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Kean Ocean

Due to icy conditions on the Ocean County College campus, all classes and activities at Kean Ocean will be conducted remotely on Wednesday, January 28. 

This remote schedule applies only to Kean Ocean. Kean’s main campus in Union and Kean Skylands will operate as normal. 

Only essential personnel should report in person for work at Kean Ocean. Employees with questions about their status should consult their supervisor. 

Ity Sharma, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Email
itsharma@kean.edu
Phone
(908) 737-3682

Education

  • Ph.D., Chemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Physical Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry

Courses Taught

  • CHEM 1083 CHEMISTRY I 
  • CHEM 1084 CHEMISTRY II 
  • CHEM 3381 Physical Chemistry I
  • CHEM 3382 Physical Chemistry II
  • CHEM 3385 PHYSICAL CHEM LAB

Teaching Philosophy

Teaching young minds is an important task, and my teaching philosophy reflects my desire to work with students throughout their undergraduate careers. I encourage students to engage and participate by incorporating traditional teaching methods and providing real-world applications to promote understanding. In addition, I am interested in conveying to the student the relevance of chemistry to our everyday life.

 

Selected Publications

  • Selection of carbon nanotubes with specific chiralities using helical assemblies of Flavin mononucleotide. Sang-Yong Ju, Jonathan Doll, Ity Sharma and Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos. Nature Nanotechnology, 2008, 3, 356 – 362
  • Calculating pKa Values for Substituted Phenols and Hydration Energies for Other Compounds with the First-Order Fuzzy-Border Continuum Solvation Model. Ity Sharma and George A. Kaminski. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2012, 33, 2388–2399
  • Using polarizable POSSIM force field and fuzzy-border continuum solvent model to calculate pKa shifts of protein residues. Ity Sharma and George A. Kaminski. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2017, 38, 65-80
  • The expanding role of mass spectrometry in the field of vaccine development. Vaneet Sharma, Ity Sharma and James Glick. Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 2020, 39, 83-104