The seminar was led by Saundra Y. Guire, a retired professor at Louisiana State University and author. According the LSU webpage, she has won numerous awards of achievement, including a recent one in 2017, the “American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantage Students to Pursue Careers in the Chemical Sciences.” In the past, she received the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award when she was at Cornell University, the presidential award in 2007 for Excellence in Scie