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Professor Alegra Eroy-Reveles has published extensively in scientific and science education journals. Her national leadership in promoting improvements in chemistry education is widely recognized, as is her advocacy for the next generation of students.
Professor Alegra Eroy-Reveles has published extensively in scientific and science education journals. Her national leadership in promoting improvements in chemistry education is widely recognized, as is her advocacy for the next generation of students.
Alegra Eroy-Revels Ph.D.
Alegra Eroy-Revels Ph.D.
Alegra Eroy-Reveles has published extensively in both scientific research and science education journals. Her chemistry expertise includes protein purification, studies of transition metals, mass spectrometry and synthesizing protease inhibitors. She is also widely known as an advocate for students from under-represented groups. In fact her efforts have received national recognition in Science Magazine and in Chemical & Engineering News.
Alegra Eroy-Reveles has published extensively in both scientific research and science education journals. Her chemistry expertise includes protein purification, studies of transition metals, mass spectrometry and synthesizing protease inhibitors. She is also widely known as an advocate for students from under-represented groups. In fact her efforts have received national recognition in Science Magazine and in Chemical & Engineering News.
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Alegra was appointed in 2018 to the faculty of the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) as an Assistant Teaching Professor. She received her undergraduate degree at Amherst College, and her Ph. D. at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2008. Before returning to Santa Cruz she was a faculty member at the Univeristy of California San Francisco where she conducted research and led university-wide efforts to develop faculty learning communities in support of equity-based practices in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teaching, in the NIH-funded Program, SF Build.
Alegra was appointed in 2018 to the faculty of the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) as an Assistant Teaching Professor. She received her undergraduate degree at Amherst College, and her Ph. D. at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2008. Before returning to Santa Cruz she was a faculty member at the Univeristy of California San Francisco where she conducted research and led university-wide efforts to develop faculty learning communities in support of equity-based practices in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teaching, in the NIH-funded Program, SF Build.
“The symbol of undocumented students is the monarch butterfly, which sees no borders. I have a sticker on my laptop front and center so that when I open my laptop, that’s what students see,” says Alegra Eroy-Reveles, a chemistry professor at San Francisco State whose husband was previously an undocumented immigrant. “Our faculty is supportive of these students. We want to see these students succeed, and we want to see them graduate.”
......quotation from Chemical & Engineering News
Prof Eroy-Reveles seated in front of her classroom laptop at San Francisco State.
Professor Eroy-Reveles has served as faculty liaison for undocumented students and encourages faculty to attend the university’s UndocuAlly training program, which trains staff and faculty on how to support the undocumented student population. Started at UC Berkeley, UndocuAlly training is now offered at universities around the country.
Professor Eroy-Reveles' collaboration with her faculty colleagues has addressed the particularly challenging task of effective learning in large-enrollment general chemistry courses. Her university-level efforts to improve student learning has continued at UC Santa Cruz where she is addressing enhancements not only in student learning, but in retention of historically underrepresented students among chemistry majors, and in university-wide STEM courses. Prof. Alegra was quoted in Chemical & Engineering News saying "I love synthetic chemistry. I love making molecules, but I realized I could have a much bigger impact if I can get the next generation there, to ask really good questions. They're not going to get there unless they get through undergraduate chemistry."
Professor Eroy-Reveles' collaboration with her faculty colleagues has addressed the particularly challenging task of effective learning in large-enrollment general chemistry courses. Her university-level efforts to improve student learning has continued at UC Santa Cruz where she is addressing enhancements not only in student learning, but in retention of historically underrepresented students among chemistry majors, and in university-wide STEM courses. Prof. Alegra was quoted in Chemical & Engineering News saying "I love synthetic chemistry. I love making molecules, but I realized I could have a much bigger impact if I can get the next generation there, to ask really good questions. They're not going to get there unless they get through undergraduate chemistry."
As for many other Pajaro Valley Scholars Prof. Eroy-Reveles grew up in Watsonville where her family heritage included a mix of immigrants--Chicano, Puerto Rican and Filipino--among whom were such service-oriented professionals as teachers, nurses and church linguists.
As a young student she liked math and science so pursuing medicine aligned with her academic interests early in life. She took aim first on becoming a pediatrician, but changed her mind her senior year at Amherst College where she majored in chemistry with a minor in spanish. She received her Ph.D. degree in chemistry shortly afterwards. While teaching calculus and organic chemistry to undergraduates at UCSC, she became interested in supporting underrepresented minority students pursuing STEM majors.
During her undergraduate years Prof. Eroy-Reveles was never encouraged to seek a career in research nor supported while doing so, an experience she later found to be common among her Latino and Black peers who were also the first in their families to study science. She was quoted in Chemical & Engineering News (C&En) recently saying "We weren't knocking on doors, and the faculty weren't opening them for us. We didn't know how important it was to do research. Honestly were trying to survive and graduate."
The eye-opening experience for Alegra Eroy-Reveles happened at the annual meeting of the national Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). She was quoted by C&En saying "If SACNAS had not been in my life. I am pretty sure I would not be a Ph.D. scientist right now."
At that SACNAS meeting it was a Latina Biology teacher that re-directed Alegra's interests toward research and also "demystified the path" to achieving her doctoral degree over a dinner conversation with the biologist who described what she did in the lab and what doing research was all about.
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