Título/Appointment: Catedrática Auxiliar
Departamento/Department: Química
Institución/Institution: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey
E-mail: joan.roque@upr.edu
Teléfono/Phone: (787) 738-2161, ext. 2376

Reseña/Biosketch:

Dr. Joan Roque is an alumnus of the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey and the RISE Program. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and offers the electrochemistry, general chemistry, and inorganic chemistry courses. Dr. Joan Roque completed an MEd in Adult Education, a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, focusing on organometallic complexes and homogeneous catalysis, and a postdoc in synthesis and catalysis. She is co-PI of the RISE Program at UPR-Cayey and will be offering training in mentoring & teaching best practices to faculty members. Dr. Roque is committed to creating classroom and research environments where students can flourish as well as feel comfortable and supported. To achieve this, she is constantly learning novel evidence-based mentoring and teaching best practices and advocating for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Perfiles en línea/Online profiles:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroque/

Preparación Académica/Education:

M.Ed. Adult Education

Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah

Ph.D. Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

North Carolina State University

B.S. Chemistry

University of Puerto Rico at Cayey

Áreas de investigación/Research Interests:

  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • STEM and Chemical Education
  • Qualitative Educational Research and Student Engagement

Current Funding:

  • POGIL 50k Research Award: $50,000 to collaborate with Dr. Stanley Lo at the University of California, San Diego to complete an education-based research project. Project’s Title: “Hispanic and Latine student experiences with POGIL activities in English and Spanish in General Chemistry at a Hispanic-Serving Institution”
  • UPR-Cayey FIDI: $15,000 to develop an integrated experiment for the inorganic chemistry laboratory. Project’s Title: “Development of upper division integrated experiments that simultaneously illustrate concepts and techniques from two or more chemistry subdisciplines.”
  • PR NASA Space Grant Consortium Research Award: $10,000 to support the development of experiments and support undergraduate research students.
  • POGIL SPUR+ Award: $2,500 award to collaborate with Dr. Santiago Toledo at American University to translate POGIL classroom activities and workshops into Spanish.

Publicaciones/Publications:

  1. Roque Peña, J. E.; Alexanian, E. J. Cobalt-Catalyzed Silylcarbonylation of Unactivated Secondary Tosylates at Low Pressure, Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 4413-4415.
  2. Venning, A. R. O.; Kwiatkowski, M. R.; Roque Peña, J. E.; Lainhart, B. C.; Guruparan, A. A.; Alexanian, E. J. Palladium-Catalyzed Carbocyclizations of Unactivated Alkyl Bromides with Alkenes Involving Auto-Tandem Catalysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 11595-11600.
  3. Resto, W.; Roque, J.; Colón, H.; Zayas, J. The Use of Ion Chromatography for the Determination of Clean-In-Place-200 (CIP-200) Detergent Traces Analytical Chemistry Insights 2006.

Presentaciones/Presentations:

  1. Roque, J. (2023). Student Engagement in an Introductory-Level College Chemistry Course in Relation to Students’ Lived Experiences. Presented at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey’s Faculty Symposium.
  2. Roque, J. (2023). How are Undergraduate Laboratory Experiments Developed? Presented at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey’s RISE Program.