Jung Oh
Professor of chemistry
Jung Oh has taught the introductory, general and general organic chemistry courses
as a faculty member of the department of arts, sciences, and business at Kansas State
University at Salina since 1998.
At K-State Salina, Oh has worked on interdisciplinary scholarship projects on teaching and learning. She was one of K-State's Big 12 Fellowship recipients in 2006, a university Peer Review of Teaching Fellow in 2006 and a Wakonse Teaching Fellow in 2004. She also served as a faculty mentor and a participant in the Plains Academy Co-Op Partnership Project for curriculum revision and technology incorporation.
She has shared her scholarship activities focusing on chemistry and interdisciplinary education at various conferences, including the American Society for Engineering Education Global Colloquium on Engineering Education in 2006, the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education/Global Colloquium on Engineering Education at Australia and the 2006 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. During her tenure at K-State at Salina, Oh has been a presenter/collaborator at three international, 13 national, 16 regional and numerous local conferences.
She has opened the K-State-Salina chemistry lab for public outreach activities as a presenter/task force member for the annual Teen Women in Science and Technology career fair -- which encourages female high school students to explore science and technology -- and as a judge/session coordinator for annual regional Science Olympiad.
Oh earned her bachelor's degree with teaching credentials from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, and her doctoral degree in inorganic and organometallic chemistry from University of California at Los Angeles. Before joining K-State, she taught at the joint science department, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges in California and at Minnesota State University at Mankato. From 1992-1994 she worked at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in California as American Society for Engineering Education postdoctoral research fellow in the chemistry and materials division.
Oh is active in various professional and community organizations, including the American Chemical Society and the American Society for Engineering Education. She also has served on the Salina Community Women of Achievement selection committee since 2005.
Oh can be contacted at 785-826-2915 or jroh@sal.k-state.edu.