Thursday, November 13, 2025
Anderson Hall
Mississippi College
200 S Capitol St
Clinton, MS
Details
Doors open at 3:30 pm – Poster Session at 4:00 pm
Dinner and Keynote following
Annual award nominations accepted here – https://forms.gle/JMRf4pZYRFBeMZ3N7
Keynote Speaker – 2024 Chemist of the Year
Dr. David Magers is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Physics in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Mississippi College (MC), where he has taught since 1989. He earned his Ph.D. from the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida under Rod Bartlett and was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, where he worked with Nobel Laureate William Lipscomb. His areas of expertise include quantum chemistry, molecular electronic structure and spectra, many-body theory, and ab initio many-body methods. He is especially interested in using model reactions to compute accurate enthalpies of formation and to determine conventional strain energies of small cyclic systems. MC named Dr. Magers the 2003 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer of the College of Arts and Sciences, and in 2005, he was awarded Distinguished Professor of the Year for the university. He has over 40 publications and delivered 50 invited lectures, but his primary focus has been directing his students to present. Currently, the 144 students who have been part of his Computational Chemistry Group have delivered over 745 poster or oral presentations. In addition to being named 2024 Chemist of the Year by the Mississippi Section of the American Chemical Society, he was also awarded the 2024 Outstanding Contribution to Science Award by the Mississippi Academy of Sciences (MAS), the highest annual award the MAS gives.