Grant Awards
NSF IUSE (National Science Foundation, Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) Award (~$300,000, PI, 2023-2026)
This is a Collaborative Research with Drs. Julia Chan and Sachel Villafane-Garcia at Californa State University, Fullerton: Award link here
California Educational Learning Lab Seed Grant Award (~$100,000, co-PI, 2020-2022)
San Fernando Valley Science Project (~$360,000, co-PI)
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Grant, 2019-2024
California State Univerisity, Northridge (PI)
Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Awards, 2018-2019; 2020-2021; 2022-2023
Faculty Success Program Grant, 2022 Spring
Probationary Faculty Support Program Grant, 2020-2021
Learning-Centered Teaching Grant, 2018-2019
Selected Publications
** = CSUN graduate student co-authors * = CSUN undergraduate student co-authors
Bahrami, P.*, Blanco, D. F., Thetford, H. R., Ye, L., Chan, J. Y. K. (2023). Capturing Student and Instructor Experiences, Perceptions, and Reflections on Remote Learning and Teaching in Introductory Chemistry Courses During COVID-19. Journal of College Science Teaching, 52(6), 6-9.
Gilewski, A.**, Litvak, M.*, Ye, L. (2022). Promoting Metacognition Through Measures of Linked Concepts with Learning Objectives in Introductory Chemistry. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 23(4), 876-884.
Moreno, C.*, Pham, D.**, Ye, L. (2021). Chemistry Self-efficacy in Lower-division Chemistry Courses: Changes After a Semester of Instruction and Gaps Still Remain Between Student Groups. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 22(3), 772 - 785.
Ye, L., Eichler, J. F., Gilewski, A.**, Talbert. L.E., Mallory, E.**, Litvak, M.*, Rigsby, E. M., Henbest, G., Mortezaei, K., Guregyan, C. (2020). The Impact of Coupling Assessments on Conceptual Understanding and Connection-making in Chemical Equilibrium and Acid-base Chemistry. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 21(3), 1000 -1012.
Gilewski, A.**, Mallory, E.*, Sandoval, M.*, Litvak, M.*, Ye, L. (2019). Does Linking Help? Effects and Student Perceptions of a Learner-centered Assessment Implemented in Introductory Chemistry. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 20(2), 399 - 411.
Prior to CSUN
Ye, L., Shuniak, C., Oueini, R., Robert, J., Lewis, S. (2016). Can They Succeed? Exploring At-risk Students’ Study Habits in College General Chemistry. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 17(4), 878-892.
Ye, L., Oueini, R., Lewis, S.E. (2015). Developing and Implementing an Assessment Technique to Measure Linked Concepts. Journal of Chemical Education, 92(11), 1807-1812.
Ye, L., Oueini, R., Dickerson, A.P., Lewis, S.E. (2015). Learning Beyond the Classroom: Using Text Messages to Measure General Chemistry Students’ Study Habits. Chemistry Education Research and Practice,16(4), 869-878.
Ye, L., Lewis, S.E., Raker, J.R., Oueini, R. (2015). Examining the Impact of Chemistry Education Research Articles from 2007 through 2013 by Citation Counts. Journal of Chemical Education, 92(8), 1299-1305.
Ye, L., & Lewis, S.E. (2014). Looking for Links: Examining Student Responses in Creative Exercises for Evidence of Linking Chemistry Concepts. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 15(4), 576-586.
Lin, Q., Liu, YG., Ye, L. (2012). Progress on Tissue Construction Technology in Vitro. Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research, 31 (2), 125-129.
He, P., Liu, YG., Ye, L. (2012). Progress in Microconstructed Technology and Bottom-up Approach for Tissue Engineering. Materials Review, 26 (11), 124-128.
Chen, AZ., Lin, XF., Wang, SB., Li, L., Liu, YG., Ye, L., Wang, GY. (2012). Biological Evaluation of Fe3O4-poly(L-lactide)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(L-lactide) Magnetic Microspheres Prepared in Supercritical CO2. Toxicology Letters, 212(1), 75-82.
Ye, L., Wang, SB. (2010). Progress in Microencapsulation of Stem Cells. Chinese Journal of Biotechnology, 26(12), 1611−1617.
Collaborators
California State University, Fullerton
Julia Chan
Assistant Professor
Chemistry Education
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Sachel Villafane-Garcia
Associate Professor
Chemistry Education
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Riverside
California State University, Northridge
Gini Vandergon
Brian Foley
Norm Herr
Matthew d'Alessio
Dorothy Nguyen-Graff
Lecturer
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry