Didem Vardar-Ulu
Senior Lecturer Department of Chemistry
- Title Senior Lecturer
Department of Chemistry - Office SCI 358A
- Email dvardar@bu.edu
- Phone x3-2553
- Education Ph.D. in Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 2001
B.S. in Physics, Bilkent University, 1995
Research Interests
Vardar-Ulu group is interested in designing and implementing student centered interdisciplinary curricula and novel classroom assessment strategies for students interested in life sciences. Group’s research is focused on three areas: (1) developing and evaluating molecular case studies in collaboration with Molecular CaseNet (RCSB-PDB) for improving visual literacy and effective teaching of the structure-function relationship. (2) creating teaching materials by students for students. (3) developing novel competency based assessment strategies for laboratory courses that can be propagated across courses and into professional platforms.
Recognitions
- Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis BIOME Institute Fellow (2020)
- Molecular CaseNet Faculty Mentoring Network (2020-)
- BU CT&L Blended Learning Challenge Fellow (2017-2018)
- ASM-NSF Biology Research (’08-’09) and Assessment (’13-’14) Scholar
Teaching
- CH171 – Principles of Chemistry Laboratory
- CH373 – Principles of Biochemistry
- CH421 – Biochemistry 1 Laboratory
- Profile Types
- Faculty