Beatrice BotchBeatrice Botch is the Director of General Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in Chemistry from Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois, and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Michigan State University. She completed er graduate work at Argonne National Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Thom Dunning Jr., and was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology working in the group of Professor William A. Goddard III. She taught at Southwest State University in Minnesota and Wittenberg University in Ohio before joining the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 1988. She received the UMass College of Natural Science and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award in 1999. She is one of the inventors of OWL, and she authored questions in OWL for General Chemistry. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on a number of grants and contracts related to OWL development and dissemination, and continues to develop learning materials in OWL to help students succeed in chemistry. Read More Read Less