Michelle C. Foster
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Education:
B.S., University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Post Doctoral Fellowship, Indiana University
Current Position:
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Adjunct Professor, ECOS
Telephone: (617) 287-6096
Science Building, First Floor, Room 87
EMail:
michelle.foster@umb.edu
Teaching Interests:
Environmental Concerns and Chemical Solutions [Chem / Envsty L111] - Fall 2005
Physical Chemistry [Chem 312] - Spring 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Chemical Structures [Chem 369] - Fall 2001, 2002, 2004
Graduate Chemical Structures [Chem 611] - Fall 2000
Analytical Instrumentation [Chem 361] - Spring 2000, 2001
Chemical Principles II [Chem 104] - Fall 1999
Research Interests:
Environmental physical chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, green chemistry, catalysis, surface science, infrared spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy.
The Curriculum Vitae of Michelle Foster
Representative Publications:
15. Michelle Foster, Mark D'Agostino and Devon Passno. “Water on MgO(100) – An infrared study at ambient temperatures.” Surface Science, 590 (2005) 31-41.
14. Jennifer Rudberg and Michelle Foster; “Adsorption of methanol on the MgO(100) surface: An infrared study at room temperature.” J. Phys. Chem. B, 108(47) 18311-18317, 2004.
13. Michelle Foster, Devon Passno and Jennifer Rudberg; "An FTIR study of methanol, water and acetic acid on MgO(100) under ambient conditions." J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 22(4) 1640-1646, 2004.
12. George E. Ewing, Michelle Foster, Will Cantrell and Vlad Sadtchenko; “Thin Film Water on Insulator Surfaces.” Book Chapter for: Water in Confining Geometries, eds. V. Buch and J.P. Devlin [Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2003] Chapter 8, pp. 179-212.
11. Michelle Foster, Melinda Furse and Devon Passno; “An FTIR Study of Water Thin Films on Magnesium Oxide.” Surf. Sci. 502-503, 102-108, 2002.
10. Michelle Foster; “Heterogeneous tropospheric chemistry on mineral dust particles.” Prepr. Ext. Absrt. ACS Natl. Meet., Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Environ. Chem. 41, 1228-1232, 2001.
9. Michelle Foster and George E. Ewing; "Adsorption of water on the NaCl(001) surface. 2. An infrared study at ambient temperatures." J. Chem. Phys. 112, 6817, 2000.
8. Michelle Foster and George E. Ewing; “An infrared spectroscopic study of water thin films on NaCl (100).” Surf. Sci. 427-428, 102-106, 1999.
7. Patanjali Kambhampati, Michelle C. Foster and Alan Campion; “Two-dimensional localization of adsorbate/substrate charge-transfer excited states of molecules adsorbed on metal surfaces.” J. Chem. Phys. 110, 551-558, 1999.
6. Patanjali Kambhampati, C. M. Child, Michelle C. Foster and Alan Campion; “On the chemical mechanism of surface enhanced Raman scattering: Experiment and theory.” J. Chem. Phys. 108, 5013-5026, 1998.
5. Michelle Foster; Bill Darlington, Jason Scharff and Alan Campion; “Surface chemistry of alkylsilanes on Si(100) 2×1.” Surf. Sci. 375, 35-44, 1997.
4. C. M. Child, Michelle Foster, J. E. Ivanecky III, Scott S. Perry and Alan Campion; “Surface Raman spectroscopy as a probe of surface chemistry.” Proc. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 2547(Laser Techniques for Surface Science II), 2-11, 1995.
3. Alan Campion, J. E. Ivanecky, III, C. M. Child and Michelle Foster; “On the Mechanism of Chemical Enhancement in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117, 11807-8, 1995.
2. Michelle Foster, Bill Darlington, Jason Scharff and Alan Campion; “Adsorption and reactions of ethylsilane on Si(100).” Surf. Sci. 315, L947-L952, 1994.
1. Bill Darlington, Michelle Foster and Alan Campion; “Adsorption and reactions of diethylsilane on Si(100).” Surf. Sci. 304, L407-L412, 1994.
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