Patricia Kay Jue teaches the majority of the organic chemistry lab sections. As coordinator, she develops experiments for the CHEM 263 and CHEM 264 (organic chemistry I & II) courses. Contributions include aspects of microscale synthesis and green chemistry, and facilitating student use of research-quality instrumental techniques (NMR, IR, GC/MS). Her most recent major contribution was the renovation of the organic chemistry teaching laboratories, from conception with the SWBR architectural firm to final move in. Pictures of the space appear throughout the Colgate University’s website.
Dr. Jue teaches “The Story of Colorants,” a course in the scientific perspectives component of the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum. The course is an elective in Colgate’s interdisciplinary minor in Museum Studies. She helped design and build archival storage boxes for the Picker Art Gallery’s collection of Coptic limestone sculptures, and contributed to the “Converging Perspectives” (2016) exhibit, served as technical consultant fro the Picker Gallery exhibition Works in Progress: Original Materials from the Netherlands (2020) and contributed to the Teagle Tsunami scroll project.
Dr. Jue's most recent presentation was "Using Art and Archaeology Collections to Encourage Students to Find Their Own Voice in Chemistry Communication" an invited presentation at the 2022 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (Purdue University -July 31- Aug 4, 2022), as part of the “Teaching Chemistry through Art and Archaeology” symposium.
Other activities and interests
- Foodways: culture and identity as expressed though food
- The science of food
- Lay preacher
- Metal smithing and enameling
- Classical ballet: Dr. Jue studied with the Maryland Youth Ballet, the National Capital Ballet School (Australia) and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
