Kate Queeney

Kate Queeney Assistant Professor of Chemistry Smith College		Prof. Daniela Kohen of Carleton College (left) and Kate Queeney (right) after finishing the Cape Cod Marathon, Oct. 2001. (No one knew what their shirts meant.)
Office: Office Hours: Phone: Fax: Email:	Sabin-Reed 227 M: 2-3; T: 9-11; Th: 2-3; or by appt. (413) 585-3835 (413) 585-3786 kqueeney(at)smith.edu
EDUCATION Ph. D. Harvard University, Physical Chemistry, 1998 Thesis: Probing the role of surface oxygen in catalytically relevant reactions on Mo(110) and oxidized Mo(110) Advisor: Cynthia M. Friend B.A. Williams College, Chemistry, 1992 Thesis: A kinetic model of the alternative pathway of complement Advisor: Enrique Peacock-Lopez PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Smith College, 2006-present Associate Professor of Chemistry Smith College, 2000-present Assistant Professor of Chemistry Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff COURSES 2006-2007 CHM 111: General Chemistry, Sections 2 and 3 (Fall) CHM 332: Physical Chemistry II (Spring) CHM/EGR 337: Materials Chemistry (Spring) RESEARCH INTERESTS Physical and materials chemistry - We use a combination of infrared absorbance spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy to study surface chemistry at liquid/solid interfaces. One current project seeks to understand the adsorption of large polysaccharides on surfaces; these biomolecules play an important role in bacterial adhesion. A second project is focused on the aqueous chemistry used to clean and modify silicon surfaces. RESEARCH STUDENTS Honors Students Sara Green EGR '06 Namrata Chandhok BCH '05 Jennifer Clemens CHM '05 Caitlyn Shea EGR '04 Rachel Herzig-Marx CHM '02 Summer Research, STRIDE and Special Studies Students Margo Kulkarni '10 Sarah Kulig '09 Annamarie Harmon '08 Dezerie Smith '08 Erin Davis HST '07 Jeana Lee CHM '07 Lisa Rosenberg CHM '07 Melissa Cobleigh BCH '06 Sara Green EGR '06 Jessica Schwaber EGR '06 Jessica Slack BCH '06 Jennifer Chan BIO '05 Christine Johnson EGR '04 Casey Royce PHY '02 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS denotes Smith undergraduate co-author M. A. Faggin, S. H. Green, I. T. Clark, K. T. Queeney and M. A. Hines, “Production of highly homogeneous Si(100) surfaces by H₂O etching: Surface morphology and the role of strain,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 11455-11462. R. Herzig-Marx,* K. T. Queeney, R. J. Jackman, M. A. Schmidt and K. F. Jensen, “Infrared spectroscopy for chemically specific detection in silicon-based microreactors,” Anal. Chem. 2004, 76(21), 6476-6483. K. T. Queeney, N. Herbots, J. M .Shaw, V. Atluri and Y. J. Chabal, “Infrared spectroscopic analysis of an ordered Si/SiO₂ interface,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 2004, 84(4), 493-495. K. T. Queeney, M. K. Weldon, Y. J. Chabal and K. Raghavachari, “The microscopic origin of optical phonon evolution during water oxidation of Si(100),” J. Chem. Phys. 2003, 119(4), 2307-2313. click here to see complete publication list PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Chemical Society American Physical Society Materials Research Society American Vacuum Society Sigma Xi back to chemistry home Last modified ... August 26, 2004