{"id":2006,"date":"2020-04-20T18:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/?page_id=2006"},"modified":"2025-11-18T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:48:33","slug":"kariluz-davila-diaz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/kariluz-davila-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Kariluz D\u00e1vila D\u00edaz"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2006\" class=\"elementor elementor-2006\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-169a839e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"169a839e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c4b1677 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c4b1677\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<figure id=\"attachment_3077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3077\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-06-23-at-3.03.32-PM-e1743452085250.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3077\" src=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-06-23-at-3.03.32-PM-e1743452085250-300x196.png\" alt=\"Profile Picture\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-06-23-at-3.03.32-PM-e1743452085250-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-06-23-at-3.03.32-PM-e1743452085250-214x140.png 214w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-06-23-at-3.03.32-PM-e1743452085250-600x393.png 600w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-06-23-at-3.03.32-PM-e1743452085250.png 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dra. Kariluz D\u00e1vila D\u00edaz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Chemistry Graduate and Undergraduate Assistant Professor\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>e-mail: kariluz.davila@upr.edu<br \/>Office: CN-327<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Chemical Education<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Analytical Chemistry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"elementToProof\">Kariluz D\u00e1vila is an Assistant Professor of UPR-RP.\u00a0 She<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"elementToProof ContentPasted1 ContentPasted2\">received her BS in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Puerto Rico.\u00a0 In 2007 she had a postdoctoral experience in chemical education at the University of Arizona. Her research in Arizona involved developing digital didactic e-based materials using the computer-based Flash program. She also worked on projects to understand student learning, including the study of alternative conceptions and the classification of the difficulty level of end-of-chapter exercises of several chemistry books.\u00a0 She currently develops digital didactic materials for improving the learning of difficult concepts in general chemistry.\u00a0 Recently, she published her work about transforming the General Chemistry course to a virtual course, catalyzed by the necessity due to the pandemic (<a class=\"ms-outlook-linkify\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jchemed.2c00111\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jchemed.2c00111<\/a>) and using integrative activities as review techniques for General Chemistry concepts (<a class=\"ms-outlook-linkify\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47378\/2835-6764\/AJSER-120\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47378\/2835-6764\/AJSER-120<\/a>). \u00a0 Trying to keep up with this generation of students, who are more technological, she is currently applying different techniques for tutoring that include Piazza, a web-based system that allows close communication between students and professors. This system allows students and professors to post anonymous questions, comments, or answers anytime. Dr. D\u00e1vila has received excellent evaluations for her work in the Department of Chemistry since 2006.\u00a0 She has worked as a coordinator of mentors with the Program Pre-MARC since 2006 but has also served as a mentor since 2000 as a graduate student to first-year undergraduate students. Dr. D\u00e1vila was the coordinator of projects that impacted students and teachers of the Puerto Rico Department of Education such as &#8220;UPR Estudia contigo&#8221; and the STEM Academy. Dr. D\u00e1vila also offers workshops for teachers and students of public and private schools on &#8220;Fun Chemistry&#8221;. Since 2022 she has also worked to offer chemistry immersion summer workshops to high school students through the \u201cUniversity of Puerto Rico SEPA STEM Asthma Awareness Program\u201d as part of the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also the Associate Director of &#8220;NASA Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium&#8221; which helps the development of science and technology in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 She has vast experience with online education and a great domain of software that facilitates the statistical analysis of data collected for teaching and learning processes. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">Da\u0301vila-Di\u0301az, K. \u201cUsing Integrative Activities to Reinforce Stoichiometry, Solutions, and Aqueous Reactions Concepts as a Review Technique for Exams\u201d. American Journal of Science Education Research. 2023. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47378\/2835-6764\/AJSER-120<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">Di\u0301az-Va\u0301zquez, L.M., Da\u0301vila-Di\u0301az, K., Ortiz-Andrade, B.M., Alfonso-Cano, D.J., Zuluaga- Go\u0301mez, C.C., 2023 \u201cConstelacio\u0301n de Latinas\u201d, Publicaciones Puertorriquen\u0303as, Inc. San Juan, PR ISBN: 978-1-62537-661-9<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">K. Davila. \u201cFrom an Emergency Pandemic Course to an Online Course: A General Chemistry case study in a Resource-constrained Hispanic Serving Institution\u201d. Journal of Chemical Education. 2022, 99, 2913\u22122918, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jchemed.2c00111<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">K. Da\u0301vila, L. Mun\u0303oz, L. Di\u0301az, U. Rivera, M. Torres, C. Malca, R. Mahomedova, 2022 \u201cManual Qui\u0301mica Divertida para Maestros de Octavo Grado\u201d, Publicaciones Puertorriquen\u0303as, Inc. San Juan, PR. ISBN: 978-1-62537-622-0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">K. Da\u0301vila, \u201cIncluyendo la tecnologi\u0301a en el salo\u0301n de clase para facilitar la integracio\u0301n de las actividades de GK12\u201d, El Sol, 1, 26-28 (2015).<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">Da\u0301vila, K.; Talanquer, V. Classifying End-of-Chapter Questions and Problems for Selected General Chemistry Textbooks Used in the United States. J. Chem. Educ. 2010, 87 (1), 97\u2013101. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/ed8000232<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Curriculum Vitae\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/CV-Kariluz-Davila2023.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry Graduate and Undergraduate Assistant Professor\u00a0e-mail: kariluz.davila@upr.eduOffice: CN-327 Research Interests Research Kariluz D\u00e1vila is an Assistant Professor of UPR-RP.\u00a0 She\u00a0received her BS in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Puerto Rico.\u00a0 In 2007 she had a postdoctoral experience in chemical education at the University of Arizona. 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