Postdoctoral Program

Dual Mentorship Research and Teaching Postdoctoral Program

Overview: The Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan provides opportunities for postdoctoral associates who have been accepted into our research groups to also gain valuable teaching experience. Every year, since 2002, mentored teaching assignments in the regular instructional program have been available. Starting in 2015, a minimum of eight positions, per year, has been integrated into the staffing plan.

Application: These teaching positions are not derived from the traditional “teaching postdoc” model. We are interested in working with individuals who are carrying out postdoctoral research, who see themselves as joining academic departments as regular, mainstream faculty members, and who have kick-started their careers with a couple of authentic teaching experiences in the classrooms of a world-class university.

Thus, there is no formal application to this program, alone. Instead, individuals interested in these opportunities should identify a prospective research advisor through the normal channels, by contacting faculty members whose research group you want to join. Two-thirds of the year, you would be a regular postdoctoral associate in that research group; one-third of the year, you would split your time roughly 50:50 between the teaching assignment, as a Lecturer at U-M, and your normal research activity as a postdoc as a member of your research group.

During the year, CSIE|UM provides programming that is of interest to all members of our future faculty community. The CSIE|UM post-doctoral associates participate on the planning committees for all of our events. During the teaching term, we offer a variety of mentoring activities to support your teaching assignment. All of our large, introductory classes have multiple sections, and we are highly aligned and cooperative in these classes, as so quite accustomed to working with inexperienced colleagues in a larger teaching team. We also offer specific professional development activities, such as classroom observations and collective feedback, by the post-doctoral cohort to one another, to recordings of classroom teaching.

If you are interested in participating in this program, please indicate your interest as a part of your application as a postdoctoral associate in one of our research groups. If you receive an offer to join the group, your prospective research advisor with work with the CSIE|UM Director and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education to integrate you into the teaching program.

While the available spots in the teaching program vary from term to term, we will work with you and your advisor to make the timing of the teaching assignment match your interests as best as possible.

The CSIE|UM dual mentorship teaching and research post-doctoral positions are nominally available for a 2-year period. As with all post-doctoral appointments, continuation for the second year is contingent on being in good standing after the first year. The teaching assignment will be for one class section, during one of the regular terms of the academic year (Fall: Sept-Dec; Winter: Jan-Apr).

WINTER 2018 Participants (coming January 2018)

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 215
CHEM 216
CHEM 216H
CHEM 352
Post-doc
May Farhat
Meg Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Monica Perez
Gabriel Roman
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Kathleen Nolta
Research Mentor
Nils Walter
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Neil Marsh

FALL 2017 Participants***

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 215
CHEM 216
CHEM 216H
CHEM 352
Post-doc
May Farhat
Meg Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Monica Perez
Gabriel Roman
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Kathleen Nolta
Research Mentor
Nils Walter
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Neil Marsh

WINTER 2017 Participants***

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 215
CHEM 216
CHEM 216H
CHEM 352
Post-doc
May Farhat
Meg Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Monica Perez
Gabriel Roman
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Kathleen Nolta
Research Mentor
Nils Walter
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Neil Marsh

FALL 2016 Participants***

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 215
CHEM 216
CHEM 216H
CHEM 352
Post-doc
May Farhat
Meg Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Monica Perez
Gabriel Roman
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Kathleen Nolta
Research Mentor
Nils Walter
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Neil Marsh

 WINTER 2016 Participants***

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 215
CHEM 216
CHEM 216H
CHEM 352
Post-doc
May Farhat
Meg Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Monica Perez
Gabriel Roman
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Kathleen Nolta
Research Mentor
Nils Walter
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Neil Marsh

 FALL 2015 Participants***

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 215
CHEM 216
CHEM 216H
CHEM 352
Post-doc
May Farhat
Meg Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Monica Perez
Gabriel Roman
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Kathleen Nolta
Research Mentor
Nils Walter
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Neil Marsh

WINTER 2015 Participants

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 215
CHEM 216
CHEM 216H
CHEM 352
Post-doc
May Farhat
Meg Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Monica Perez
Gabriel Roman
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Kathleen Nolta
Research Mentor
Nils Walter
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe
Melanie Sanford
Neil Marsh

FALL 2014 Participants

Course
CHEM 130
CHEM 130
CHEM 130
CHEM 210
CHEM 211
CHEM 216
Post-doc
Rachel Barnard
Elena Laricheva
Esther Wertz
M. Taylor Haynes
Megan Breen
Johnathon Hutt
Teaching Mentor
Dotie Sipowska
Dotie Sipowska
Dotie Sipowska
Brian Coppola
Adam Matzger
John Wolfe
Research Mentor
Anne McNeil/John Wolfe
Charles Brooks
Julie Biteen
Anne McNeil/John Wolfe
Anna Mapp
John Wolfe

Past Participants