The 2025 NAWD Chemistry Research Symposium was held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Shelby Center for Science and Technology on Thursday, April 17th. 

Thirty-five undergraduate and graduate students from four universities in Alabama and Tennes

We are excited to announce the 2025 Chemistry Research Symposium co-hosted by the North Alabama & Wilson Dam Local Sections of the American Chemical Society. The symposium will be held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on April 17th from 3-5 pm. We encourage all undergraduate and graduate students interested in presenting a chemistry-related research poster to submit their abstract by March 31 for full consideration.

We are delighted to welcome Brooke Holcombe to University of North Alabama on October 3, 2024 to present her research entitled:

Evolution of Amyloid Structure Across Alzheimer's Disease Stages

Her seminar will be held in the UNA Mitchell Burford Science and

We would like to recognize the undergraduate and graduate awards recipients

The North Alabama Wilson Dam (NAWD) Chemistry Research Symposium is this Thursday, April 18th from 3–5 pm.

We are excited to announce the first Chemistry Research Symposium co-hosted by the North Alabama & Wilson Dam Local Sections of the American Chemical Society.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Sharifa Love-Rutledge to UNA next Tuesday, March 15. Dr. Sharifa Love-Rutledge is an assistant professor in the chemistry department at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and studies diabetes, insulin resistance, and aging. In 2021, Dr. Love-Rutledge was named by Cell Mentor as one of 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America. She is also the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. from The University of Alabama Department of Chemistry.

Come and enjoy free food! Great opportunity! Excellent Networking!

Get to know chemistry and OHS faculty and students!

Join a student organization! Everyone is welcome!

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Dan Norman, was chairman of the Wilson Dam Section in 1978-79.  Due to his leadership, WDS won the Small Section Award.  He and his wife are volunteers in the testing of Pfizer's vaccine. Here he briefly looks back at the path that science has lead him in his career and his current volunteering in the Pfizer study.

Chair: Dr. Sara Johnson

Chair-Elect: Dr. Cameron Gren

Secretary and Treasurer: Dr. Christopher Stopera

Councilor: Dr. Amanda Hofacker Coffman

Alternate Councilor: Dr. Sara Johnson

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