• Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, San Diego (1996)
• B.S., Chemistry with Earth Sciences Specialization, University of California, San Diego (1991)

• Consult with faculty on a variety of teaching issues, including course design, the interpretation of student evaluations, and collecting and interpreting mid-term student feedback.
• Consult with faculty about educational components of grant proposals, including the design, assessment, and evaluation of grants.
• Facilitate small groups of faculty through the design or redesign of course syllabi using a ‘backward design’ approach.
• Develop and lead workshops on an assortment of pedagogical topics, including course design, lecturing, the use of classroom response systems, and laboratory based learning.
• Led the Center's efforts to recruit and hire 14 graduate student employees for the 2007-08 academic year.
• Led the planning and implementation of the Center’s Fall 2006 orientations for incoming faculty, “Teaching at Vanderbilt”.
• Led the planning and implementation of the Center’s workshops and working groups for the 2005-06 academic year.
• Supervised and worked closely with the Center’s Graduate Teaching Fellows (GTFs). Projects included consultation training, and the planning and administration of programs like the Future Faculty Preparation Program (F2P2) and the Teaching Certificate program.
• Work with colleagues to transform the Center’s Teaching Certificate program to support graduate students and post-docs seeking to develop and refine their teaching skills in a scholarship of teaching and learning framework.
• Launched a group of faculty to apply Edward Tufte’s ideas about information design to engage their students with data and information in ways that enhance classroom learning.
• Manage the Center’s involvement in the Community of Scholars, a program funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) designed to introduce undergraduate students to research in the biological sciences. Responsibilities include the qualitative assessment of student learning (procedural and conceptual), and leading the mentor training for the program.
• Designed, wrote and built a website documenting the Teaching Fellows Workshop, a 2 day mentor training program for the Community of Scholars program, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/hhmi/hhmi_main.htm.
• Collaborated with a team from the University Library and the Office of Innovation Through Technology to complete initial planning for a Learning Commons facility.
• Led the Center’s website development team, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft.

• Taught The Earth’s Oceans in the Global Environment, a First Year Writing Seminar course with 15 first-year students in the College of Arts and Science, fall 2006.

• Leveraged state of the art and proprietary processes, tools and environments (e.g., DesignShop® and other collaborative events) to develop creative and innovative solutions to complex problems facing a variety of organizations. Lead role experience in many aspects of designing and facilitating collaborative workshop events. Significant experience in documenting these workshops using text, photo, and video capture and creating web and print based documentation products. Clients included a wide range of organizations from many sectors, including healthcare and education.
• Worked with the MG Taylor Corporation (http://www.mgtaylor.com/) to create and launch core training materials on a password protected website for use by network knowledge workers and license holders.
• Collaborated with members of the MG Taylor network to implement new web based technologies (e.g., wikis and blogs) for enabling more effective remote idea building and interactive dialogue.
• Developed methods for trend and technology research based upon an appreciation for the role that critical and emergent information plays in strategic development.
• Designed and maintained the company’s web presence (http://www.iterations.com/)
• Managed the protection of a diverse intellectual property portfolio, including patents, copyright, trade secrets, trade and service marks.

• Engaging the Learners of Today (and Tomorrow?) with Web 2.0 Technologies, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, 10th Annual GradSTEP Conference, January 19, 2008.
• Laptops in the Classroom: Pedagogical Pros and Cons (moderator), a Conversation on Teaching workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching and the Center for Ethics at Vanderbilt University, November 7, 2007.
• Student Motivations & Attitudes: The Role of the Affective Domain (with Cathy Manduca, Ed Nuhfer and James Rhem), POD Network Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25, 2007.
• Pedagogy, Plagiarism and Computer Technologies (moderator), a Conversation on Teaching workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching and the Center for Ethics at Vanderbilt University, October 4, 2007.
• Developing Near Peer Mentors in STEM Disciplines, Enriching the Academic Experience of College Science Students conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 22, 2007. (Click to download the Power Point file)
• Teaching in the American Classroom, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching Conversation on Teaching, November 8, 2006.
• Lectures that Motivate Learning, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, October 4, 2006.
• Learner-Centered Course Design, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, September 13, 2006.
• The Teaching Fellows Workshop (with Patricia Armstrong), for junior and senior mentors in the HHMI Community of Scholars program, Vanderbilt University, May 9, 30 and 31, 2006.
• Learner-Centered Course Design, Invited Workshop, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, May 15, 2006.
• Mentoring as Teaching (with Professor Ellen Fanning), a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, April 5, 2006.
• Engaging Students with Data and Information – Lessons from Edward Tufte, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, March 27, 2006.
• Lab-Based Learning, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, January 21, 2006.
• Presenting Data and Information – Lessons from Edward Tufte, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, November 8, 2005.
• Developing Near Peer Mentors in STEM Disciplines (with Peter Felten), POD Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 29, 2005.
• Teaching Laboratory Classes, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, September 22, 2005.
• The Teaching Fellows Workshop (with Peter Felten), for junior and senior mentors in the HHMI Community of Scholars program, Vanderbilt University, May 31-June 1, 2005. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/hhmi/hhmi_main.htm
• Personal Response Systems, a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, October 4, 2004.
• Lab Management, (with Mozhgan Mirani), a Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching workshop, October 25, 2004.

• Atmospheric and Geologic Applications of Mass-Independent Isotope Effects, Earth and Environmental Sciences Departmental Seminar, Vanderbilt University, March 23, 2007. (Click to download the Power Point file)
• Mass Independent Isotope Fractionations in O3, CO and CO2: Observations from the Laboratory and the Earth’s Atmosphere, Earth Science Seminar, NASA Ames Research Center, May 13, 1999.
• Isotopic Studies of Tropospheric Ozone, Invited Seminar, Center for the Study of Global Change, Yale University, April 1, 1996.
• Isotopic Studies of Tropospheric Ozone, Invited Seminar, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University, March 28, 1996.
• Isotopic Studies of Tropospheric Ozone, Thirteenth Informal Symposium on Kinetic and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere, Pasadena, California, January 16, 1996.
• Isotopic Studies of Tropospheric Ozone, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12, 1995.
• Isotopic Studies of Tropospheric Ozone, Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Berkeley, California, June 6, 1994.
• Measurement of Multi Oxygen Isotopic (d18O & d 17O) fractionation factors in the Stratospheric Sink Reactions of Nitrous Oxide, American Chemical Society Regional Meeting, Pasadena, California, October, 20, 1993.

Chapters

• Armstrong, P., P. Felten, J. Johnston, and A. Pingree, Practicing What We Preach: Transforming the TA Orientation, To Improve the Academy, 24, 231-246, 2006. [Click to download PDF, 0.2 MB]
• Johnston, J. C., and M. H. Thiemens, Mass Independently Fractionated Ozone in the Earth’s Atmosphere and in the Laboratory, in Handbook of Stable Isotope Analytical Techniques, edited by Pier de Groot, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004.

Articles

• Walker, D.G, S. P. Brophy, M. A. Stremler, J. C. Johnston, and D. O. Bruff, Case Study on the Pedagogical Impact of Tablet PCs as a Presentation Medium in Engineering Classrooms, International Journal of Engineering Education, accepted, December 2007.
• Johnston, J. C., T. Röckmann, and C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, CO2 + O(1D) isotopic exchange: Laboratory and modeling studies, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 15,213-15,229, 2000. [Click to download PDF, 5.2 MB]
• Johnston, J. C., and M. H. Thiemens, The isotopic composition of tropospheric ozone in three environments, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 25,395-25,404, 1997. [Click to download PDF, 3.3 MB]
• Johnston, J. C., S. S. Cliff, and M. H. Thiemens, Measurement of multioxygen isotopic (d18O & d17O) fractionation factors in the stratospheric sink reactions of nitrous oxide, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 16,801-16,804, 1995. [Click to download PDF, 1.4 MB]
• Johnston, J. C., Isotopic Studies of Tropospheric Ozone, Ph.D. thesis, University of California, San Diego, 1996.

• Department of Chemistry Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, June 1993
• David Jay Gambee Memorial Fellowship (for undergraduate research), June 1990

• National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), 2005
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), 2005
• Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), 2004
• American Chemical Society (ACS), 1997
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1993
• American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1991

• Member POD Annual Conference Assessment Committee, 2007- present
• Member editorial board, Journal of Graduate and Professional Student Development, 2006 - present
• Panelist for discussion of the science of climate change highlighted in the movie An InconvenientTruth Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2006
• Panelist for Tsunami presentation at the Adventure Science Center, Nashville, Tennessee, January 2005
• Volunteer coordinator for the PlaNetwork Consortium’s ‘Networking a Sustainable Future’ conference, San Francisco, California, June 2003
• Volunteer Judge, Synopsis Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
  San Jose, California, April 2002