Dr. Laurie S. Starkey E-Mail: lsstarkey@cpp.edu Discord @LaurieStarkey: server Google Voice: 714.855.1702 Current Schedule Organic Chemistry Teaching Resources

Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, teaching Organic Chemistry lecture and laboratory classes. Textbook Author My most recent professional endeavor was working as a co-author to David Klein's best-selling textbook, and the Klein-Starkey 5th Edition of Organic Chemistry was released in March 2025. I also authored an organic synthesis textbook: Introduction to Strategies for Organic Synthesis (2nd edition). Here is a list of all my Presentations & Publications Teaching with Technology I am a strong proponent for using technology to support student success, and I have created a repository of active learning resources for Organic Chemistry, called ChemistryConnected. I have developed online lab animations & tutorials, online prelab quizzes, organic chemistry "clicker" questions, worksheets for "flipped" classrooms, and online organic chemistry lectures for Educator.com. Getting motivated! Since 2020, I have helped facilitate Motivating Learners Course training sessions for CPP faculty. Here is a collection of Student Motivation & Video Creation resources. Service to the Community I worked for ten years on the Chemistry GRE, I served as a peer reviewer for MERLOT, and I enjoy giving chemistry career presentations. Here is my OrganicERS spotlight, and please visit my YouTube channel ChemistryConnected to find lectures and hands-on science demos for K-6 students.

Course Materials

• CHM 3140 Organic Chemistry I lecture: homepage | most recent syllabus | sample exams: Exam 1, Exam 2, Exam 3, Final Exam
  
  
• CHM 3150 Organic Chemistry II lecture: homepage | most recent syllabus | sample exams: Exam 1, Exam 2, Exam 3, ACS Final

• CHM 3150L Organic Chemistry II lab: homepage | schedule | most recent syllabus | Spectroscopy (IR/NMR) | lab techniques
  
  
• CHM 4220 Organic Synthesis lecture: homepage and syllabus and textbook
  
  
• CHM 4220L Organic Synthesis lab: syllabus | schedule | lab techniques
  
  
• CHM 424 Organic Analysis lecture: homepage and syllabus
  
  
• CHM 424L Organic Analysis lab: syllabus | schedule | lab techniques
  
  

Publications & Presentations Teaching & Learning Resources

• "Organic Chemistry, 5th edition" undergraduate textbook by David Klein and Laurie Starkey, Wiley (2025) Amazon.com
  
  
• "For the Love of Chemistry: G.P.S. Guidance for Motivating Students" Starkey, L.S. Wiley Presentation (Webinar, November 2024) Pp slides
  
  
• "Using Videos in Teaching Organic Chemistry" Starkey, L.S. Wiley Presentation (Webinar, November 2023) Pp slides
  
  
• "Gathering Resources & Planning for a Foolproof Flipped Classroom" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) Purdue University (August 2022) PDF
  
  
• "G.P.S. Guidance for Building Community and Motivating Students" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) Purdue University (August 2022) PDF
  
  
• "Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: A Systematic Approach to Solving ¹H NMR Problems" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) Purdue University (August 2022) PDF
  
  
• "Getting Students to Read the Textbook, and other Secrets to Unlocking Student Motivation" Starkey, L. S. Wiley Presentation, BCCE Purdue University (August 2022)
  
  
• "Course Redesign to Unlock Student Engagement" Starkey, L. S. Wiley Presentation (Webinar, December 2021) Handout PDF
  
  
• "Are the students laughing at my jokes?  How to connect and build community in the times of COVID-19" Starkey, L. S. Gradescope User Summit Webinar (March 2021) PowerPoint PDF
  
  
• "Remote Classrooms 2021 & Beyond: Teaching/Tech Strategies, Motivate & Build Community" Starkey, L. S. Wiley Organic Chemistry Webinar (March 2021) PowerPoint PDF
  
  
• "Are the students laughing at my jokes?  How to connect and build community in the times of COVID-19" Starkey, L. S. CSU Chancellor's Office Equity & Engagement webinar (Online, November 2020) PowerPoint PDF
  
  
• "Teaching Online Organic Chemistry 'Labs' and Lectures: Moving Beyond Survival Mode" Starkey, L. S. Wiley webinar (October 2020) PowerPoint, and Wiley's Wicked Summer Camp webinar (July 2020) PowerPoint PDF
  
  
• "Video Creation for Teaching & Learning" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at Wiley STEM Teaching & Learning Workshop (San Antonio, March 2020), PowerPoint and handout
  
  
• "Today's EdTech: Getting tuned in, turned on, and building relationships" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at Wiley STEM Teaching & Learning Workshop (San Antonio, March 2020), PowerPoint and handout
  
  
• "Demystifying Organic Chemistry with 'Skills-Based' Active Learning " Starkey, L. S. Wiley webinar (November 2019) Video and PowerPoint
  
  
• "Teaching with Videos and Animations: Tuning in, Getting Turned on, and Building Relationships," Starkey, L. S. In Videos in Chemistry Education: Applications of Interactive Tools; Parr, J., Ed.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2019; Vol. 1325, pp 35-51.   
  
  
• "Today's EdTech: Getting tuned in, turned on, and building relationships" Starkey, L. S. Wiley webinar (March 2019), Teaching & Learning Summits (Phoenix, February 2019 and Miami, March 2019) PowerPoint and handout
  
  
• "Introduction to Strategies for Organic Synthesis, 2nd Edition" Starkey, L. S. An undergraduate or beginning-graduate level textbook published by Wiley (2018). Amazon.com
  
  
• "Today's EdTech: Getting tuned in, turned on, and building relationships" Starkey, L. S. Seminar at Florida Gulf Coast University, September 2018 PowerPoint and handout
  
  
• "Creating videos and animations to enhance Organic Chemistry lecture and laboratory instruction" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, March 2018. Abstract, PowerPoint and handout
  
  
• "Technology-Infused Teaching for Better Engagement & Student Success" Starkey, L. S. Cal Poly Pomona Wall of COOL seminar, March 2018 PowerPoint
  
  
• "Hi-Tech and No-Tech Tools for Engagement & Student Success" Research-Based Course Redesign Institute, Cal Poly Pomona, August 2017 PowerPoint and handout and references Cal Poly Pomona PolyTeach, April 2017
  
  
• "Technology-Infused Organic Chemistry: Course-Redesign with Technology (CSU-CRT)" poster
  
  
• "Mind-tricks for Mastery: Redesigning an Organic Chemistry Course by Focusing on Productive Persistence (a Non-Technology CSU-CRT project)" poster and references
  
  
• "Technology-Infused Teaching for Engagement & Student Success" Starkey, L. S.Wiley EdTech Forum, March 2017 PowerPoint and handout (pdf, PowerPoint), (Wiley EdTech, February 2016: Exam Wrapper and Grade-Predicting Clicker Question /ChemDraw)
  
  
• "Technology-Infused Teaching: Better, Stronger, Faster" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the Cal Poly Pomona Faculty Center for Professional Development, January 2014. (PowerPoint slides)
  
  
• "Introduction to Strategies for Organic Synthesis" Starkey, L. S. An undergraduate or beginning-graduate level textbook published by Wiley (2012). Amazon.com
  
  
• "Online Tutorials and Computer Animations for the Organic Chemistry laboratory" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the 2YC3 syposium at Mt. SAC, California, March 2011 and at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, March 2010.
  
  
• "Using an Online Writing Assignment to Teach About Resonance and Acid Strength" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, March 2010.
  
  
• "Online Laboratory Demonstrations: Design, Implementation & Impact" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentation at the 235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, April 2008.
  
  
• "Using Online Quizzes to Improve Student Learning" Starkey, L. S. Oral presentationat the 235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, April 2008.
  
  
• "Calibrated Peer Review (CPR): Getting the Most Out of a Writing Assignment" Presented seminars and workshops for faculty, 2002-2007.
  
  
• "The Use of Stick Figures to Visualize Fischer Projections" Starkey, L. S. J. Chem. Ed.,78, 1486-1487 (2001).
  
  
• "The Total Synthesis of (S,S)-Isodityrosine" Jung, M. E.; Starkey, L. S. Tetrahedron, 53, 8815–8824 (1997).
  
  
• "New  Preparation of o-Aryloxyphenols via Cyclohexenone Oxides" Jung, M. E.; Starkey, L. S. Tetrahedron Lett. 36, 7363–7366 (1995).
  
  

Handouts NMR, IR, Mass Spec handouts & Spectroscopy lectures Organic Chemistry: What to Expect How to Earn an A (...or B) Functional Group Summary Organic Synthesis handouts

Resources for Students Lab Resources, including: TLC simulator, Extraction animation, Distillation apparatus and tutorial (other tutorials) Practice with Line Drawings and introduction to hybridization Nanotube wikis: 2009, 2010, 2016 Creative chemistry: "Chemists Know" Frozen parody Chemistry is an Extreme Sport Periodic Table song Periodic Table Haiku Funny Chemical Names American Chemical Society Organic model kits are available for $20 through the SMACS club, or http://www.darlingmodels.com (Organic Kit #3 is recommended)

Interests & Activities

I earned my Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at UCLA with Professor Mike Jung in 1996 and my B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in 1991. I have been teaching at Cal Poly Pomona since 1996. My greatest joy is teaching and I am honored to have received the Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013 (video and Teaching with Technology presentation). For 30 years, I served as an advisor to Cal Poly Pomona's chemistry club, the Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) and many years for the Pre-Dental Society. These days, my personal life revolves around my family. We love the outdoors and we do a lot of traveling every summer. (story and graduation) I also enjoy golfing, going to the movies, camping, kayaking, watching football (I'm a big Dallas Cowboys fan), and all things Star Wars. My biggest hobby is collecting PEZ dispensers!

Last updated February 2026

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