selected publications academic article Dubrovskiy, A., Broadway, S., Jang, B., Mamiya, B., Powell, C. B., Shelton, G. R., ... Mason, D. (2022). Is the STEM gender gap closing?. Journal of Research in Science Mathematics and Technology Education. 5(1), 37-57. Shelton, G. R., Mamiya, B., Weber, R., Walker, D. R., Powell, C. B., Jang, B., ... Mason, D. (2021). Early Warning Signals from Automaticity Diagnostic Instruments for First- and Second-Semester General Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education. 98(10), 3061-3072. Mason, D. (2020). Relationship between Academic Preparation in General Chemistry and Potential Careers. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research. 32(5), Williamson, V. M., Walker, D. R., Chuu, E., Broadway, S., Mamiya, B., Powell, C. B., ... Mason, D. (2020). Impact of basic arithmetic skills on success in first-semester general chemistry. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 21(1), 51-61. Powell, C. B., Simpson, J., Williamson, V. M., Dubrovskiy, A., Walker, D. R., Jang, B., Shelton, G. R., & Mason, D. (2020). Impact of arithmetic automaticity on students' success in second-semester general chemistry. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 21(4), 1028-1041. Albaladejo, J., Broadway, S., Mamiya, B., Petros, A., Powell, C. B., Shelton, G. R., ... Mason, D. (2018). ConfChem Conference on Mathematics in Undergraduate Chemistry Instruction: MUST-Know Pilot Study-Math Preparation Study from Texas. Journal of Chemical Education. 95(8), 1428-1429. Shelton, G. R., Hrovat, D. A., & Borden, W. T. (2007). Calculations of the effect of tunneling on the Swain-Schaad exponents (SSEs) for the 1,5-hydrogen shift in 5-methyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene. Can SSEs be used to diagnose the occurrence of tunneling?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(51), 16115-16118. Valliant-Saunders, K., Gunn, E., Shelton, G. R., Hrovat, D. A., Borden, W. T., & Mayer, J. M. (2007). Oxidation of tertiary silanes by osmium tetroxide. Inorganic Chemistry. 46(13), 5212-5219. Shelton, G. R., Hrovat, D. A., & Borden, W. T. (2007). Tunneling in the 1,5-hydrogen shift reactions of 1,3-cyclopentadiene and 5-methyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(1), 164-168. Shelton, G. R., Hrovat, D. A., Wei, H., & Borden, W. T. (2006). Why does perfluorination render bicyclo[2.2.0]hex-1(4)-ene stable toward dimerization? Calculations provide the answers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128(36), 12020-12027. Shelton, G. R., Hrovat, D. A., & Borden, W. T. (2006). Cooperative and competitive effects of substituents at C1 and C4 on the barriers to ring inversion of 5,5-difluorobicyclo[2.1.0]pentanes. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 71(8), 2982-2986. Cradlebaugh, J. A., Zhang, L. i., Shelton, G. R., Litwinienko, G., Smart, B. E., Ingold, K. U., & Dolbier, W. R. (2004). Rate constants for hydrogen abstraction from alkoxides by a perfluoroalkyl radical. An oxyanion accelerated process. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. 2(14), 2083-2086. Battiste, M. A., Duan, J., Zhai, Y., Ghiviriga, I., Abboud, K. A., Roitberg, A., Shelton, G. R., & Dolbier, W. R. (2002). 4,5-Dehydrooctafluoro[2.2]paracyclophane: facile generation and extraordinary Diels–Alder reactivity. Tetrahedron Letters. 43(39), 7047-7049. Dolbier, W. R., Shelton, G. R., Battiste, M. A., Stanton, J. F., & Price, D. R. (2002). Computational discovery of a novel automerization process for 1-fluorocyclopropene. Organic Letters. 4(2), 233-235.
education and training Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry, University of Florida - (Gainesville, Florida, United States) 2004 M.S. in Chemistry, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - (Edwardsville, Illinois, United States) 1999 B.S. in Chemistry; minor in Biology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - (Edwardsville, Illinois, United States) 1997 University of North Texas - (Denton, Texas, United States) , Postdoctoral Training 2006