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Back to DirectoryProfessor of Chemistry and Director of Health Professions Advising
Department of ScienceUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Lab:
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (January, 1994 - June, 1995)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Ph.D. Organic Chemistry; 1993
Transylvania University: BA in Chemistry, Spring, 1988
Organic chemistry, surfactant chemistry.
Organic Chemistry I, Organic Chemistry II, Macromolecules, Advanced Organic Chemistry.
Investigating the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles utilizing surfactant systems of various morphologies. Our research group has focused on the synthesis of gold nanoparticle micelles.
Adapting the Organic Chemistry laboratory curriculum to include the synthesis compounds to be utilized within the Organic Course or in other courses within the Science Dept. Current projects focus on linking three experiments into one sequence. The undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory course has utilized this procedure for several years.
Analysis of exam items for psychometric traits including item-order effects related to differentiation and difficulty.
*co-advisor is Danny Miles.
Raker, J., Murphy, K., Kreke, P., Michels, O., and Mio, Matt Preparing for Your ACS Examination in Organic Chemistry: The Official Guide ACS Publications, (January, 2020)
J. L. Reichard-Brown, P. J. Kreke, D. Swarner, and C. Weinreb Pre-Health Advising in Smaller Institutions: Comments from the NEAAHP Meeting which May Lead to Further National Discourse The Advisor, 36:1, 46-47 (2016).
P. J. Kreke, S. A. Fleming, S. A. Brouet Analogies and Mnemonic Devices for Aha! Moments in the Organic Chemistry Classroom accepted to The Chemical Educator December, 2015.
B. Branan, J. Hart, P. Kreke Preparing (and Sharing) for Change: The AAMC Pre-Health Collection The Advisor, 35:2, 17-23 (2015).
P.J. Kreke, L.J. Magid, and J.C. Gee 1H and 13C NMR Studies of Mixed Counterion, Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide/Cetyltrimethylammonium Dichlorobenzoate Surfactant Solutions: The Intercalation of Aromatic Counterions Langmuir 12, 699 (1996).
P. D. Butler, L. J. Magid, W. A. Hamilton, J. B. Hayter, B. Hammouda, and P. J. Kreke, Kinetics of Alignment and Decay in a Highly Entangled Transient Threadlike Micellar Network Studied by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering J. Phys. Chem. 100, 442 (1996).
P. D. Butler, L. J. Magid, W. A. Hamilton, P. J. Kreke and J. B. Hayter, Effects of Shear on a System of Small Rodlike Micelles. MRS Symposium Proceedings Series, volume 376 T. Neumann, B. Wuensch, Eds.; Materials Research Society: Pittsburgh, PA, 313 (1995).
P. D. Butler, L. J. Magid, W. A. Hamilton, P. J. Kreke, J. B. Hayter, and B. Hammouda, Novel Kinetics Effects in Viscoelastic Surfactant Solutions under Shear. MRS Symposium Proceedings Series, volume 376 T. Neumann, B. Wuensch, Eds.; Materials Research Society: Pittsburgh, PA, 309 (1995).