BS Chem (George Mason U), PhD Inorganic Chem (Montana State U) Dr Bedgood completed his Chemistry BS at George Mason U, Virginia, USA and his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at Montana State U. Following a one year teaching Post Doc at the U of Illinois (with Steve Zumdahl), Dan served as ARC Research Associate at U of Queensland (with John Hall and Trevor Appleton); this project examined interactions of small amino acids and polypeptides with Pd analogues of known anticancer agents. Following this research work Dan filled teaching roles at North Carolina State U and Arizona State U, as well as Head of Chemistry at Lenoir Community College (Kinston NC). Dr. Bedgood is a passionate teacher with over 30 experience; he has taught small classes of 4, up to large classes of 400. He particularly likes teaching large face to face classes as he enjoys wandering the classroom and sparking student group interactions. Dr. Bedgood enjoys the challenge of making chemistry relevant to student’s lives. Dr. Bedgood brought the POGIL active chemistry teaching method to Australia in 2008-2011 through a project led (ALIUS) as a collaboration of six universities to revolutionise teaching in large classrooms; this approach led to widespread changes in teaching of our classes at Charles Sturt, and a number of universities around Australia. Dr Bedgood has Coordinated or taught into a number of first year general, and upper level chemistry classes; more recently has created and Coordinated two SCI subjects that broadly examine science.
Chemistry
Dr Danny R. Bedgood, Jr.
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
Wagga Wagga
Building 288 Room 147
Dr Bedgood earned teaching awards at several universities, and has led the Chemistry Teaching Team (Charles Sturt University) to VC Team Teaching Awards in 2003 and 2011. Since 2002, awarded grants, with teams of colleagues, have totaled $1,000,000 and led to 12 refereed publications in chemical education and 25 refereed papers in chemistry research.