The Lecturer Corps The Lecturer Corps serves as a bridge between select academic departments and the Office of the Dean of College. Appointed to teach STEM prerequisite courses, Corps members help a diverse community of talented students with a range of preparation levels succeed in rigorous quantitative courses and majors. The Corps program was inaugurated in 2023-24 as a partnership between three departments – Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics – and the College, and is actively supported by the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Departments with questions about the Lecturer Corps are invited to contact Elizabeth Colagiuri, Deputy Dean of the College. 2024-25 Corps Members Grace Bosse, Senior Lecturer in Physics Email: [email protected]Office: 319 Jadwin HallGrace Bosse is a senior lecturer in the Princeton Department of Physics. She is a precept instructor and the lab manager of the PHY 103/104 and PHY109/110 General Physics courses. Within the physics department, Grace serves on the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisory Board with a goal to make physics accessible and welcoming to all people. She is passionate about fostering inclusion in the classroom and was awarded an Inclusive Pedagogy Grant from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning for the 2024-2025 academic year. Previously, she was an Associate Instructor and the lab manager of the Department of Physics at the University of North Florida where she was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2021. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2015 in experimental condensed matter physics. On weekends you might see Grace walking her rescue dog Pheobe around Princeton. Come say hi! Corey Clapp, Lecturer in Chemistry Email: [email protected]Office: 221 FrickAs a member of the Lecturer Corps, Corey works within the Chemistry Department to increase the accessibility of the first-year introductory chemistry course, General Chemistry. His goal is to develop and implement a General Chemistry curriculum in which all students, regardless of educational background, will succeed. Examples of his teaching initiatives include leading and developing specialized SIFP precepts for students who wish to improve problem solving fundamentals and build community inclusion, constructing a science textbook literacy “book club,” and piloting a general chemistry-to-organic chemistry bridge summer course. In the 2023-2024 academic year, Corey served as an Instructor for CHM 207, CHM 202, and CHM 215. In the 2024-2025 academic year, he will serve as an Instructor in CHM 201, CHM 202, and CHM 215. Corey also teaches lab in the General Chemistry courses. In the coming semesters, Corey plans to improve AI training and development to increase the ability to intervene with struggling students and respond to the unique educational needs of each student cohort. Katharine Moran, Lecturer in Physics Email: [email protected]Office: 316 Jadwin HallKatharine has had a passion for education (and for physics) since high school when she first had the opportunity to work as a peer tutor. Since then, she has cultivated a career in physics pedagogy with a strong focus on peer-to-peer learning. Prior to her work at Princeton, Katharine taught for five years at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the physical sciences department. While there, she helped develop curriculum for the introductory physics course sequences, as well as managed the physics tutoring operations. In Fall 2023, Katharine joined the Princeton physics department as a member of the teaching faculty. Within the department, Katharine instructs the algebra-based foundational physics courses, primarily serving pre-med students and other life science majors. She also manages the laboratory component of these courses, which includes training and mentoring the graduate teaching assistants in physics pedagogy and best teaching practices. Additionally, Katharine is a member of the physics department’s undergraduate EDI working group. Also at the department level, she assists with the student-run physics tutoring program. At the university level, in addition to being a founding member of the Lecturer Corps, Katharine participates in the STEM+ teaching group facilitated by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Ana Mostafavi, Lecturer in Chemistry Email: [email protected]Ana received her Ph.D. in Molecular biology from Princeton University and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and an academic advisor for Forbes College. During the semester, she primarily teaches in the general chemistry series (CHM 201, 207, 202, and 215) and leads reading and writing groups for majors in the department. During the summer, she co-instructs CHM 290, a bridge to organic chemistry course. As a visiting assistant professor, she has taught MOL 345 (Biochemistry) and CHM 403 (Advanced Biochemistry). She is excited to be a part of the lecturer corps and plans to focus on methods to make STEM education more equitable for students with diverse backgrounds. John Sheridan, Lecturer in Mathematics Email: [email protected]John is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2020 under the supervision of Robert Lazarsfeld. His teaching-focused work at Princeton centers on supporting the department’s offerings in multivariable calculus and linear algebra for non-majors, mainly in MAT 175, 201, 202, and 203. Support of these courses involves lecturing as well as alternately leading and aiding with various initiatives that help students both place into and succeed in courses appropriate to their background as well as their future goals. These initiatives include orientation workshops for MAT courses at the 100- and 200-levels, a circuit of residential dining hall advising sessions in early fall/spring, Tuesday lunchtime dining hall office hours in New College West, and Monday evening study halls in the department. John also serves as a faculty mentor in the department’s graduate student teaching practicum and as an academic advisor to first- and second-year students in Whitman College. As well as teaching, John is an active member of the department’s algebraic geometry research group with a specific interest in questions concerning the connection between algebraic “positivity” and the geometry of varieties embedded in projective space. David Villalobos, Lecturer in Mathematics Email: [email protected]David is a lecturer in the Math department. His duties include teaching math classes for non-math majors—mostly MAT 175, 201 and 202—, developing new learning resources such as textbook-style notes and review videos, and providing supplementary course support for MAT 103 in the fall and MAT 202 in the spring in the form of weekly study halls and review sessions. He is also one of the organizers of the yearly math placement orientation. As such, he is well acquainted with all the 100- and 200-level MAT classes. David hosts a weekly math table for SIFP students enrolled in any 100- or 200-level MAT class. You can also find David hosting a drop-in math table on Tuesdays from 12:00-1:30pm in the NCW Community Kitchen and on Wednesdays from 6:00-8:00pm in the Forbes Private Dining Room. Please stop by if you have any questions regarding a math class you are taking or planning to take; all questions from placement advice to help on PSET problems are welcome! Related links New lecturers in chemistry, math and physics are helping to make the difference…