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Quarter Abroad Taiwan - Instructors

Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Taiwan

Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague

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Chemistry

Professor Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague first visited Taiwan in 2006 and fell in love with the country and its people immediately. She was fortunate to be able to work with a team of professors from UC Davis and Academia Sinica to develop the course plan that is now offered through UC Davis QA. Jackie has taught both CHE 130A and CHE 150 and she is especially involved in administering CHE 199 research opportunities for QA students. She and her research team also conduct field studies on the tea plantations of Taiwan searching for compounds that boost the human immune system. Jackie can often be spotted in the tea houses of Taipei and surrounding areas.

Neil Schore

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Chemistry

Professor Neil Schore is a strong proponent of programs that enable students to explore life outside the U.S. in the context of their college career. He teaches the course in natural products chemistry in Taiwan, where students learn the biosynthetic pathways by which nature creates the compounds that organisms use as chemical defenses against pathogenic species. These compounds form the basis for the development of the drugs so widely used in present-day medicine. He is a big fan of taking students on excursions to museums, historical sights, the occasional Taiwan-league baseball game, weather permitting (which is almost never) and the most famous ice cream shop in Asia.