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Becca Stimson is an associate lecturer of chemistry and the general chemistry laboratory director at UTC. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Department of Chemistry faculty member Becca Stimson initially began teaching at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2008, she figured she\u2019d be a short-timer in the classroom after a 26-year career in the corporate world.<\/p>\n

Heck, chemistry wasn\u2019t even the subject she was teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just expecting to maybe do this for a few years and have some fun,\u201d Stimson recalled. \u201cI wanted to teach in the business school because I had spent the last 15 years in the business world as a global business manager.\u201d<\/p>\n

But a one-year stint as adjunct faculty in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business wasn\u2019t the right fit; she was a research chemist at heart, complete with a Ph.D. in chemistry and a long career with the DuPont chemical company on her resume.<\/p>\n

The teaching bug, however, had bitten her.<\/p>\n

A few years later, Stimson reached out to Dr. Gail Meyer, a longtime member of the UTC chemistry department, to inquire about teaching positions.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be the beginning of a next career. Stimson is now in her second decade as a non-tenure-track faculty member at UTC, serving as an associate lecturer of chemistry and the general chemistry laboratory director.<\/p>\n

Approximately 30% of UTC faculty are non-tenure-track.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve found my role,\u201d Stimson said. \u201cI don\u2019t feel like a true academic. I mean, I went through the Ph.D. program and at the end of that, you make a decision\u2014you\u2019re either going to be an academic or you\u2019re going to go into industry. That was the route I chose.\u201d<\/p>\n

After earning a bachelor\u2019s degree from Davidson College in North Carolina and a combined master\u2019s\/Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanton, Illinois, Stimson was hired as a bench chemist\u2014a chemist whose main job is research\u2014for DuPont. She worked in a research lab for several years before moving into technical supervision.<\/p>\n

Stimson then had the opportunity \u201cto experience all the different disciplines within a business,\u201d culminating with an extended role as a global business manager. After 26 years at DuPont, she was ready to try something new.<\/p>\n

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Becca Stimson has made it a mission to connect with the students and help “demystify” science.<\/p><\/div>\n

These days, Stimson\u2019s main course load is the general chemistry sequence, which Professor of Chemistry Keenan Dungey, the head of the department, described as a gateway course.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll chemistry majors, all physics majors, all biology majors, all engineering majors, anyone who\u2019s pre-med takes that first Gen Chem 1\u2014which is often one of their first courses,\u201d Dungey explained, \u201cand it\u2019s a big shock for most students to make that transition from high school to a rigorous college science course. Becca really cares about the students and tries to help them get through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what UTC wants to see in our non-tenure-track faculty are teaching-focused lecturers. Becca is a great example of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dungey noted that Stimson applied for and was accepted into a National Science Foundation-funded summer workshop a couple of years ago, a seven-week-long program on how to make Gen Chem courses more inclusive for diverse student populations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI announced it to the department and she raised her hand and said, \u2018Yes, I want to do that,\u2019\u201d he said, \u201cand she devoted the time to do that, completed the course and has implemented things in her class and shared those ideas with us to help spread the wealth of the knowledge that she\u2019s accrued to help our diverse students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with teaching gateway courses, Stimson has developed a new CHEM 1999r course designed to increase retention.<\/p>\n

She has made it a mission to connect with the students and help them navigate their early days on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the time,\u201d Stimson said, \u201cI think students coming here feel like science is hard, so plain language is helpful. It gives people confidence. You don\u2019t have to be the smartest kid in class to appreciate science. There are all different kinds of ways to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess demystifying it is maybe a better way to say it. We can talk jargon all day long and it makes you look like you know a lot. You can pronounce these big long molecules and that kind of thing, but we need to use plain language.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stimson said connecting with people was essential to her DuPont success, where she worked \u201cwith a diverse population. As I moved into the business world, I was working with people from around the world\u2014which I loved.\u201d<\/p>\n

She brings her DuPont perspectives to the classroom. Over the last few years, she has incorporated a mini-lecture on the Flint, Michigan, water crisis into her lectures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI go through the Flint water crisis to show real people,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were in a bad situation and had to learn to advocate for themselves. There was obviously science going on there. Being able to grapple with that is a great example of using critical thinking skills in the field of science.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think my appreciation for that came from the corporate world because it was a technology company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dungey said she definitely brings a different point of view to the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cChemistry is a very applied science, a very practical science, so I think it helps that she knows what one can do with chemistry outside of a research lab,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe I work with five grams of material, whereas DuPont works with train car loads of materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students need to know what\u2019s life like outside the teaching chemistry lab. She helps bring that perspective to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to receiving recognition for her efforts in recruiting and retention, Stimson has had the chance to work with high school students participating in the American Chemistry Society\u2019s Chemistry Olympiad.<\/p>\n

What was supposed to be a brief dabble with teaching continues to evolve and grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did wonder what it would be like to teach,\u201d Stimson said. I don\u2019t have a research program and I\u2019m not interested in that at this point. I\u2019ve enjoyed teaching and I\u2019ve found a place within teaching where I think I\u2019m additive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hopefully getting freshman chemistry students more interested in science than they might\u2019ve thought they would\u2019ve been.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a 26-year career at the DuPont chemical company, Becca Stimson is now in her second decade as a non-tenure-track faculty member at UTC, serving as an associate lecturer of chemistry and the general chemistry laboratory director.<\/p>\n

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