Anne Baranger

Anne Michelle Baranger
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Institutions	Yale University University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Catalytic and stoichiometric reactivity of Zirconocene and bridging zirconocene-iridium imido complexes (1993)

Anne M. Baranger is an American chemist and Professor of Chemistry Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She serves as the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her research considers the experiences of chemistry students at university and ways to increase the number of students studying STEM subjects.

Early life and education

Baranger was born to a family of scientists. Her grandfather completed a doctorate in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and her parents (Elizabeth Baranger and Michel Baranger) and brother were physicists. an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majored in chemistry. She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, where she worked alongside Robert Bergman. After earning her doctorate Baranger joined Alanna Schepartz at Yale University. She held both a Rudolph Anderson Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Donaghue Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Research and career

Baranger joined the faculty at the Wesleyan University in 1996. She spent 10 years at Wesleyan University before moving to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In Chicago Baranger was made Associate Head of the Department. She was part of the i-STEM education initiative, and worked on evaluating science teaching. At Illinois she worked on biophysical processes involving RNA. She moved to University of California, Berkeley as Director of Undergraduate Chemistry in 2011.

Her research considers chemistry education and the development of evidence-based educational practises. She hopes to improve the experience of chemistry majors and increase the number of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. In particular, she is interested in strategies to improve the quality of chemistry education and integrate green chemistry in laboratory instructions. She has worked to improve sense of belonging in chemistry departments.

Awards and honours

• 2002 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
• 2015 American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement Award
• 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Foundation Fellowship

Select publications

• Marcia C Linn; Erin Palmer; Anne Baranger; Elizabeth Gerard; Elisa Stone (1 February 2015). "Education. Undergraduate research experiences: impacts and opportunities". Science. 347 (6222): 1261757. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1261757. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25657254. Wikidata Q38346165.
• Stachl, Christiane N.; Baranger, Anne M. (2020-05-21). "Sense of belonging within the graduate community of a research-focused STEM department: Quantitative assessment using a visual narrative and item response theory". PLOS ONE. 15 (5): e0233431. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0233431. ISSN 1932-6203.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• WALSH, P. J.; BARANGER, A. M.; BERGMAN, R. G. (2010-08-21). "ChemInform Abstract: Stoichiometric and Catalytic Hydroamination of Alkynes and Allene by Zirconium Bisamides Cp2Zr(NHR)2". ChemInform. 23 (26): no–no. doi:10.1002/chin.199226089. ISSN 0931-7597.