Rate My Professor Christine Blaine

Christine Blaine serves as Professor of Chemistry at Carthage College, a position she has held since joining the faculty in 1995. She holds a B.A. in Chemistry from the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Minnesota. Prior to her appointment at Carthage, Blaine was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Her teaching portfolio includes General Chemistry I (CHM 1010), General Chemistry II (CHM 1020), Inorganic Chemistry (CHM 2120), Advanced Synthesis Laboratory (CHM 3100), Advanced Integrated Laboratory (CHM 3110), Chemistry Senior Thesis (CHM 4000), and Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (CHM 4120). She is particularly active in mentoring undergraduate students through their senior thesis research.

Blaine is deeply committed to science education and outreach, serving as Co-Principal Investigator for the Carthage Noyce Scholarship Program, which received a $1,197,872 National Science Foundation Noyce grant for “A Community Building Approach to Preparing Secondary Science and Math Teachers” from 2017 to 2022. She acts as a liaison between Kenosha Unified School District schools and Carthage College, conducting hands-on science activities with elementary and middle school students to ignite curiosity and passion for science. In recognition of her teaching excellence, she was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at Carthage College in 2010. A member of the American Chemical Society, Blaine has contributed to the field through several peer-reviewed publications, including “Electrochemical and IR Spectroelectrochemical Studies of the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by [Ir₂(dimen)₄]²⁺ (dimen = 1,8-Diisocyanomenthane)” (1996), “Electrochemistry and infrared spectroelectrochemistry of the substituted phosphine complexes, XTa(CO)₄(dppe) (X = I, Br) and XM(CO)₂(dppe)₂ (X = H, I, Br, Cl; M= Nb, Ta)” (1995), “Infrared spectroelectrochemistry of [Rh(TM₄)₄M(CO)₅]²²⁺ (TM₄=2,5-diisocyano-2,5-dimethylhexane; M=Re, Mn): electron-transfer-promoted metal-metal bond cleavage and formation” (1994), and “Heterobimetallic Au-Os and Au-Ru hydrido complexes. X-ray crystal and molecular structures of [Au₂Os(H)₃(PPh₃)₅]PF₆ and [AuRu(H)₂(CO)(PPh₃)₄]PF₆” (1988). Her research has accumulated 149 citations on ResearchGate. Additionally, she contributed environmental data on “Chloride Concentrations from Pike River” to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources SWIMS database.