Michael Hearn
Title: Professor
Office: Science Center E212
Phone: 781-283-3127
Fax: 781-283-3642
E-mail: mhearn@wellesley.edu

Bio: My teaching duties usually include strong involvement in Organic Chemistry I and Organic Chemistry II, but I also frequently teach at the Introductory Chemistry level. I teach the Organic Seminar in rotation with the other organic chemists of my department. I especially enjoy seeing the progress of students whom I have met in their first year of chemistry as they go on to study organic. I am keenly interested in working with students to help them to make the intellectual connections between chemistry and their other scientific endeavors.

I also enjoy hiking, travel and cinema, especially the films of von Stroheim, Bergman and Kurosawa.

Michael's web site

Julia Miwa
Title: Associate Professor
Office: 266A Science Center
Phone: (781) 283-3128 (office)
(781) 283-3132 (lab)
E-mail: jmiwa@wellesley.edu

Bio: My primary teaching interest is organic chemistry. I have taught both semesters of our organic sequence (211 and 313) several times and taught a seminar (Chem 319) on topics in bioorganic chemistry in the spring of 1996 and on combinatorial chemistry in the spring of 2002. I have also taught Introductory Chemistry. I am interested in alternatives to lecture in organic chemistry classes, and in incorporating current research into introductory organic chemistry. I am also interested in computer applications to chemical education, and play around occasionally with Web tutorials for organic chemistry.

Most of my free time is devoted to my husband and my daughters, Elise and Cori. I also enjoy a variety of athletic challenges. In October of 2001, I achieved one of my lifelong goals by completing the Marine Corps Marathon.

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David Haines
Title: Professor
Office: on leave 2008-2009
Phone: 781-283-3127
Fax: 781-283-3642
E-mail: dhaines@wellesley.edu

Bio: At Wellesley College, I have taught predominantly Organic Chemistry, but have also regularly taught a course in Medicinal Chemistry. I have been intensely involved in undergraduate research, having worked with over 100 students in my labs. My research centers on the synthesis of nucleoside analogs, designed based on predictions about the conformations required for biological activity. I have taken over 40 of these students to American Chemical Society Meeting to present their research.

I also enjoy collecting Quaker books and pamphlets and spending time with my wife Nancy, who owns and runs Vintage Books, a used and antiquarian bookstore in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.