Christina Chant, formerly assistant professor at Clarion University in Pennsylvania, is a new assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Michael’s College. She began this fall semester and is teaching physical chemistry, lecture and lab, and a general chemistry lab. In the spring, she will be teaching organic chemistry lab.
“I wanted to return to Saint Michael's College, after having taught here for a year,” Dr. Chant said. “This is a place that is truly focused on teaching while actively supporting research,” she said. “It’s a very supportive campus and the students are really dedicated.”
Professor Chant earned her doctorate in chemistry (biophysical chemistry) from the Pennsylvania State University in 2002 with a dissertation titled, “Computational design and experimental verification of protein domains.” She earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry and environmental chemistry from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1996.
Professor Chant was a visiting assistant professor at Saint Michael’s, 2008-9, was clinical research supervisor for the department of radiology at the University of Vermont, 2005-7, and was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UVM, 2002-5.
She has produced research publications on targeting portions of genetic codes responsible for cancer, particularly breast cancer. Her work has appeared in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (2011), OpiumMagazine (2010), Physics in Medicine and Biology (2008 and 2007), Protein Expression and Purification(2004), Protein Science (2004 and 2003), and Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (2003). She has a manuscript in preparation on chemically induced photocrosslinks in the hairpin ribozyme. She has also done a number of poster presentations, and has won awards supporting her research.
Professor Chant is also a violist for the Venango Chamber Orchestra and formerly for the Clarion University Orchestra.
Christina Chant and her husband Alan Chant reside in Hinesburg, Vt., with their children Alex, age 12, Juliette 6, and Charlotte, 3.
The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top 10 college towns. Identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 376 Colleges, and included in the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.