Introducing the FUS Faculty: L. Martin Bullock

Adjunct Professor, Chemistry

Doktorand, Fachdidaktik der Naturwissenschaften, Universität Konstanz, DE
MSE, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, CH
MA, University of Maryland, USA
MS, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
BA, Duke University, USA 

Office: North Campus Villa Loft, Office 12
Phone: +41 91 986 36 35
Email: mbullock@fus.edu

In addition to teaching at Franklin, Martin Bullock worked as a researcher at the Pädagogischer Hochschule Thurgau as part of the research group in Didactics for Natural Sciences of the University of Konstanz. His areas of research for his doctorate include sustainability and digitization in chemistry education, while his research for his MSE at SUPSI was focused on optimizing wastewater treatment methods with activated carbon. A former Fulbright Fellow (Germany, 1992-1993), Martin has taught chemistry lecture and laboratory courses at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Iowa State University as well as Franklin. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Swiss Chemical Society and the Swiss Science Education Association.

2025-2026 Courses

CHEM 201	Organic Chemistry I	FALL 2025
This course is an introduction to the chemistry of carbon-based compounds. The course begins with a quick review of foundational concepts from CHEM 101 and CHEM 102, specifically covalent bonding, hybridization, VSEPR theory, polarity and intermolecular forces. It continues with an introduction to the different classes of compounds within organic chemistry and their characteristic physical and chemical properties, with an emphasis on structure and functional groups as well as stereochemistry. The study of the different types of chemical reactions will rely on an understanding of how the electrons in the covalent bonds are rearranged, giving rise to the full understanding of the mechanisms of each reaction. Students enrolling in this course must enroll in the parallel laboratory section CHEM 201L.
CHEM 201L	Laboratory to Organic Chemistry I	FALL 2025
The laboratory course parallels the topics in CHEM 201 and provides lab-based investigations of the material covered in CHEM 201. Students must register for both CHEM 201 and the lab section concurrently (This course carries an additional fee for laboratory supplies).
ENV 200	Understanding Environmental Issues	FALL 2025
This case study based course serves as the bridge experience for students completing their introductory course requirements for the ESS major or the ENV minor and who are now moving into the upper-level courses (However it is open to all interested students meeting the prerequisite). Through detailed examination of several case studies at the local, regional, and global levels, students synthesize material from introductory level courses to explore the interdisciplinary nature of today’s environmental issues. They examine what different disciplines offer to our understanding of and attempt to solve these issues.

Publications:

Bullock, M.; Huwer, J. Using AR to Enhance the Learning of Chirality. Education Sciences, 2024, 14, 1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14111214

Bullock, Martin, Huwer, Johannes and Graulich, Nicole. How does using an AR learning environment affect student learning of a radical substitution mechanism? Chemistry Teacher International, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/cti-2024-0024

Bullock, M., Huwer, J., & Graulich, N. (2024) Using an Augmented Reality Learning Environment to Teach the Mechanism of an Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution. Journal of Chemical Education. 2024 101 (4), 1534-1543 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00903

Featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s magazine for teachers, Education in Chemistry, 16 May 2024. https://edu.rsc.org/education-research/reduce-cognitive-load-with-an-augmented-reality-learning-environment/4019444.article

Bullock, M., Schliebitz, D., Seitz, M., Seitz, M., Unger, K., & Wiese, K. (2023). Dreidimensional, dynamisch und interaktiv. Unterricht Chemie, 2023(195), 22-25. Retrieved from https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/abs/10.5555/uc-195-2023_05

The Story of Climate Change, iBook Published by Earth Day Network in 2015. Worked as a Consultant on the textbook and a Contributing Editor on the accompanying Teacher’s Guide.