10/05/2022
Season 2, Episode 3 Dropped! Academic Advising- why it matters and what I should do to get my KID to approach their advisor EARLY AND OFTEN.
Parents- at the end of the day we send them to college to go to class, right? All that other stuff is important too, but at the core, we expect them to learn something. And to do so, they need to understand some of mechanisms in place to help them along their academic journey. They will almost certainly struggle at some point in their studies and when they do, academic and major advisors are the key to them sorting out their problems. What can you do, parent, to encourage your student to take best advantage of this new relationship as their start their lives on campus? Join hosts Leslie and Mindy as they welcome guest Bill Tolman- chemist, department chair, advisor and dean- to the podcast. Bill is as approachable as they come on campus, but read on for his super fancy bio below. Thanks as always to my teammates Mindy Soshnik Horwitzand Geoff Easton. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Stitcher, and Spotify, and don't forget to share your favorites stories with us at [email protected] or support us at www.theparentpagepodcast.wordpress.com.
William B. Tolman received a B.S. degree from Wesleyan University (1983) and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1987). After a postdoctoral stint at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota (1990), and rose through the ranks to Distinguished McKnight University Professor. He is a member of the NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers and served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry (2009-2017). He began his current position in 2018. He also currently is Faculty Fellow in Wayman Crow Residential College. Among the honors he has received are the Searle Scholars, NSF National Young Investigator, Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awards, a Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry (2017). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society, and has published > 235 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited more than 25,000 times. He served as Associate Editor (2009-2012) and now as Editor-in-Chief of Inorganic Chemistry (2013-present). Current research in his group aims to understand copper protein active sites in enzymes and catalytic feedstock conversions and sustainable polymer syntheses.
