Gillian Rudd: DIRECTORY

Dr. Gillian Rudd earned her B.Sc. degree (honours, 2:1, 1991) in biochemistry, postgraduate certificate of education (PGCE, 1992), and Ph.D. degree (1995) in medicinal organic chemistry from the University of Warwick, England, consistently one of the UK’s top ranked universities.

In 1996, she took a Robert A. Welch Post-Doctoral Fellowship to study at Baylor University with Professor F. Gordon A. Stone, working on ruthenium organometallic complexes. From 1998 to 2011, she was an assistant, then promoted to tenured associate professor of chemistry at Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She moved to GGC in 2011 and was promoted to professor of chemistry in 2015.

She is an active member of the American Chemical Society and a faculty advisor to award winning student chemistry chapters since 1998.

• Doctorate – chemistry – University of Warwick, UK
• Master's – Postgraduate Certificate of Education in chemistry – University of Warwick, UK
• Bachelor's – chemistry – University of Warwick, UK

• Systematic inquiry about student learning in biochemistry
• Metacognition of what students choose to study at college