Faculty Profiles

Alicia McGhee is an organic chemist who studies reaction development and chemical education. In the laboratory setting, she is particularly interested in the development of safer chemical reagents and implementing processes that reduce the use of toxic compounds and/or the generation of chemical waste. In the classroom, she is interested in implementing active learning strategies and incorporating societal themes such as social justice, the life cycle of chemicals in the environment, and information literacy. She teaches introductory and advanced organic chemistry. Before Reed, she studied organic chemistry methodology, organometallic catalysis, and natural products synthesis at the University of East Anglia (M.S.) and the University of Washington (Ph.D.).