Sarah Shereen Ghaoui EXPERIENCE: 1/2005-2013 Adjunct Faculty Lone Star College System, The Woodlands, TX Lecture freshman chemistry 8/1999-Present Adjunct Faculty University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX Lecture freshman chemistry 8/1999-6/2004 Lab Director / Lecturer / Research Associate University of Houston, Houston, TX Conduct theoretical research investigating reaction mechanisms and molecular structure of organometallic compounds using computational methods Carry-out molecular orbital calculations of small molecules at the ab-initio, extended Hückel, and density functional level Manage freshman labs including training and supervising teaching assistants, revising lab experiments, enforcing safety requirements and ensuring proper operation of labs Lecture freshman chemistry and physical chemistry 1/1999-5/1999 Adjunct Faculty Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 2/1997-/1998 Postdoc / Lecturer University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Conducted theoretical research to locate and study adiabatic excited states of anionic organic compounds using MOLCAS, GAUSSIAN CIS and CAS methods Lectured freshman chemistry COMPUTER SKILLS: Experience with Excell, Word, Powerpoint and other softwares Experience with WebCT and Blackboard Experience with PC and Macintosh systems Knowledge of UNIX and VAX operating systems Expertise in running GAUSSIAN, GAMESS and MOLCAS software packages EDUCATION: Ph.D. Chemistry February 1997 University of Houston, Houston, Texas Dissertation Topic: Theoretical Studies on the Molecular Structure and Reaction Mechanisms of Transition Metal Complexes Prof. Thomas A. Albright, Adviser LANGUAGES: Fluent in spoken and written English, French and Arabic PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Chemical Society Sarah Shereen. Ghaoui Publications Chirine Soubra, For a Chan and Thomas A. Albright, "Hydrogen Site Exchange in CpIr(PR3)H3+ Complexes", Inorganica Chimica Acta, 272,95 (1998). Benoit Champagne, Eric A. Perpete, Stan J. A. van Gisbergen, Evert-Jan Baerends, Jaap G. Snijders, Chirine Soubra-Ghaoui, Kathleen A. Robins and Bernard Kirtman, "Assessment of Conventional Density Functional Schemes for Computing the Polarizabilities and Hyperpolarizabilities of Conjugated Oligomers: An Ab Initio Investigation of Polyacetylene Chains", Journal of Chemical Physics, 109, 10489 (1998). Lydia McKinstry, Chirine Soubra-Ghaoui, Jennifer J. Overberg, Darron S. Walsh and K. A. Robins, "Acid Mediated Phosphine Borane Decomplexation: A Model for NMR Data", J. Org. Chem., 65, 2261-2263 (2000). Benoit Champagne, Eric A. Perpete, Denis Jacquemin, Stan J.A. van Gisbergen, Evert-Jan Baerends, Chirine Soubra-Ghaoui, K. A. Robins & Bernard Kirtman, "Assessment of Conventional Density Functional Schemes for Computing the Dipole Moment and (Hyper)polarizabilities of Push-Pull ?-Conjugated Systems," J. Phys. Chem. A, 104, 4755-4763 (2000). Chirine Soubra, Y. Oishi ,T. A. Albright, and H. Fujimoto, "Intramolecular Rearrangement in Six- Coordinate Ruthenium and Iron Dihydrides", Inorg. Chem., 40, 620 (2001). .