CPET Seminar with Professor Neil Garg (UCLA)

In this presentation, Professor Garg will discuss the transition from being a Caltech Graduate Student (PhD, 2005, Stoltz Group) to launching his independent career at UCLA.  His seminar will pay special attention to striking a balance between research and teaching under the fierce pressures of the tenure system.  He will also describe simple exercises that have made his organic chemistry course one of the most popular classes on the UCLA campus.

Professor Garg was recently recognized as the 2015 California Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has also received the UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize (2015), the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching (2014), the Bruin-Walk.com Professor of the Year Award (2013), and the UCLA Hanson–Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011). He incorporates many innovative teaching techniques into his class, including interactive online tutorials and extra credit video assignments. He strives to make the sometimes abstract concepts of organic chemistry relevant to the lives of his students.