User:Jrwhitehead

Currently serving as the Physical Sciences (Chemistry and Geology) Department Head at Wake Tech, involved in UIF through a service to Eagle Innovation Challenge, our latest iteration of Student Applied Benchmarking.

Please direct any questions regarding our UIF activities to my colleague Emily Moore (ecmoore@waketech.edu).

Serving in various roles at Wake Tech in Raleigh, NC:

Co-developer WTCC Student Applied Benchmarking Currently in small-scale piloting stages, at the suggestion of school administration, I've partnered with colleagues from Business and English to empower students to pursue student-led continuous improvement and personal ownership of their experience here at WTCC through Student Applied Benchmarking. Planning is now underway on logistics, timing, and gaining necessary buy-in from all stakeholders from faculty to students.

Co-presenter WTCC's 2015 Bellweather Award Nomination Alongside senior college administration, I assisted in presenting the SAIL Process as a potential Bellweather Award recipient in Orlando, FL in front of the awards committee. This gave me an opportunity to present WTCC as a pioneer in bottom-up governance. Founding Member and Conference Facilitator

WTCC Council of Excellence and the WTGTS Initiated by Bryan Ryan, colleagues (past and present Excellence award winners) have come together to pursue and promote investments in our faculty to spawn excellence and to serve as a creative think-tank. As a result of this cross-college partnership, the Wake Tech Great Teacher seminar was recently funded (both externally and internally from a 10k gift from Whiting-Turner). This partnership has also fostered interdisciplinary networking, future grant proposals partnering with MSE faculty (Lori Frear), and proposed PD workshops for our nursing faculty in educational tech.

CHM 090 Course Team Lead WTCC Dept. of Natural Sciences Our group was charged with bringing new CHM 090 faculty on-board and developing SLOs. Our meetings were efficient, professional, and productive- we finished our charge well ahead of schedule and are in the process of developing a course repository. Lead the Way Tech Trainer and Developer

WTCC Professional Development As a tech trainer, my team and I have developed and implemented new in-house tech PD opportunities and have had empowered faculty, a common theme throughout my projects. We've trained over 200 faculty on the use of iPads in education, and have gone on to offer advanced offerings in webconferencing, green screening, and improving audio quality in educational videos.

Main Campus Director, WTCC Honors Program As WTCC Honors Director, I've had a chance to coordinate over 100 partnerships between faculty and students, resulting in unleashed creativity, interdisciplinary partnerships, and honing student presentation skills. Since taking on directorship, I've streamlined our records process, created formal co-advising roles to promote cross-college partnerships and faculty recognition, and have recently produced a new promotional video and designed a new site for our next push for growth. We've also instituted biannual academic poster presentations to bring together faculty, staff, admin, and students from across the college. Recent focus has been directed to making growth feasible and workload reasonable upon scaling to a larger audience through a partnership with IT.

Publications:

1. Whitehead, Jason R. Exploration of calcium selectivity in protein: analysis of Ca2+ - binding proteins employing crystal structure census, computatinal analysis, and glass electrode potentiometry. (2005) Honors Undergraduate Thesis.

2. Whitehead, Jason R. Metal ion complexing and fluorescence properties of the novel hemicycle, dipyridoacridine, with computational studies on metal ion selectivity. (2007) M.S. Thesis Document.

3. Wagenknecht, Paul, S.; Hu, Chuanjiang; Ferguson, Denise; Nathan, Lawrence C.; Whitehead, Jason R.; Wright-Garcida, Kimberley; Vagnini, Michael T. Effects of Steric Constraint on Chromium(III) Complexes of Tetraazamacrocycles, 2. Comparison of the Chemistry and Photobehavior of the trans-Dichloro- and trans-Dicyano- Complexes of Cyclam, 1,4-C2-Cyclam, and 1,11-C3-Cyclam. Inorganic Chemistry (2005) 44, 25, 9518- 26.

4. Clapp, Laura A.; Siddons, Chynthia J.; Whitehead, Jason R; VanDerveer, Donald G.; Rogers, Robin D.; Griffin, Scott T.; Jones, S. Bart; Hancock, Robert D. Factors Controlling Metal-Ion Selectivity in the Binding Sites of Calcium-Binding Proteins. The Metal- Binding Properties of Amide Donors. A Crystallographic and Thermodynamic Study. Inorganic Chemistry (2005) 44, 23, 8495-502.

5. Hancock, Robert D.; Melton, Darren L.; Harrington, James M.; McDonald, F. Crisp; Gephart, Raymond T.; Boone, Lindsay L.; Jones, S. Bart; Whitehead, Jason R.; Cockrell, Gregory M. Metal Ion Complexing Properties of Highly Preorganized Non-macrocyclic Ligands. Coord. Chem. Rev., (2007)

6. Serpe, Michael J.; Kersey, Farrell; Whitehead, Jason R.; Wilson, Scott; Clark, Robert; Craig, Stephen L. A Simple and Practical Spreadsheet-Based Method to Extract Single- Molecule Dissociation Kinetics from Variable Loading-Rate Force Spectroscopy Data. J. Phys. Chem. C., (2008) 112, 49, 19163–7.

7. M. J. Serpe, J. R. Whitehead, M. Rivera, R. L. Clark, and S. L. Craig, Single- Molecule Force Spectroscopy Studies of DNA- Based Reversible Polymer Bridging: Surface Robustness and Homogeneity, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, vol 346 (2009), pp. 20- 27

8. M. J. Serpe, J. R. Whitehead and S. L. Craig, Breaking Down the Supramolecular Ensemble: Single- Molecule Studies of the Concentration Dependence of Main- Chain Supramolecular Polymer Molecular Weight Distributions on Surfaces, Austr. J. Chem, vol 63 no. 4 (2010), pp. 624- 626

9. J. Hamilton, J.R. Whitehead, N. J. Williams et al. Metal Ion Complexing Properties of Dipyridoacridine, a Highly Preorganiz ed Tridentate Homologue of 1,10- Phenanthroline. Inorganic Chemistry, Galley proof available. (2011)

Awards, Fellowships, Scholarships 10k donation from Whiting Turner with matching internal funding, WTGTS (FA2016) SAS Funding for Faculty Prof. Development in Green Screening in Ed. Videos (FA2016) SAS Funding for Faculty Prof. Development in Improving Audio in Ed. Videos (FA2016) SAS Funding for Faculty Prof. Development in Webcasting and Vodcasting (SP2016) NC State-wide Excellence in Teaching Award Finalist (SP2016) 2016 National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Award 2015 John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Award (FA2015) Wake Tech College-wide Excellence in Teaching Award (SP2015) Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships Division Excellence in Teaching Award (SP2015) Applied Benchmarking Grant funding the M.A.C.E. Project (FA2014) CBTE (Center for Biological and Tissue Engineering) Fellowship (2008-09) GPNANO (Graduate Program in Nanosicence) Fellowship (2007-08) James B. Duke Fellowship (2007-11) UNCW Chemistry Teaching Assistant of the Year Award (2006-07) William S. Deloach Fellowship (2003-04, and 2004-05) Donald R. Watson Scholarship (2004-05) UNCW Bookstore Scholarship (2004-05) Will S. Deloach Outstanding Young Organic Chemist Award (2003) Wilmington Rotary Club Scholarship (2004-05) UNCW Honors Program Scholarship (2001-02) Onslow County STEP Program Scholarship (2001-02)