Xavier University of Louisiana

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

Department of Chemistry
Xavier University of Louisiana
1 Drexel Drive, Box 22
New Orleans, LA 70125
office: (504) 520-5082
Stockroom: (504) 520-7379
Fax : (504) 520-7942

Dr. Cheryl Klein Stevens
Department Chair
cklein@xula.edu

FACULTY/Staff PROFILE

Shannon Watt, Ph.D.
Lecturer

Telephone Number:	504-520-5081
Room Number:	NCF - Room 301C
Email Address:	swatt@xula.edu

Courses

General Chemistry I Lab (1011L), General Chemistry II Lab (1021L)

Short Professional Biography

Dr. Watt earned dual B.S./M.S. degrees in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. Her research in the lab of Dr. Tomasz Kowalewski culminated in an M.S. thesis describing the preparation and properties of conducting thiophene block copolymer nanowires for use in organic electronics. Dr. Watt earned a Ph.D. in 2007 from the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she worked with Dr. David Collard to synthesize and characterize semifluorinated polythiophenes and conformationally-restricted oligothiophenes as charge transport layers and models, respectively.

Dr. Watt then served as a National Science Foundation Discovery Corps Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, where she used sum-frequency generation spectroscopy in the lab of Dr. Zhan Chen to characterize the behavior of surfaces modified with polymer layers and with self-assembled films. As part of her Fellowship, she also established a professional development program for chemistry graduate students and postdoctoral associates based on her research into their training experiences. Dr. Watt joined the Xavier Chemistry Department in 2011.

Research Interest

Current Grant Support

Recent Publications

C.B. Kristalyn, S. Watt, S.A. Spanninga, R.A. Barnard, K. Nguyen, and Z. Chen. Investigation of sub-monolayer, monolayer, and multilayer self-assembled semifluorinated alkylsilane films. J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2011, 1, 322.

S. Watt. Facilitating the advancement of the next generation of women faculty: Female graduate students and postdoctoral associates. In Mentoring Strategies to Facilitate the Advancement of Women Faculty. K. Karukstis, B. L. Gourley, M. Rossi, L. L. Wright, Eds.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, D.C., 2010.

B. Wang, S. Watt, M. Hong, B. Domercq, R. Sun, B. Kippelen, and D.M. Collard. Synthesis, properties, and tunable supramolecular architecture of regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophene)s with alternating alkyl and semifluoroalkyl substituents. Macromolecules 2008, 41, 5156.