Kristy Stensaas

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Professor of Chemistry
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

After earning my B.A. in chemistry from the University of Wyoming, I was employed by Church & Dwight Inc. outside Green River, Wyoming, as a quality control analyst. We made products like baking soda and laundry detergent. I then decided to return to graduate school and earned a Ph.D. in chemistry four years later. My husband and I moved to Mississippi in 1997, where I joined the faculty at Millsaps College. We have raised our two children here.

Education

  • Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, August 1997; University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.
  • Dissertation: Mechanistic Studies in the Reactions of High Energy Oxidants with Organosulfur Substrates
  • B.A., Chemistry, May 1989; University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

Expertise

  • Organic Chemistry