mmackey@wmcarey.edu (601) 318-6083
Mary Mackey joined William Carey University in 2014 and currently serves as Chair of Chemistry and the Physical Sciences. Dr. Mackey has overseen a number of activities for the department, including an MS-INBRE grant and the addition of ACS examinations to the curriculum. She remains committed to a philosophy of improvement for students and faculty alike. Dr. Mackey earned her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Southern Mississippi, where her research focused on separation science for fullerenes using functionalized silica gel, MALDI-TOF, and HPLC. Her dissertation -- Exploration in Metallic Nitride Fullerenes and Oxometallic Fullerenes: A New Class of Metallofullerenes -- included the development of a novel separation method as well as the discovery of several new molecules; this research was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP). Whenever possible, Dr. Mackey enjoys traveling to new places, and she has participated in exchange programs at Exeter University in England during her undergraduate studies, at UC Davis in California while completing her graduate degree, and at Linyi University in China as a faculty member.
