Served IUPUI for over 40 years as a professor of Pharmacology and Associate Dean and Director of the IU Graduate School, and worked with faculty to review and develop graduate programs, courses, and procedures.
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Sherry Queener, Ph.D., served IUPUI for over 40 years as a professor of Pharmacology and the Associate Dean and Director of the Indiana University Graduate School. She worked with faculty to review and develop graduate programs, courses, and procedures. Queener also chaired the Graduate Affairs Committee.
Queener earned her B.S. with honors in 1965 from Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma. She then earned an MS from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1968, followed by a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois in 1970.
In 1971, she accepted a position as instructor in Pharmacology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, only two years after the merger that created IUPUI in Indianapolis. Queener moved through the academic ranks in the IU School of Medicine, becoming full professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology in 1984.
Queener’s vita lists 170 research publications between 1970 and 2014 along with several book chapters. She chaired 19 Ph.D. and M.S. committees in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology. She also served as a faculty mentor in the undergraduate research program for a number of undergraduate students, several of whom went on to earn medical degrees, or advanced graduate degrees.
Queener has an impressive record for grant funding of her research on the interaction of drugs with pathogenic organisms. In 1999, she became associate dean of the Indiana University Graduate School, and director of the Graduate Office at IUPUI, positions she held until her retirement in 2014. She continues to serve IUPUI as a member of the Senior Academy.
IUPUI recognized her service with the Glenn Irwin Award for Service in 2007. The University also honored Queener’s decades of contributions by establishing the Sherry Queener Graduate Student Excellence Award, annually presented at the Chancellor’s Academic Honors Convocation.
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