Beatric Botch-Faculty-Department of Chemistry-University of Massachusetts Amherst

Senior Lecturer II in Chemistry B.A., 1975, Barat College; Ph.D., 1981, Michigan State University; Postdoctoral Fellow, 1981-82, California Institute of Technology. Chemical Education
Department of Chemistry Integrated Sciences Building 661 North Pleasant Street University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-9336	office: 341F ISB fax: 413-577-0099 bbotch@chem.umass.edu OWL
Principal Research Interests Beatrice Botch is the Director of General Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry. She is a chemistry content author, and one of the inventors of OWL, the Online Web-based Learning system developed at the University. OWL is licensed by Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning and is used nationally by over 95,000 college students at 200 institutions to learn general and organic chemistry. Professor Botch has been principal investigator and co-investigator on a number of grants and contracts related to OWL development and dissemination. Current interests include developing electronically delivered learning materials to help students acquire the background needed to succeed in chemistry, and the creation of interactive electronic textbooks for general chemistry.
Representative Publications “ChemPrep: A Voluntary, Self-Paced, Online Introduction to General Chemistry,” B. Botch, R. Day, W. Vining, B. Stewart, K. Rath, A. Peterfreund, D. Hart, J. Chem. Ed. 84, 547-553 (2007). “Multimedia Simulations for Chemistry,” M. Cornell, D. Hart, B. Woolf, W. Vining, R. Day, B. Botch, Syllabus 13(3), (1999). “Designing Interactive Instructional Software: Students as Educators,” K.M. Stamm, J.T. Fermann, T. Whelan, R.R. Broudy, B. Botch, W.J. Vining, The Chemical Educator 4(1), (1999).