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Congratulations to Our Award Recipients!
Chemist of the Year
Julie Pigza, Ph.D.
University of Southern Mississippi
High School Teacher of the Year
Sarah Holder
East Marion High School
Student Chapter of the Year
Mississippi College
Undergraduate Posters
- A New Extraction and Quantification Method to Detect Polystyrene Plastics in
Biological and Environmental Samples
Claire Stokes
Mississippi College - Ab Initio Analysis of Polarizability in Molecular Piezoelectric Response for Organic
Dimer Systems
David Zetterholm
Mississippi College - Adapted qRT-PCR Protocol for Campus-Wide Asymptomatic COVID-19 Screening
on Undergraduate Campus
Karlee McKinney
Belhaven University - Adsorption of hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA) (Generation X)
using commercial Douglas fir Biochar
Emily Chandler, Chanaka Navarathna, Prashan Rodrigo, Sarah Jessica McClain, Charles
U. Pittman Jr. and Todd Mlsna
Mississippi State University - Adsorption of Phosphates onto Layered Double Hydroxide Impregnated Douglas fir
Biochar
Michael Walker
Mississippi State University - Campus-wide COVID Screening provides Non-Traditional Clinical and Laboratory
Experiences for Students During Pandemic
Rebecca Ayres and D’Onna Manning
Belhaven University - Chemical Analysis and Biotoxicity Assessment of Plastic Bioremediation Using
Tenebrio molitor Larvae
Lillian Sisson
Mississippi College - Conventional Strain Energies of Cyclopropylborane, Borirane, Boretane, the
Diboretanes, Borolane, the Diborolanes, Borinane, and the Diborinanes
Kaylee Hood
Mississippi College - Conventional Strain Energies of Thiaziridine and the Thiazetidines
Joshua Gramm
Mississippi College - Development and Testing of Forensic Chemistry Sensors to Detect Decaying Remains and Pinpoint Crime Scene Locations
Whitney Schuler
Mississippi College - Enthalpies of Formation of Quinoline Derivatives by Homodesmotic Reactions
Caitlin McCormick
Mississippi College - Investigation of Quinolines as HIV-Integrase Inhibitors
Jack M. Patterson
University of Southern Mississippi - Investigation of the Acid-Catalyzed Pictet-Spengler Cyclization with Sulfonamides
Kaitlyn Birkhoff
University of Southern Mississippi - Lead immobilization in simulated polluted soil by Douglas for bio char-supported phosphate
Sabrina Solomon
Mississippi State University - Pharmaceutical Drug Ligand Binding to Serum Albumin with Quantum Chemical
Methods
James Baker
Belhaven University - Prediction of chiroptical spectroscopic properties of chiral beta-lactone
heteroaromatics by time-dependent density functional theory
Olivia Haney
Belhaven University - Preparation of macrocyclic polyphenylethynylarene ethers
Bailey Steen
Mississippi College - Regioselectivity of Acid-Catalyzed Epoxide Ring-Opening Reactions
Breana Chastang
Mississippi College - Relative Stabilities of Derivatives of 9-Methylanthracene and 9-Methylene-9,10-
Dihydroanthracene and Derivatives of 6-Methylpentacene and 6-Methylene-6,13-
Dihydropentacene
Emily Sullivan
Mississippi College - Remediation of Aqueous Uranium(VI) from Magnetic (Fe3O4) Douglas fir Biochar
Bryce Bolden
Mississippi State University - Removal of As(V) using zero valent ion/douglas biochar
Kristina Pedersen
Mississippi State University - Simultaneous Sorption of Multioxyanion (PO43-, AsO43-, SeO42-, CrO42-) using Magnetic Douglas fir Biochar
Kate Smallwood
Mississippi State University - Sorption of As (V) using Fe3NO4 Nanoparticles Dispersed on Douglas fir Biochar
Audrina Johnson
Mississippi State University - Sorption of Low to Moderate Concentrations of Aqueous PFOS and PFOA ("Forever
Chemicals") using Douglas fir Biochar Variants
Sarah Hossain
Mississippi State University - Sorptive Removal of SeO42-/SeO32- using Douglas fir Biochar Metal Oxides/Hydroxides Nanocomposites
Arissa Ramirez
Mississippi State University - Spartan18 QSAR Analysis of Ebselen-Type Heterocycles for the Inhibition of SARS-
CoV-2
Damien Cooper
University of Southern Mississippi - Synthesis of macrocyclic diaminopolyphenylethynylarenes
Megan Stewart
Mississippi College - The Analysis of Microplastics and Perfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) in Marine
Animal Tissues
Katherine Lape
Mississippi State University - Title not submitted
Jessie Tisdale
Mississippi State University
Graduate Posters
- Catalytic Hydroborylative Coupling of Allenes for Chemo-, Regio- and
Stereoselective Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted 1,3-Dienes Compounds
Abdullah
Mississippi State University - Contribution of modified P-enriched biochar to acid soil’s pH buffering capacity
Oluwafemi Awolesi
Mississippi State University - Conventional Strain Energies of Three-Membered Heterocycles
Ryan Ivey
Mississippi College - Electrophile Initiated Cyclization of Chiral, Non-racemic Homoallylic N-tert-
Butanesulfonyl Carbamates and Bis-Boc Guanidines
Gavin Rusitn
University of Southern Mississippi - Iron/titanium oxide-biochar (Fe2TiO5/BC): versatile adsorbent/photocatalyst for
aqueous PO43-, AsO43-, Cu2+, UO22+ and Methylene Blue (MB)
Olalekan Olabode
Mississippi State University - Mass Spectrometry of Beta-2 Agonists
Matthew Carlo
Mississippi State University - Polyaniline based on Phenoxazine and Carbazole Derivatives with improved
electrochemical stability and processability.
Mohammed Almtiri
Mississippi State University - Quantification of Materials Light Absorption and Scattering Extinction using
Integrating-Sphere-Assisted Resonance Synchronous Spectroscopy
Pathum D. Wathudura
Mississippi State University - Ru(II)-Catalyzed Transient Directing Group Assisted Intramolecular C–H
Activation of Indole
D.M Nirosh Udayanga
Mississippi State University - Synthesis of Semi-Fluorinated Polyaryl Ethers via Friedel-Crafts Polymerization
Gustavo Munoz
Mississippi State University - Temperature-Dependent Total Photoluminescence Spectroscopy as an
Extraordinarily Informative Measurement Technique for Studying the Temperature
Effects on Materials Photophysical Properties
Max Wamsley
Mississippi State University