August 2007
Mary Mackey begins graduate school and joins the Stevenson Group.
June 2007
The Stevenson Group welcomes two new students, Jimmy Villareal and Juliya Maslenikova.
May 2007
The Stevenson and Phillips Groups travel to Chicago for the ECS conference. (11 presentations)
Stevenson receives "Researcher of the Year" Award for Junior Faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi
JACS paper published: JACS, 129, 6072-6073 (2007).
April 2007
A new student, Coralie Rose, joins the Stevenson Group
February 2007
The Stevenson and Phillips Groups travel to Starkville for the MAS conference. (9 presentations)
Congratulations to Katie Carpenter (Stevenson Group) and David Heaps (Phillips Group) who received awards for their
presentations.
January 2007
Congratulations to Curtis Coumbe for passing his Ph.D. oral prospectus
December 2006
Prof. Stevenson gives an invited lecture at Oak Grove High School.
November 2006
Prof. Stevenson hosts a science class from Long Beach Middle School who travel to Southern Miss to learn about nanomaterials
and nanotechnology. We enjoyed watching 20+ students make fullerene structures from molecular modeling kits.
October 2006
Prof. Stevenson gives an invited talk at the Mississippi University for Women
September 2006
Student presentation at the INSPIRES conference
Student Presentation at the National ACS Meeting in San Francisco
Student Presentation at the Mississippi Section of the American Chemical Society
Congratulations to Stevenson Research Student Mary Mackey, who receives 2nd prize at above conference.
August 2006
Prof. Stevenson gives an invited talk at the University of Alabama
June 2006
Another Ph.D. student joins the Stevenson Research Group.
Prof. Stevenson gives an invited talk at Ohio State University
Our 2nd JACS paper is accepted for publication: JACS, 128, 8829-8835 (2006)
May 2006
Congratulations to Hua Yu, who is Prof. Stevenson's first graduate student to graduate. Her thesis is entitled “Investigation of
Fullerene Reactivity with Organic Functionalized Silica Gel and its Application in Isolation of Metallic Nitride Fullerenes (MNFs)."
Prof. Stevenson is a keynote speaker at the ECS meeting in Denver.
Another undergraduate joins the Stevenson Research Group.
March 2006
Another Ph.D. student joins the Stevenson Research Group.
February 2006
Three students travel to the MAS meeting and give oral presentations. Congratulations to Katie, Helen, and Praveen.
October 2005
Professor Stevenson's first MNF publication with him as the corresponding author at the University of Southern Mississippi is
accepted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. See JACS, 127, 12776-12777 (2005)
July 2005
Congratulations to Praveen Madasu, who passed his Ph.D. defense of his research prospectus entitled "Synthesis of MRI Contrast
Agents using Gd3N@C80 Metallic Nitride Fullerenes (MNFs)."
June 2005
A student from the Mississippi University for Women comes to the Stevenson Research Group for summer research on MNFs.
May 2005
Professor Stevenson travels to Quebec, Canada to give a MNF research presentation at the Electrochemical Society Conference.
Congratulations to Hua (Helen) Yu, who passed the Ph.D. written qualifying exams.
Professor Stevenson's undergraduate student gives an oral presentation on MNF research to the open faculty and departmental
student body.
April 2005
Professor Stevenson gives a MNF research presentation at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego,
CA.
February 2005
Professor Stevenson gives a presentation of his MNF research at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences in Oxford, MS.
January 2005
Two undergraduates and two graduate students join the Stevenson Research Group for MNF research.
December 2004
As a co-author, Professor Stevenson has his first journal publication with the University of Southern Mississippi appear in Chem.
Comm. This paper reveals the existence and X-Ray crystal structure for Gd3N@C80 MNF, a promising MRI contrast agent
precursor compound. This publication is entitled "Pyramidalization of Gd3 inside a C80 Cage: The Synthesis and Structure of
Gd3N@C80."
November 2004
Professor Stevenson gives an invited seminar at Alcorn State University on his research with MNFs
Professor Stevenson travels to the Mississippi University for Women and gives an invited seminar on his MNF research.
October 2004
Professor Stevenson's two MSMS high school students give MNF research presentations at the INSPIRES conference in
Hattiesburg, MS.
September 2004
Another student joins the Stevenson Research Group for MNF research.
Aug 2004
Two more students begin working in the Stevenson Research Group for MNF research.
July 2004
Professor Stevenson accepts two Mississippi School for Math and Science high school
students for MNF research in his lab.
May 2004
Professor Stevenson attends the Electrochemical Society conference in San Antonio, Texas.
March 2004
In late March, Professor Stevenson begins his faculty career at the University of Southern Mississippi.
In early March, Stevenson accepts an offer from the University of Southern Mississippi to become a faculty member. Upon
acceptance of his new faculty position, Stevenson resigns his position from Luna Innovations and moves to Mississippi.
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