SELECTED AWARDS:

Association of Women in Science (AWIS), Seattle Chapter Award for Excellence in STEM Education/Outreach, 2022 (Press release)

Outreach Volunteers of the Year award for the Puget Sound Local Section of the ACS, 2022

Faculty Achievement Award – given by the President of The Evergreen State College, 2014

Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award For excellence in developing and teaching a year-long physical and inorganic chemistry program, awarded by The Evergreen State College, 1993

BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS PUBLISHED:

  • Mole Concepts and Stoichiometry: A Chemistry Workbook for Success, Linus Learning, Ronkonkoma, NY,2017.
  • “Preventing Mole Concepts and Stoichiometry from Becoming “Gatekeepers” in First Year Chemistry Courses.” In Enhancing Retention in Introductory Chemistry Courses: Teaching Practices & Assessments, Chapter 8, 2019, 121-136. ACS Symposium Series, Volume 1330

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2010:

1.     Cover Page Article – An Interdisciplinary, Project-Based Inquiry into the Chemistry and Geology of Alkaline Surface Lake Waters in the General Chemistry Laboratory. A. M. R. P. Bopegedera and Christopher L. Coughenour. J. Chem. Educ. 2020, 98, 1352–1360

  • Cover Page Article – “Greening” a Familiar General Chemistry Experiment: Coffee Cup Calorimetry to Determine the Enthalpy of Neutralization of an Acid–Base Reaction and the Specific Heat Capacity of Metals, A. M. R. P. Bopegedera, K. Nishanthi R. Perera. J. Chem. Educ., 2017, 94, 494–499

3.     The Analysis of Dolomitic Marble: A Multifaceted Problem for General Chemistry Students, A. M. Ranjika P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ. 2022, 99, 964-974

4.     Student-Driven, Curriculum-Embedded Undergraduate Research Experiences (SD-CUREs) in the Senior Chemistry Curriculum and its Impact on Students. A. M. R. P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ.  2021, 98, 2549-2558

5.     Chemistry in the Public Library: A Long-Standing, Valuable Community Partnership. A. M. R. P. Bopegedera. J. Chem. Educ. 2021, 98, 1256-1265

6.      Using Familiar and New Assessment Tools in Physical Chemistry Courses During COVID-19, A. M. R. P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ., 2020, 97, 3260–3264

7.      A Second Look at the Kinetics of the Iron–Oxygen Reaction: Determination of the Total Order Using a Greener Approach, A. M. R. P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95, 1897–1899

8.      Tie-dye! – An engaging activity to introduce polymers and polymerization to beginning chemistry students, A. M. R. P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ., 2017, 94, 1725–1732

  • Analysis of copper-bearing rocks and minerals for their metal content using visible spectroscopy: A first year chemistry laboratory exploration, A. M. R. P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ., 2016, 93, 1616–1622
  • Quantitative determination of iron in limonite using spectroscopic methods with senior and general chemistry students: Geology-inspired chemistry lab explorations, A.M.R.P. Bopegedera, Christopher L. Coughenour, and Andrew J. Oswalt, J. Chem. Educ., 2016, 93, 1916–1922
  • A Laboratory Experiment Investigating the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Calcareous Organisms, Alokya P. Perera and A.M.R.P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ. 2014, 91, 1951-1953
  • Putting the Laboratory at the Center of Learning Chemistry. A. M. R. P. Bopegedera,  J. Chem. Educ., 2011, 88, 443.
  • A Guided-Inquiry Lab for the Analysis of the Balmer Series of the Hydrogen Atomic Spectrum. A. M. R. P. Bopegedera, J. Chem. Educ., 2011, 88, 77.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2010:

  1. Nuclear Chemistry Self-Study in the First-Year Chemistry Curriculum, Washington College Chemistry Teachers Association Conference, 2019
  2. Preventing mole concepts and stoichiometry from becoming “gatekeepers” in the first-year chemistry courses, Biennial Conference in Chemical Education, 2018.
  3. Evaluating the economic viability of a “copper mine” in the first-year chemistry laboratory using visible spectroscopy, ACS Spring National Meeting, 2017.
  4. From the Fire: The Art and Science of Ceramics. Biennial Conference in Chemical Education, 2016.
  5. Kinetics of the Carbon Dioxide Hydration Reaction: Qualitative and Quantitative Experiments for First-Year and Physical Chemistry Students, ACS Spring National Meeting, 2015
  6. The Greening of a Familiar General Chemistry Lab Experiment – “Coffee Cup Calorimetry”, Washington College Chemistry Teachers Association Conference, 2013
  7. Quantitative determination of anions and cations in dolomitic marble. Society of Western Analytical Professors Symposium, 2012