.

Dr. Jaber is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society), and Phi Beta Kappa. She served as a coordinator for the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) Younger Chemist’s Committee (YCC) where she helped organize different educational and outreach events. Dr. Jaber also served as the primary organizer for the Fairfax/Arlington chemistry competition, “You Be The Chemist Challenge” (YBTC), one of the Chemical Educational Foundation’s (CEF) biggest programs.

Teaching Area

General Chemistry I & II
Organic Chemistry I & II
“Beyond Elementary,” a course dedicated to learning about the development of the periodic table, the stories behind each element’s discovery, the scientists who discovered the elements, the scientific processes that produced these discoveries, and the impact they had on the world.

Research Interests

Developing pedagogical tools for chemistry education in different formats: physical, virtual and smart applications.
Developing case studies that allow students to associate chemistry content with real-world applications.

Publications

(Names underlined are undergraduate students)

“The Evolution of Games and Case Studies for the Organic Chemistry Classroom,” Maria Camarca, Bridget Murphy, and Deana Jaber, Chem. Educator, 2022.

“Three Methods for Adapting Physical Games to Virtual Formats in STEM Courses – Easy (Google Suite), Medium (Web GL Games in Unity) and Hard (Virtual Reality),” Eric Bubar, Susan Agolini, Deana Jaber, and Amanda Wright. HCI International 2021-Posters, 2021.

“From Strawberry Fields to the Chemistry Classroom,” Simone Walker, Quyen Doan, William Hewitt, and Deana Jaber, National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, 2021.

“CHEMCompete-II: an organic chemistry card game to differentiate between substitution and elimination reactions of alcohols,” Maria Camarca, William Heuett, and Deana Jaber, J. Chem. Educ., 2019, 96, 11, 2535-2539.

“CHEMCompete: An Organic Chemistry Card Game to Differentiate between Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides,” Kristin Gogal, William Heuett, and Deana Jaber, J.Chem.Educ., 2017, 94(9), 1276-1279.

“Competitive [2,3]- and [1,2]- oxonium ylide rearrangements. Concerted or stepwise?” Deana M. Jaber, Ryan N. Burgin, Mattew Helper, Peter Zavalij, and Michael P. Doyle, Org. Lett., 2012, 14 (7), 1676-1679.

“Control of selectivity in the generation and reactions of oxonium ylides,” Deana M. Jaber, Ryan N. Burgin, Mattew Helper, Peter Zavalij, and Michael P. Doyle, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 7623-7625.

“Remote C-H functionalization: using the N-O moiety as an atom-economical tether to obtain 1,5- and the rare 1,7-C_H insertions,” Jingxin Wang, Bogdan Stefane, Deana Jaber, Jacqueline Smith, Christopher Vickery, Mouhamed Diop, and Herman O. Sintim, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1-6.

“A small-molecule dengue virus entry inhibitor,” Qing-Yin Wang, Sejal J. Patel, Eric Vangrevelinghe, Hao Ying Xu, Ranga Rao, Deana M. Jaber, Wouter Schul, Feng Gu, Olivier Heudi, Ngai Ling Ma, Mee Kian Poh, Wai Yee Phong, Thomas H. Keller, Edgar Jacoby, Subhash G. Vasudevan, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2009, 53(5), 1823-1831.

“An expedient synthesis of mellitic triimides,” Kathryn G. Rose, Deana M. Jaber, Chenaimwoyo A. Gondo and Darren G. Hamilton, J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73 (10), 3950-3953.

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Mohamad Al Hashish

Furqan Sami

Bethany Durman

Musabbir Saeed

Joseph Murray

Misbah Siddique

Esra Gumruk

Sharday Ewell

Amanda Wright

Deana Jaber