{{Short description|American chemist}} {{use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{third party | date = February 2024}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Anne Michelle Baranger | workplaces = Yale University <br />University of California, Berkeley | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (PhD)<br /> Massachusetts Institute of Technology | relatives = {{plainlist| * Harold Urey (grandfather) * Elizabeth Baranger (mother) }} | thesis_title = Catalytic and stoichiometric reactivity of Zirconocene and bridging zirconocene-iridium imido complexes | thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927418986 | thesis_year = 1993 }} '''Anne Michelle Baranger''' is an American chemist who is professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the interim dean for the College of Chemistry. Her research considers the experiences of chemistry students and ways to increase the number of students studying STEM subjects.
== Education == Baranger was an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majored in chemistry.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web | date = 2022-05-09 | title=Anne M. Baranger |website=University of California, Berkeley | url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/baranger |access-date=2022-05-09}}{{third party inline|date = February 2024}}</ref>{{third party inline|date = February 2024}} She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate studies, where she completed a doctorate,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baranger |first=Anne Michelle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NGJMAQAAMAAJ |title=Catalytic and stoichiometric reactivity of Zirconocene and bridging zirconocene-iridium imido complexes |date=1993 |language=English |oclc=927418986}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date = February 2024}} working under the supervision of Robert Bergman.{{cn|date = February 2024}}
== Career == Baranger joined the faculty at the Wesleyan University in 1996.<ref name=":1" />{{third party inline|date = February 2024}} She spent 10 years at Wesleyan,{{cn|date = February 2024}} before moving to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heckel |first=Jodi |title=Chemistry Department nets two rising stars |url=https://www.news-gazette.com/news/chemistry-department-nets-two-rising-stars/article_bbb7f40b-0cdd-5434-b63c-fb62acf9aacd.html |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=The News-Gazette |date=15 November 2005 |language=en}}</ref>{{better source|date = February 2024}}<!--Article only states plan to move (is prospective, not historical reporting).--> At UIUC, Baranger was affiliated with the Biochemistry Department (in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, MCB<ref>{{Cite web | date = 2024-02-13 | title= History of Chemistry begins with University's founding in 1867 | website=University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | url=https://chemistry.illinois.edu/directory/history-chemistry-begins-universitys-founding-1867}} As stated here, this Department had moved from the School of Chemical Sciences, which has continued to house the Department of Chemistry, to the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology.</ref>) and the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, to continue research work focused on "understanding, controlling, and modifying processes involving RNA",<ref name=":2">{{Cite web | date = September 21, 2009 | title=Chancellor's Fellow Anne Baranger to Study Evaluation Methods for STEM Departments |website=University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | publisher = Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning | url=https://istem.illinois.edu/news/Baranger.html | access-date = 2024-02-13}}</ref> and she was made associate head of the Department of Chemistry.{{when|date = February 2024}}{{cn|date = February 2024}} Baranger was appointed as a UIUC Chancellors Fellow in 2010, to begin work on that university's I-STEM Education Initiative, where the aim was to "develop a method for the evaluation of STEM departments" (with Chemistry being the prototype department), and to establish a STEM task force campus-wide "to establish a better flow of information and collaboration between... STEM units" at that university.<ref name=":2"/>
Baranger moved to University of California, Berkeley in 2011, to become Director of Undergraduate Chemistry.<ref name=":1"/>{{third party inline|date = February 2024}} In 2020 she became the Berkeley College of Chemistry's first associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion.<ref>{{Cite web | date = August 19, 2020 | title=Berkeley College of Chemistry: Anne Baranger Announced as Inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |website=University of California, Berkeley | url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/baranger |access-date=2024-02-13}}</ref> In 2025 she became the interim dean for the College of Chemistry. She is the first woman to serve in this role. <ref>{{Cite web | date = May 29, 2025 | title=Anne Baranger to serve as interim dean of UC Berkeley College of Chemistry |website=University of California, Berkeley | url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/interim-dean-college-chemistry-announced |access-date=2026-01-22}}</ref>
===Chemistry education research=== In addition to the early research on the biochemistry and biophysics of RNA, Baranger's research moved in the direction of chemical education, where it has addressed chemistry education and the development of evidence-based educational practices, including examining representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, the experience of chemistry majors, integration of green chemistry in laboratory instruction, and strategies to improve the chemistry education in general.<ref name=":1" />{{third party inline|date = February 2024}} She has also examined the concept of sense of belonging in chemistry departments.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Stachl |first1=Christiane N. |last2=Baranger |first2=Anne M. |date=2020-05-21 |title=Sense of belonging within the graduate community of a research-focused STEM department: Quantitative assessment using a visual narrative and item response theory |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=15 |issue=5 |article-number=e0233431 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0233431 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=7241794 |pmid=32437417|bibcode=2020PLoSO..1533431S |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Brauer |first1=Daniel D. |last2=Mizuno |first2=Hikaru |last3=Stachl |first3=Christiane N. |last4=Gleason |first4=Jamie M. |last5=Bumann |first5=Sonja |last6=Yates |first6=Brice |last7=Francis |first7=Matthew B. |last8=Baranger |first8=Anne M. |date=2022-01-11 |title=Mismatch in Perceptions of Success: Investigating Academic Values among Faculty and Doctoral Students |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00429 |journal=Journal of Chemical Education |language=en |volume=99 |issue=1 |pages=338–345 |doi=10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00429 |bibcode=2022JChEd..99..338B |s2cid=239216557 |issn=0021-9584|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{primary source inline|date = February 2024}}
== Awards and honors == * 2002 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/alfred-p-sloan-foundation-11820/ |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=www.chronicle.com|date=May 19, 2000 }}</ref> * 2015 American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=ACS-CEI Award for Incorporation of Sustainability Into Chemical Education |url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding/awards/acs-cei-award-for-sustainability-in-chemical-education.html |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=American Chemical Society |language=en}}</ref> * 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Foundation Fellowship<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grants |website=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |url=https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8169 |access-date=2022-05-09 |language=en}}</ref>
== Selected publications == * {{Cite journal |author-link1=Marcia Linn |author1=Marcia C Linn |author2=Erin Palmer |author3=Anne Baranger |author4=Elizabeth Gerard |author5=Elisa Stone |doi=10.1126/SCIENCE.1261757 |issn=0036-8075 |issue=6222 |journal=Science |language=en |article-number=1261757 |pmid=25657254 |date=1 February 2015 |title=Education. Undergraduate research experiences: impacts and opportunities |volume=347}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Stachl |first1=Christiane N. |last2=Baranger |first2=Anne M. |date=2020-05-21 |title=Sense of belonging within the graduate community of a research-focused STEM department: Quantitative assessment using a visual narrative and item response theory |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=15 |issue=5 |article-number=e0233431 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0233431 |pmid=32437417 |pmc=7241794 |bibcode=2020PLoSO..1533431S |issn=1932-6203|doi-access=free }} * {{Cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=P. J. |last2=Baranger |first2=A. M. |last3=Bergman |first3=R. G. |date=2010-08-21 |title=ChemInform Abstract: Stoichiometric and Catalytic Hydroamination of Alkynes and Allene by Zirconium Bisamides Cp2Zr(NHR)2. |journal=ChemInform |volume=23 |issue=26 |pages=no |doi=10.1002/chin.199226089 |issn=0931-7597}}
==Further reading== * {{Cite web | author = Fornaciari, Julie | date = May 28, 2021 | title = Faculty Profile—Anne Baranger | work = BerkeleyScienceReview.com | url=https://www.berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2021/05/28/faculty-profile-anne-baranger | access-date=2024-02-13}}
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