Assistant Professor of Chemistry Chelsea Massaro and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sara Massey gave talks on their research at the American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting in Atlanta, GA in March. Chemistry and physics double major Annalina Slover ’26 and biochemistry major Carolyn Waldie ’26 gave talks on their research conducted with Dr. Massey. Chemistry major Andres Garza ’27 presented a poster on his summer research conducted at the University of Arkansas. Biochemistry majors Cindy Foka ’28 and Lara Alswafta ’28 presented posters on their summer research conducted at the University of North Texas.

Chemistry and biochemistry majors Kaiden Salaz ’26, Alex Dow ’26, Ian Becher ’26, Saki’a Rivers ’26, Maddie Bridges ’26, and Kayla Moody ’26 presented posters and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sara Massey gave an invited talk at the American Chemical Society Southeast/Southwest Regional Meeting in Orlando, FL in October. Student presentations resulted from research done with Massey, Professor of Chemistry Emily Niemeyer, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Chelsea Massaro, who also attended the conference.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sara Massey was awarded a Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This $250,000 research grant will support her lab’s research over the next two years, studying the effects of native environment and external stressors on diatom light-harvesting.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sara Massey gave a talk at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 national meeting in San Diego on her recently published work with chemistry graduate Lexi Fantz ’21 on low energy chlorophylls in cyanobacterial light-harvesting.

Chemistry majors Jodi Glenn-Millhouse ’25, Kaiden Salaz ’25, Annalina Slover ’26, and Carolyn Waldie ’26 presented posters on their research on how photosynthetic diatoms adapt their light-harvesting under light and magnesium stress at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 national meeting in San Diego. Their presentations resulted from research done with Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sara Massey.