Cynthia Labrake

Cynthia LaBrake recieved her BS in Chemistry with Honors from West Virginia University in 1987 and her PhD in Biophysical Chemistry from Loyola University Chicago in 1992.  She completed a one year post doctoral fellowship at Loyola before relocating with her family to Austin in 1993.  She has been teaching at UT Austin since 1996.  Cynthia has been active in many curriculum reform efforts within the College including the co-creation of the Hands on Science Teaching program (now UTeach Primary), development work on the ChemBridge dual high school credit course, the web based general chemistry course,  the transformation of the general chemistry courses including the creation of a learning assistant training course, and the curriculum redesign project in the Department of Molecular Bioscinces.  She shares her teaching and learning expertise across the campus via her service in the Provost Teaching Fellows a program and by serving on a variety of committees, most recently the University Committee on Badging where she will serve as the inaugural chair of the Badging Review Board. Her interests include active learning, employing undergraduate course assistants to teach active learning at scale and provide experiential learning opportunities for the assistants, program development and assessment, and curricluar reform.  

Courses

BCH369 Fundamentals of Biochemistry

CH301  Chemical Principles I

CH302  Chemical Principles II

CH304K  Chemistry in Context I

CH305  Chemistry in Context II

CH372C  Peer Teaching and Learning

NSC306K Science for the 21st Century I

NSC306L  Science for the 21st Century II

NSC306M  Science for the 21st Century III