Webster Group
Department of Chemistry
Mississippi State University
Phone: (662) 325-7224
ewebster@chemistry.msstate.edu

Charles Edwin Webster, Professor and Associate Head

Current Appointment:
2018 - present, Associate Head, Dept. of Chemistry, Mississippi State University
2016 - present, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Mississippi State University

Previous Appointments:
Organometallics, Editorial Advisory Board
2014 - 2016, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Mississippi State University
2010 - 2014, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Memphis
2005 - 2010, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Memphis
2007 - 2010, Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P.R.C.
2004-2005, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University
2002-2003, Lecturer, Texas A&M University
1999-2004, Post Doc, Texas A&M University

Education:
B.S. Chemistry/Biochemistry, 1995, University of West Florida
Ph.D. Physical Inorganic, 1999, University of Florida

More about Dr. Webster's PhD advisors:
Professors Russell S. Drago and Michael C. Zerner

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Webster Group Baseball Outing 2022 (screenshot courtesy of Matthew Figgins and ESPN)

Webster Group Baseball Outing 2022 (screenshot courtesy of Matthew Figgins and ESPN)

Webster Group Graduation Party 2021

Webster Group Graduation Party 2021

Webster Group Graduation Party 2021

Webster Group X-Mas 2020

Webster Group Halloween 2020

Webster Group 2020

SURC 2020

Barn Party 2019

Feeding and Powering the World 2019

Webster and Hollis Groups 2017

Webster and Hollis Groups 2016

Webster Group 2012

Webster Group 2010

Webster Group 2009

Webster Group 2008

Previous Group Members and Visitors

• Dr. Eric Van Dornshuld, Assistant Clinical Prof
• Dr. Nghia Le, graduate student
• Kittimeth Thammanatpong, visiting graduate student
• Emdad Ullah, graduate student
• Kari Chamberlain, Undergraduate Student
• Garrett Wells, Undergraduate Student
• Dr. Fernando Zamudio, Visiting Scientist
• Joseph Anderson, 2022 NSF REU student
• Nathan Frey, Undergraduate Student
• Matthew Figgins, Undergraduate Student
• Jacob Smith, Undergraduate Student
• Laura Olive, Undergraduate Student
• Mostafa Manjahi, graduate student
• Dr. Robert Lamb, graduate student
• Mahnaz Gohari, graduate student
• Connor Chitmon, MSMS High School Student
• Fatemeh Aghabozorgi, graduate student
• Dr. Min Zhang, graduate student and Visiting Scientist
• Dr. Guangchao Liang, graduate student and Post Doc
• Roger Letterman, Ph.D. Student (Memphis)
• Wesley Harrison, undergraduate student, Summer 2017/Fall 2018
• Mayukh Datta, undergraduate student, Summer 2017/Fall 2018
• James Cope, graduate Student, 2016-2018
• Dr. Jason Denny, Post Doc, 2017-2018 (joint with Professor Keith Hollis)
• Dr. Georgette Lang, Post Doc, 2017-2018 (joint with Professor Keith Hollis)
• Dr. Ted Helgert, Post Doc, 2017-2018 (joint with Professor Keith Hollis)
• Dr. Vivek Dixit, Post Doc, 2015-2018
• Dr. Eric Van Dornshuld, Post Doc, 2014-2017
• Hunter Hessler, 2017 NSF REU student, Spring 2018
• R. Shelby Ruiz, 2017 NSF REU student
• Tyler Woodby, 2016 and 2017 NSF REU student, Summer 2016/Fall 2017
• Torin Harrison, 2016 NSF REU student and Spring 2015/Fall 2016
• Reid Pearlman, 2016 NSF REU student and Spring 2015
• Ian McCraw, 2016 NSF REU student
• Dr. Gopal Akurathi, Post Doc and graduate student (joint with Professor Keith Hollis)
• Maggie Leake, graduate student, 2015-2016
• Dr. Sean Reilly, Post Doc and graduate student (joint with Professor Keith Hollis)
• Chris Cain, graduate student (joint student with Professor Keith Hollis)
• Wesley Clark, graduate student (joint student with Professor Keith Hollis)
• Henry Valle, graduate student (joint student with Professor Keith Hollis)
• James Barr, graduate student (Memphis)
• Thomas McFadden, graduate student (Memphis, joint student with Professor Ted Burkey)
• Dr. Katie Leigh, Ph.D., 2014
• Dr. Nathan DeYonker, Research Scientist
• Ava Conner, 2014 NSF REU student
• Rebecca McCown, Undergraduate Student, 2014
• Ryan Wible, Ph.D. Student (joint student with Professor Tom Sutter)
• Jay Yarbro, Undergraduate Student, 2013-2014
• T. Ryan Rogers, 2013 NSF REU student
• Shesha Shah, 2013 NSF REU student
• Alexander Bernal, 2012 NSF REU student and 2012-2014
• Eryn Eitel, 2011 NSF REU student
• Thomas Pangia, 2011 NSF REU student, Burkey and Webster groups
• Aaron Schulzetenberg, NSF 2011 REU student, Burkey and Webster groups
• Trevor Seguin, 2011 NSF REU student
• Duncan Breland, Graduate Student, M.S., 2010
• Zack Munger, Undergraduate Student (currently geology graduate student at University of Buffalo)
• Angelique Greene, Honors Thesis and 2009 NSF REU Student, Fujiwara and Webster Groups
• Timothy Howze, 2009 NSF REU Student, Fujiwara and Webster Groups
• Jeffrey Ivie, 2010 and 2009 NSF REU Student, Zhou and Webster Groups
• Veronica Shields, 2009 NSF REU Student, Burkey and Webster Groups
• Darian Carter, 2009 Project SEED High School Student, Burkey and Webster Groups
• Amanda (Bowen) Kirn, 2006 NSF REU Student (M.S. from St. Louis University in the Martin Group)
• C. Denise (Enekwa) Okafor, 2006 NSF REU Student (Assistant Professor at Penn State); Post Doc at Emory University; Ph.D. from from Georgia Tech in the Hud and Williams Groups and M.S. from Georgia Tech in the Hernandez Group)
• Pooja Priyanka Kannam, Undergraduate Student, 2011
• London Lamar, 2007 Project SEED High School Student
• Louis Montedonico, Graduate student, 2006
• Corderrius Muse, 2007 Project SEED High School Student
• Kristie Ruddick, Graduate student, Ph.D., 2007-2010
• Jennifer Seat, Graduate student, 2005-2006
• Timothy Schluechtermann, Graduate student, 2013
• Jeff Swan, Graduate student, 2007-2010
• Man Yang, Graduate student, 2011-2012
• Yegor Zyrianov, Post Doc, 2007-2008