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NEWS
August 22, 2025
Congratulations to Creed and Madi, who have been awarded a CURO Research Award for Fall 2025! This award comes with a $1000 scholarship for outstanding undergraduate students who actively participate in faculty-mentored research. Creed and Madi will present their research at the Spring 2026 CURO Symposium.
August 13, 2025
The group welcomes two new members starting this fall semester! Welcome, Creed and Drew!
July 28, 2025
Brandon is named as a member of the 2025 JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board! In this role, he will advise the journal and editorial team on emerging opportunities and future direction, and promote chemistry education research in the journal.
Read the editorial announcement here: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.5c00822
July 6–11, 2025
Brandon was invited to present at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry Education Research and Practice held in Lewiston, ME! Brandon's talk was in the "AI and Computational Thinking" session.
Brandon also presented a poster on his specifications grading project in organic chemistry. The title of his poster was "Evaluating the impact of grading schemes on students' motivation in organic chemistry."
June 12, 2025
Brandon presented recently published work on specifications grading at the 2025 Grading Conference. Read the full paper here, and the presentation slides can be found here.
April 27, 2025
The group had a great dinner to celebrate the end of a productive semester and to congratulate Bridget on her graduation!
January 6, 2025
Our inaugural cohort of undergraduate students join the group! Welcome, Jacob, Madi, Bridget, and Ethan!
October 30, 2024
Our inaugural graduate student joins the group! Welcome, Charishma!
July 27, 2024
Brandon traveled to Lexington, KY for the 28th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. He gave two presentations: (1) "The role of prompt engineering on ChatGPT-generated explanations of organic chemistry reaction mechanisms" and (2) "Development and validation of the Perceptions of Grading Schemes instrument". Brandon also co-organized and presided over a symposium, "Catalyzing Innovations in Chemistry Education Research: Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence".
July 1, 2024
The Yik Research Group officially starts in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia!
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