Heather Shafer

Laboratory Instructor
Smith College

Office: 434 Sabin Reed
Phone: (413)-585-3363
Fax: (413)-585-3786
Email: hshafer(at)email.smith.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Analytical Chemistry
Advisor, Carl A. Koval

A.B., Vassar College, Chemistry
Advisor, Marianne H. Begemann

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Smith College, 2005-present 
Laboratory Instructor

Smith College, 2003-2005
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

College of the Holy Cross
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2000-2003

COURSES

CHM 111 lab: General Chemistry
CHM 118 lab: Advanced General Chemistry
CHM 224 lab: Introduction to Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Development of introductory chemistry experiments. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Mills, K. V.; Herrick, R. S.; Guilmette, L. W.; Nestor, L. P.; Shafer, H. O.; Ditzler, M. A., "Introducing Undergraduate Students to Electrochemistry: A Two-Week Discovery Chemistry Experiment," J. Chem. Ed, 2008, 85, 1116-1119. 

Shafer, H. O.; Derback, T. L;Koval, C. A., "Electron Transfer Reactions of Hydrophobic Metallocenes with Aqueous Redox Couples at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces," J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 10, 1025-1032.