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NOBCChE President Talitha Hampton, a program manager at AstraZeneca, welcomes conference attendees at a workshop titled “Optimizing Interactions in Orlando—Getting the Most Out of the NOBCChE Conference.” Hampton highlighted some keys to successfully navigating the conference. She asked that attendees read companies’ strategic plans and 10-K filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission before visiting booths at the NOBCChE career fair. She also suggested attendees use the conference as an opportunity to practice their elevator pitches and to network. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
Eric W. Best Jr. (left), a senior majoring in chemistry at Alabama’s Oakwood University, presents his research analyzing the water quality of natural and man-made wetlands on a Native American reservation in Montana. “I’m passionate about environmental science and helping the nature around me,” Best said. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
Eiyana Wright-White (left), a freshman biology student minoring in chemistry at Florida’s Bethune-Cookman University, poses with Sharita Ellison, a senior majoring in chemistry at Bethune-Cookman, alongside a cardboard representation of an Instagram post from NOBCChE. The organization has accounts on Instagram (@NOBCChE_Official), Twitter (@NOBCChE), and Facebook. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
Kiara McDaniel (left), a senior organic chemistry student at North Carolina A&T State University, poses with American Chemical Society Director-at-Large Dorothy J. Phillips after winning an iPad in a raffle at ACS’s NOBCChE booth. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
Selisa Rollins (right), a chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate at Arizona State University, holds up a T-shirt she received after visiting Joy Titus-Young (left), manager of diversity programs at ACS, and ACS’s NOBCChE booth. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
Alex Kosanovich (from left), Keturah Odoi, Brian Mosby, and chemistry professor James Batteas helm the Texas A&M University booth at NOBCChE. For his help in establishing a NOBCChE chapter at Texas A&M in 2012, Batteas received a NOBCChE President’s Award at this year’s conference. “He deserves the award,” Odoi said. “He made NOBCChE at Texas A&M what it is.” Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
NOBCChE founding member William M. Jackson (from left), NOBCChE Board Chair Malinda Gilmore, Georgetown University professor Milton Brown, and NOBCChE President Talitha Hampton celebrate Brown’s receipt of the 2015 Percy L. Julian Award. The award, which is NOBCChE’s most prestigious honor, is named after the first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Brown, an inventor of theranostic medicine used to both diagnose and treat disease, received the Julian Award in recognition of his contributions to drug development. As part of the award, Brown received an honorary kente cloth, which he is pictured wearing. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
Hope Kumakli, a second-year graduate student at North Carolina A&T State University, presents the results of a survey he conducted in Greensboro, N.C., and nearby Durham analyzing metabolite residue in hair samples from 197 human subjects. Kumakli wants to see hair analysis increase in popularity as a means of testing for the use of controlled substances. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
ACS Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Tom Connelly visits with fifth-grader Jayla Peek from Orlando’s Orange Center Elementary School during NOBCChE’s STEM Weekend science fair. As part of the fair, Peek presented a poster in which she described how she successfully built a solar-powered oven for cooking s’mores out of a cardboard box, construction paper, and aluminum foil. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
Team Phoenix—made up of Atlanta middle schoolers Taylor James (from left), Imani Fuller, Brooke Harris, and Ny’Asia Bell—are all smiles before competing in NOBCChE’s science bowl competition. Credit: Jeff Huber/C&EN
