Rick Moog

Rick Moog has a B. A. in chemistry from Williams College and a Ph. D. in physical chemistry from Stanford University. He is currently Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the Project Coordinator for the Middle Atlantic Discovery Chemistry Project (MADCP) and is a Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator for the NSF-funded POGIL Project. Moog has been using a guided inquiry approach to teaching chemistry since 1994, and is the coauthor of POGIL materials for general chemistry and physical chemistry. In addition, he has developed guided inquiry experiments for use in the general chemistry laboratory. He has organized numerous symposia at national ACS and BCCE meetings concerning POGIL (and active learning more generally) throughout the chemistry curriculum, and has given dozens of presentations, posters, and workshops on POGIL. He is also a co-author of several journal articles and book chapters concerning POGIL, and is the co-editor of the ACS Symposium Series volume POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, which will be available in August, 2008.

Selected Publications

POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, R. S. Moog and J. N. Spencer, Eds.; Oxford University Press: New York, 2008.

Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry, 4th Edition, R. S. Moog and J. J. Farrell; John Wiley & Sons: New York, 2008.

Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry: Atoms, Molecules, and Spectroscopy, R. S. Moog, J. N. Spencer, J. J. Farrell; Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 2004.

Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry: Thermodynamics, J. N. Spencer, R. S. Moog, J. J. Farrell; Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 2004.

A Guided Inquiry Chemistry Course, J. J. Farrell, R. S. Moog, J. N. Spencer, J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 570-574.




Rick Moog
Franklin & Marshall College
Department of Chemistry
PO Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
(717) 291-3804 (Voice)
(717) 291-4343 (Fax)
rick.moog@fandm.edu