Increasing 2-yr Student Graduation and Transfer Rates through STEM Industrial and Academic Partnerships

Dr. PAMELA LEGGETT-ROBINSON is the Science Department Chair and an Associate Professor of Chemistry on the Decatur campus of Georgia Perimeter College. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Georgia State University and M.S. in Bio-Inorganic Chemistry from Tennessee Technological University. She received her Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from Georgia State University in 2003. Dr. Leggett-Robinson is the Principal Investigator of GPC’s $1.5 million NSF STEP grant and continues to work closely with as other STEM committees as well as on graduation/transfer committees. Dr. LeggettRobinson is published in the Journal of College Science Teachers, Polymer, the Journal of Undergraduate Chemical Research, Heterocyclic Communications, the Journal of Oncology and Hematology, and The Chemical Educator. She has made numerous presentations at both national and regional scientific meetings and has been featured in in a TRIO publication (Council of Education) highlighting ”Academic AllStars”, in the ACS publication In Chemistry, in a Science Education publication from Cornell University, and twice in Georgia Perimeter College’s publication The Chronicle.