Education & Experience

• Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, B.A. in Chemistry with Honors (1981)
  Undergraduate Research Advisor: Luther Erickson.
• U. of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1986).
  Ph.D. Advisor: David A. Shirley. Thesis: Photoionization of Atoms
  and Small Molecules using Synchrotron Radiation.
• Postdoctoral Chemist, NIST (1987-1988). Advisors: Albert C. Parr
  and Joseph L. Dehmer
• Asst. Prof., Chemistry, Swarthmore College (1988-1989)
• Asst. Prof., Chemistry, American University (1989-1990)
• Guest Scientist, Nat. Institute of Standards & Technology (1988-1990)
• Asst. Prof., Chemistry, Carleton College (1990-1996)
• Visiting Scientist, SuperACO synchrotron at LURE, Orsay, France, Fall 1994
• Assoc. Prof., Chemistry, Carleton College (1996-present)
• Sabbatical research at U. Wisconsin, Madison with Chemistry Prof. Jim Weisshaar and group (1997-1998)
• Acting Chemistry Department Chair (part of 2000-2001)
• Associate Chemistry Department Chair, Chemistry, Carleton College (2000-2001, Fall 2002, 2005-present)  
• Carleton College Science Division Facilitator (1999-2002)
• Director of the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science & Math Initiative (CISMI, 2003-present)

Grants & Awards

• 2005 Carnegie Scholar Award for a project in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2005-06, ~ $35,000 from Carleton and Carnegie)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant for Undergraduate Institutions, $800,000, Program Director (2004-2008).
• National Science Foundation, ChemLinks Coalition: Making Chemical Connections, liberal arts college consortium effort to catalyze systemic national reform in undergraduate chemistry curricula. Based at Beloit College (PI is Brock Spencer). Funded at $2.7 million for 5 years (1995-2002). Carleton portion used for ozone module development, travel, faculty development workshops, and module editing.
• Senior personnel, National Science Foundation Planning Grant for Reform of the Introductory Chemistry Curriculum. Based at Beloit College (1994, $50K).
• National Science Foundation, 1992 National Young Investigator (NYI) Award, support for teaching, research, community outreach (1992-present, $458K).
• National Science Foundation, Research Planning Grant for Women (1991-93, $18K).
• Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society (1991-93, $18K).
• Research Corporation William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant, for undergraduate research (1991-93, $30K).
• Carleton College, startup funds and others including 3M, Howard Hughes, etc. (1990-1998).
  

Selected Publications

(Undergraduate co-authors noted)

• "Vibronic Coupling and other Many-Body Effects in the 4s_g^-1 Photoionization Channel of CO₂"
  P. Roy, R.J. Bartlett, W.J. Trela, T.A. Ferrett, A.C. Parr, S.H. Southworth, J.D. Hardis, V. Schmidt, and J.L. Dehmer
  Journal of Chemical Physica 94, 949 (1991)
• "Fragmentation of Chlorofluoromethanes using Synchrotron Radiation"
  M. Bayne, S. Hsieh, and T. Ferrett
  1992 Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the National Organization
  for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE).
• "Nondipole Resonant X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy: Polarized Inelastic Scattering at the K Edge of Cl₂"
  J.D. Mills, J.A. Sheehy, T.A. Ferrett, S.H. Southworth, R. Mayer, D.W. Lindle, and P.W. Langhoff
  Physical Review Letters 79, 383 (1997)
• "Why Does the Ozone Hole Form?"
  T. A. Ferrett and S. Anthony
  ChemConnections module (text) for College Introductory Chemistry
  Student manual (112 pages) and Instructor manual (89 pages)
  Wiley and Sons, Inc. (1998)
• "H₂ Elimination Products from Neutral Zr + Alkene Reactions in the Gas Phase"
  Ye Wen, Meredith Porembski, Tricia A. Ferrett, and James C. Weisshaar
  J.ournal of Physical Chemistry A 102, 8362 (1998)
• Reply to comment on "Nondipole resonant X-ray Raman Spectroscopy"
  J.D. Mills, J.A. Sheehy, T.A. Ferrett, S.H. Southworth, R. Mayer, D.W. Lindle, and P.W. Langhoff
  Physical Review Letters 82, 667 (1999)
• "Valence-Shell Autoionization of NO"
  S.H. Southworth, T.A. Ferrett, J.E. Hardis, A.C. Parr, and J.L. Dehmer
  Physics Essays, Vol. 13, No. 2-3, 290 (2000)
• "Is This Real Science?"
  T.A. Ferrett
  Essay in collection "Reflections on Learning as Teachers" by Carleton faculty as part of the Carleton Reflections Project (volume submitted for publication)
• "Fragmentation Mechanisms for C₄F₈ using Multi-dimensional Mass Spectroscopy"
  M. Kido, K Poduska, G. Harbers, A. Albrecht, N. Czoschke, M.A. Gromoll, C. Nelson, L. Madsen, A. King, D. Vosen, S. Hsieh, I. Qidwai, M. Bayne, and T.A. Ferrett (in preparation for the Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2003).
• Carnegie Project Final Snapshot of a project in the scholarship of teaching and learning, on integrative science learning. T. Ferrett (June 2006).

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