She engages students in research at every step of their way toward graduation. In many ways, she provides a graduate school experience at the undergraduate level, and students go on to prestigious graduate schools and excellent careers through her efforts,” said Susan Conner, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college. Gauthier earned her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of New Hampshire and joined FSC’s chemistry faculty in 1999. She has served as chair for the department of chemistry and physics as well as an elected member of the Faculty Senate. She has presented scholarly papers internationally on various aspects of her research in supermolecular chemistry and received a Flinn Scientific Foundation grant to direct a summer chemistry workshop for high school chemistry teachers. She is also the recipient of grant funding from the Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland and the Petroleum Research Fund.