Nicole Crowder (ncrowder)

Academic Degrees

B.S., Sweet Briar College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Nicole Crowder in the News

UMW Announces Faculty Awards, Honors Faculty Emeriti

At the end of each spring semester, UMW faculty gather to approve the graduates and recognize colleagues who are retiring from their dedicated service. Departmental tributes chronicle their time in the classrooms and labs, with committees and their communities, as leaders in undergraduate research, and in their areas of study. Read more…

Seeking concept papers for Quality Enhancement Plan

Hello everyone, I am writing in my new role as Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Compliance Certification Coordinator to remind you of the upcoming deadline for the submission of concept papers for consideration as our new Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The QEP during our last reaccreditation focused Read more…

Quantum Leap

Benjamin Nguyen tugged at his blue-rimmed goggles and held his breath, a test tube teetering in his hand. A standout student from Valencia High School in Orange County, California, he knows his way around a lab, but after shattering a pair of beakers the day before, he wasn’t taking any Read more…

Nicole Crowder Presents Research and Innovative Pedagogy

K. Nicole Crowder presented an invited talk and a poster at the 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Symposium in New Orleans, LA.Her invited talk “Tethered catalysts: Self-assembled monolayers of phosphonates as a platform for heterogeneous catalysis,” was presented to a full room in the Inorganic Chemistry Division.  She presented a poster entitled “Back to grad Read more…

Nicole Crowder Presents at National Conference

Nicole Crowder, assistant professor of chemistry, presented the results of her research at the 244th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, held in Philadelphia, Penn., August 19 to 23. Her presentation, in the Inorganic Catalysis session, is entitled “Characterization and Quantitative Determination of Surface Loading of Phosphonate Monolayers on Copper Read more…
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