Introducing the FUS Faculty: L. Martin Bullock

Adjunct Professor, Chemistry

Doktorand, Fachdidaktik der Naturwissenschaften, Universität Konstanz, DE
MSE, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, CH
MA, University of Maryland, USA
MS, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
BA, Duke University, USA 

Office: North Campus Villa Loft, Office 12
Phone: +41 91 986 36 35
Email: mbullock@fus.edu

In addition to teaching at Franklin, Martin Bullock worked as a researcher at the Pädagogischer Hochschule Thurgau as part of the research group in Didactics for Natural Sciences of the University of Konstanz. His areas of research for his doctorate include sustainability and digitization in chemistry education, while his research for his MSE at SUPSI was focused on optimizing wastewater treatment methods with activated carbon. A former Fulbright Fellow (Germany, 1992-1993), Martin has taught chemistry lecture and laboratory courses at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Iowa State University as well as Franklin. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Swiss Chemical Society and the Swiss Science Education Association.

2024-2025 Courses

CHEM 101	General Chemistry I	FALL 2024
The course examines atomic structure, bonding, stoichiometry and the mole concept, the behavior of gases, liquids and solids, thermochemistry, and intermolecular forces. Students are required to concurrently enroll in the corresponding lab section. This course is a prerequisite for CHM 102 and is a pre-health course.
CHEM 101L	Laboratory to General Chemistry I	FALL 2024
The laboratory course parallels the topics in CHEM 101 and provides lab-based investigations of the material covered in CHEM 101. Students must register for both CHEM 101 and the lab section concurrently (This course carries an additional fee for laboratory supplies).
CHEM 301	Biochemistry	FALL 2024
This course will provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the properties, synthesis, and metabolism of amino acids, sugars, fatty acids, and nucleotides. The polymeric nature of these biomolecules will be a focus as students learn how these molecules are synthesized and their roles in energy production and the removal of waste products. While there are thousands of reactions that govern cellular metabolism, there are only relatively few types of reactions. This course will focus on the reaction types observed most frequently in cellular metabolism: nucleophilic substitution, elimination, isomerization, oxidation-reduction, and hydrolysis. This course is part of the pre-health sciences curriculum. Recommended prerequisite: CHEM 202. Students without CHEM 202 should have a solid understanding of the material from the prerequisite courses.
CHEM 102	General Chemistry II	SPRING 2025
This course examines chemical equilibria and acids and bases, coordination chemistry, oxidation-reduction reactions, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, nuclear chemistry, and an overview of organic chemistry. Students are required to concurrently enroll in the corresponding lab section CHEM 102L. This course is a prerequisite for all upper-level chemistry courses and is a pre-health course.
CHEM 102L	Lab to General Chemistry II	SPRING 2025
The laboratory course parallels the topics in CHEM 102 and provides lab-based investigations of the material covered in CHEM 102. Students must register for both CHEM 102 and the lab section concurrently (This course carries an additional fee for laboratory supplies).

Publications:

Bullock, M.; Huwer, J. Using AR to Enhance the Learning of Chirality. Education Sciences, 2024, 14, 1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14111214

Bullock, Martin, Huwer, Johannes and Graulich, Nicole. How does using an AR learning environment affect student learning of a radical substitution mechanism? Chemistry Teacher International, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/cti-2024-0024

Bullock, M., Huwer, J., & Graulich, N. (2024) Using an Augmented Reality Learning Environment to Teach the Mechanism of an Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution. Journal of Chemical Education. 2024 101 (4), 1534-1543 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00903

Featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s magazine for teachers, Education in Chemistry, 16 May 2024. https://edu.rsc.org/education-research/reduce-cognitive-load-with-an-augmented-reality-learning-environment/4019444.article

Bullock, M., Schliebitz, D., Seitz, M., Seitz, M., Unger, K., & Wiese, K. (2023). Dreidimensional, dynamisch und interaktiv. Unterricht Chemie, 2023(195), 22-25. Retrieved from https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/abs/10.5555/uc-195-2023_05

The Story of Climate Change, iBook Published by Earth Day Network in 2015. Worked as a Consultant on the textbook and a Contributing Editor on the accompanying Teacher’s Guide.