Tara Kishbaugh

Dr. Kishbaugh earned a B.S. in chemistry from Wheaton College and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Dartmouth College while studying the reactions of electron deficient indoles. While in graduate school, she taught Organic Chemistry for a year at St. Michael’s College, Winooski, Vermont. During her post-doctoral position, she explored approaches to make fluorinated allenes. Before coming to EMU, she was a Dreyfus Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts. She brings a background of significant research, publications and presentation with special concern for integrating faith and scientific study. Tara’s chemistry hobbies include photography, baking and tie-dying. Her other interests include reading fiction and chasing her Siberian husky, Sierra, out of her garden. Tara has studied the water quality of the Blacks Run for the past 4 years and plans on continuing the study of novel reactions of heterocyclic compounds in order to find elegant routes to biologically active compounds.

B.S, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois
Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Dreyfus Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth

• Phytoremediation as a Multi-Week Laboratory Project for Teaching General Chemistry Thermodynamics and Equilibrium. Cessna SG, Kishbaugh TK, Graber Neufeld D, Cessna GA, Journal of Chemical Education 2009, 86, 726-729.

• Mn(III) based radical addition reactions of 2-nitroindole with activated CH compounds. Androsov, D.A.; Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Gribble, G.W. Tetrahedron Letters, 2008, 49, 6621-6623.

• X-ray Crystal Structure Determination of 2-(4-Methoxybenzyl)-4-(phenylsulfonyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-bindole. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.;Gribble, G.W.; Jasinski, J. Acta Crystallography, E, E63, 2007, 3409.

• X-ray Crystal Structure Determination of 2-Benzyl-4-(phenylsulfonyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-bindole. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.;Gribble, G.W.; Jasinski, J. Acta Crystallography, E, E63, 2007, 3410.
• X-ray Crystal Structure Determination of 2-Isopropyl-4-(phenylsulfonyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-bindole. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.;Gribble, G.W.; Jasinski, J. Acta Crystallography, E, E63, 2007, 3408.

• X-ray Crystal Structure Determination of 2-tert_-Butyl-4-(phenylsulfonyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-_bindole. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.;Gribble, G.W.; Jasinski, J. Acta Crystallography, E, E63, 2007, 3409.

• X-ray Crystal Structure Determination of 9-(Phenylsulfonyl)-9H-carabazol-2-ol. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.;Gribble, G.W.; Jasinski, J. Acta Crystallography, C, E63, 2007, 2472-2473.

• X-ray Crystal Structure Determination of 4-Methoxy-4a-nitro-9-(phenylsulfonyl)-4,4a,9,9a-tetrahydro-1H-carbazol_2(3H)-one. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Gribble, G.W.; Jasinski, J. Acta Crystallography, C, E63, 2007, 2470-2471.

• 1, 3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of 2- and 3-Nitroindoles with Azomethine Ylides: A new approach to pyrrolo[3,4-b]indoles. Roy, S.; Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Jasinski, J.P.; Gribble, G.W. Tetrahedron Letters, 2007, 48, 1313-1316.

• X-ray Crystal Structure Determination of 6-Nitro-1-Phenylsulfonylindole. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Pelkey, E.T.; Gribble, G.W.; Jasinski, J. Acta Crystallography, C, E62, 2006, 5760-5762.

• Novel Indole Chemistry in the Synthesis of Heterocycles. Gribble, G.W.; Saulnier, M.G.; Pelkey, E.T.; Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Lui, Y; Jiang, J.; Trujillo, H.A.; Keavy, D.J.; Davis, D.A.; Conway, S.C..; Switzer, F.L.; Roy, S.; Silva, R.A.; Obaza-Nutatitis, J.A.; Sibi, M.P.; Moskalev, N.A.; Barden, T.C.; Chang, L.; Habeski, W.M.; Pelcman, B. Sponholtz, W.A.; Chau, R.W.; Allison, B.D.; Garass, S. D.; Sinha, M.S.; McGowan, M.G.; Reese, M.R.; Harpp, K.S. Current Organic Chemistry, 2005, 9 (15), 1493-1520.

• Synthesis of a Stable Indium Complex Derived from -silyl-difluorobromopropyne: Evaluation of Experimental Parameters. Arimitsu, S.; Xu, B.; Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Griffin, L.; Hammond, G.B. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 125, 2004, 641-645.

• Synthesis of N-Substituted Pyrrolo[3,4-b]indoles from 2,3 Dimethylindole. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Gribble, G.W. Synthetic Communications, 2002, 32(13), 2003-2008.

• Diels-Alder reactions of 2- and 3-Nitroindoles. A simple hydroxycarbazole synthesis. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Gribble, G.W. Tetrahedron Letters 2001, 42, 4783-4785.

• Water Runs Black: the experience of service learning in environmental chemistry Kishbaugh, T.L.S., “Faith Traditions, Spirituality and Service- Learning”, Messiah College, Grantham, PA June 1-3, 2006.

• Stream Health Monitoring. Heatwole, C.B.; Shirk, P.L.; Kishbaugh, T.L.S. Regional Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, Bridgewater, Virginia, December 7, 2005.

• Stream health assessment of the Blacks Run river. Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Cessna, S.G.; Heatwole, C. B.; Roggie, B.; Shirk, P. L. The 230th ACS National Meeting, in Washington, DC, Aug 28-Sept 1, 2005.

• Chemistry Day: Understanding Thermodynamics: Energy Entropy & Equilibrium, sponsored by the American Chemical Society , a series of six different presentations made at the Charlotte, NC National Science Teachers Association Regional Meeting, Bell, J., Kishbaugh, T.L.S., October 31, 2008.

• Planted dogwood cuttings and other native trees from the Shenandoah SWCD & Va Cooperative Extension in the EMU Riparian Zone, Spring, 2008

• Understanding Thermodynamics: Energy Entropy & Equilibrium, a series of eight different presentations made at the Detroit National Science Teachers Association Regional Meeting, Bell, J., Kishbaugh, T.L.S., October 19, 2007

• Advanced high school chemistry workshop sponsored by the American Chemical Society, co-taught by Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Swope, S., Diaz, P. Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science, Hartford, CT, July 8-11, 2007

• Advanced high school chemistry workshop sponsored by the American Chemical Society, co-taught by Kishbaugh, T.L.S.; Mitschele, J., University of St. Thomas, St Paul, MN, August 6-9, 2006

• On-going monitoring of e coli levels in the Blacks Run with EMHS and HHS for the Va Department of Environmental Quality

• Blacks Run Cleanup- educational program subcommittee

• EMU Faculty representative for the Shenandoah student chapter of the American Society for Microbiology, 2005- present

• Hosted the local student chapter meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, April 2007

• Presentation on Why EMU should “Be Green” at the Micah Gala, March 2007

• Led bread baking workshops during Food and Farming week

• National Science Foundation, Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement. “Promoting learning through authentic and relevant research experiences in environmental monitoring and remediation across ten chemistry and biology laboratory courses” Co-PI with S. Cessna, L. H. Leaman, M. Siderhurst, and D. Graber Neufeld. 2009-12

• Citizen Monitoring Grant from the Va Department of Environmental Quality, 2009.

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: Regional Study and the Liberal Arts: An Appalachian Exemplar, Ferrum College, Ferrum, Va, Summer 2006

• American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Summer Fellowship with Gordon W. Gribble at Dartmouth College, Summer 2005, Topic: Oxidative radical additions to nitroindoles

• American Chemical Society- Petroleum Research Fund Summer School in Molecular Modeling Applied to Environmental Geochemistry, Penn State University, University Park, PA

• American Chemical Society
• Shenandoah Anabaptist Science Society, chair

Relating to the Land- Interdisciplinary, team-taught senior seminar which examines the variety of ways that people groups have related to and used the land, with an emphasis on regional topics, Appalachian studies. 2006
Drugs: Discovery, Design, Action- A writing intensive medicinal chemistry course intended to teach the principles that govern the process of modern drug discovery and development and to introduce students to some modes of drug activity. 2007
Food: Science, Rituals, Lore-A honors colloquium about the ways in which we as a society relate to food. As a science, cooking may be the oldest and most widespread application of chemistry and recipes may be the oldest practical result of chemical research. While we can learn much about food by studying the chemistry of cooking it and the nutrition we gain from it, often what we eat and how we eat it are packed with meaning beyond what is scientifically measurable. 2008

Creation Care Council, 2007-present
Honors Admissions Committee, 2004- present
Pre-professional Health Committee, 2005-present
Faculty Senate, Secretary- 2006-2007
Global Village Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006, 2007-2008
Faculty Search Committee: Biology, Chemistry, Global Village Curriculum Dean, Spring 2005, 2006, 2007