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23rd Annual Area Collegiate Chemistry Meeting
This annual chemistry meeting was held on the beautiful campus of The University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM). This meeting is jointly sponsored by Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (SAACS) at UTM and MSU. Nine universities from the region were represented at the meeting. A total of 30 students presented their research in oral presentations and a poster session. MSU Chemistry had a strong showing this year with 7 student presentations.

7 undergraduates and 6 faculty members represented MSU Chemistry
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Ed Musselman |
Rachel Peterson |
Dr. Mark Masthay |
Student Presentations

Spencer Chambers, Clay Spencer, Justin Legleiter and Ed Musselman
Rachel Peterson and Melissa Baird
Tim Followell
Edward Musselman (Faculty Advisor: Ricky Cox)
Oral presentation title: "Theoretical Investigations into the Nature of
p-Stacking Interactions in Proteins"Rachel Peterson (Faculty Advisor: Ricky Cox)
Poster title: "Development of a Computational Chemistry Experiment for the Biochemistry Laboratory: a New Twist on the Lysozyme Experiment"
Melissa M. Baird (Faculty Advisor: Harry Fannin)
Oral presentation title: "Effect of Solvent Venting on a Helium GC-ICP System"
Justin Legleiter (Faculty Advisor: Harry Fannin)
Oral presentation title: "Evaluation of Pectinatella magnifica as a
Potential Bio-Accumulator
using ICP-AES"
Clay Spencer (Faculty Advisor: Mark Masthay)
Oral presentation title: "Isosbestic Regions Induced in the Absorption Spectrum of Bacteriorhodopsin by Photoinduced Changes in Light Scattering"
Tim Followell (Faculty Advisor: Bob Volp)
Oral presentation title: "Microsomal Dechlorination of Chloropropanes"
Spencer Chambers (Faculty Advisor: Harry Conley)
Oral presentation title: "Average Molar Masses and van't Hoff Factors by Vapor Pressure Osmometry"

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