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About the Organic Lab Staff

The lecture courses are taught by the Organic Chemistry faculty on a rotating basis. The organic chemistry laboratories are managed by the Director of Undergraduate Organic Labs. The laboratory classes and recitations for lecture are taught by Teaching Assistants.

Help room schedule

The organic help room is located in Ekeley M1B32. This is a list of when the help room will be staffed by the TAs and professors (except for the first week of the fall & spring semesters). Some professors may have office hours elsewhere.

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
8:00
AM
Qiucheng
Xu
Abby
Rawlings
Cat
Avarvarei
Zihao
Yue
9:05
AM
Zach
Gekow
Alex
LaVeck
Jonathan
Lee
10:10
AM
Alec
Kolodziejczyk
Jade
Fullerton
Zachary
Blanks
11:15
AM
Jacquie
Richardson
Lily
Goulding
Jacquie
Richardson
Madeline
Herbrechtsmeier
12:20
PM
Himanshu
Gautam
Antawn
Gonzalez
Hunter
Koltunski
Zirui
Wang
1:25
PM
Andrew
Chomas
Zhehao
Yuan
Tania
Shahvali
2:30
PM
Quinn
Brink
Ashley
Ley
James
Greenwood
Timmy
Davis
3:35
PM
Phil
Pham
Diego
Arredondo
4:40
PM
Max
Abreu
Kajal

Teaching Assistants

Many TAs teach organic chemistry in any given semester. The best of these TAs are honored with either the John S. Meek Teaching Award or the Patty Feist Teaching Award. The TAs for the current semester are:

Max Abreu
Max
Abreu
Email
Diego Arredondo
Diego
Arredondo
Email
Cat Avarvarei
Cat
Avarvarei
Email
Zach Blanks
Zachary
Blanks
Email
Quinn Brink
Quinn
Brink
Email
Andrew Chomas
Andrew
Chomas
Email
Timmy Davis
Timmy
Davis
Email
Jade Fullerton
Jade
Fullerton
Email
Himanshu Gautam
Himanshu
Gautam
Email
Zachary Gekow
Zach
Gekow
Email
Antawn Gonzalez
Antawn
Gonzalez
Email
Lily Goulding
Lily
Goulding
Email
James Greenwood
James
Greenwood
Email
Madeline Herbrechtsmeier
Madeline
Herbrechtsmeier
Email
Kajal
Kajal
Email

Alec Kolodziejczyk
Alec
Kolodziejczyk
Email
Hunter Koltunski
Hunter
Koltunski
Email
Alex LaVeck
Alex
LaVeck
Email
Jonathan Lee
Jonathan
Lee
Email
Ashley Ley
Ashley
Ley
Email
Phil Pham
Phil
Pham
Email
Abby Rawlings
Abby
Rawlings
Email
Tania Shahvali
Tania
Shahvali
Email
Zirui Wang
Zirui
Wang
Email
Qiucheng Xu
Qiucheng
Xu
Email
Zhehao Yuan
Zhehao
Yuan
Email
Zihao Yue
Zihao
Yue
Email

Director of Undergraduate Organic Labs

Several people have held the position of Director of Organic Labs (a.k.a Lab Coordinator) over the past few years:

Jacquie RichardsonJacquie Richardson received her PhD in December 2010 from CU Boulder. She worked with Dave Walba on liquid crystal synthesis and characterization, and served as a TA for several semesters of grad school. She has BS degrees in both chemistry and chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. You can direct any problems, comments, constructive criticism, or praise on the new web site to Jacquie.

E-mail: Jacqueline.Richardson@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-8256
Office: Ekeley M1B30





Patty FeistPatty Feist was the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator from 1985 until her retirement in May 2010. The web site "orgchem" first came to the web in 1997, as a small web site with course information, located physically on a Mac in the stockroom. In the next decade it grew to encompass the techniques of undergraduate organic chemistry teaching labs: distillation, extraction, crystallization, drying, filtration, column, thin layer, and gas chromatography, melting points, solvent removal, and IR, NMR, and mass spectroscopy. Most of the text is authored by Patty; NMR and mass spectroscopy were authored by Tad Koch. All of the html and photo work was done by Patty. She strived to keep the pages simple so that they would both load quickly and work on a variety of platforms, and be accessible to people with disabilities. In 2009, the web site moved to the chem server, but it retains the url "orgchem.colorado.edu".

Patty is the co-author of the third edition of Organic Laboratory Techniques by Fessenden, Fessenden, and Feist (2000, Brooks/Cole Publishing/Cengage Learning). If you have any comments on this text, she'd be pleased to hear them! Any errors, suggestions for new sections, suggestions for sections to delete, sections that would be clearer if re-worded... please direct comments to her (at feist@colorado.edu) so that the next edtion can be even better.