Rate My Professor Sharmistha Basu-Dutt

Her research interests center on STEM education and pedagogy. She edited the book Making Chemistry Relevant: Strategies for Including All Students in a Learner-Sensitive Classroom Environment (John Wiley and Sons, 2010) and co-authored key publications such as Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes for Everyone (Journal of Chemical Education, 2012), Making Chemistry Relevant to the Engineering Major (Journal of Chemical Education, 2010), A Classical and Quantum Chemical Analysis of Gaseous Heat Capacity (The Chemical Educator, 2002), and Feasibility of a Photosynthetic Artificial Lung (ASAIO Journal, 1997). She served as Co-Principal Investigator and Executive Committee member on the NSF-STEP grant Generating Enthusiasm in Mathematics and Sciences (2004-2009). Basu-Dutt has received numerous awards for her teaching, including the University System of Georgia Regents Excellence in Teaching Award (2007), Faculty First Year Student Advocate Award (2007), Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at UWG (2005), Honors Faculty of the Year Award (2003), UWG Best of the West Faculty Member of the Year (2015), Donald Wagner Honors Faculty of the Year (2017), and UWG Employee Recognition Collaboration Award (2025).