Becca earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and anthropology from Grinnell College. She completed her PhD in chemistry at the University of Minnesota in 2015 under the guidance of Ken Leopold. She then moved from Minnesota to Indiana to Mississippi and finally, to Ohio. Along the way, she built aquaponic systems in K-12 public schools and designed accompanying curriculum, wrote scripts for educational science videos, oversaw the upper division chemistry labs at Mississippi State University, and had two children. She began teaching at OSU in the fall of 2023. In her free time, she enjoys following Arsenal, playing soccer, knitting, and spending time with her family.
Publications:
| 17. | Huff, A.K.; Ward, R.M.; Leopold, K.R. Microwave spectrum and structure of the SO3-SO2 weakly bound complex. J. Mol. Spec. 2020, 371, 111327, | |
| 16. | Smith, C.J.; Huff, A.K.; Ward, R.M.; Leopold, K.R. Carboxylic Sulfuric Anhydrides. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2020, 124, 601. | |
| 15. | Boley, S.P.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Leroy, J.M.; Engebretsen, K.M.; Stellpflug, S.J.; Development and Feasibility of a Porcine Model of Amlodipine Toxicity. J. Med. Tox. 2020, 16, 61. | |
| 14. | Huff, A.K.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Smith, C.J.; Leopold, K.R. A Perfluorinated Carboxylic Sulfuric Anhydride: Microwave and Computational Studies of CF3COOSO2OH. J. Phys. Chem. A 2019, 123, 2237. | |
| 13. | Smith, C.J.; Huff, A.K.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Leopold, K.R. Hydration of an Acid Anhydride: The Water Complex of Acetic Sulfuric Anhydride. J. Phys. Chem. A 2018, 122, 4549. | |
| 12. | Smith, C.J.; Huff, A.K.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Leopold, K.R. Observation of Two Conformers of Acrylic Sulfuric Anhydride by Microwave Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. A 2017, 121, 9074. | |
| 11. | Huff, A.K.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Smith, C.J.; Leopold, K.R. Facile Formation of Acetic Sulfuric Anhydride: Microwave Spectrum, Internal Rotation, and Theoretical Calculations. J. Phys. Chem. A 2017, 121, 5659. | |
| 10. | Dewberry, C.T.; Mueller, J.L.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Timp, B.A.; Marshall, M.D.; Leung, H.O.; and Leopold, K.R. The effect of ortho-fluorination on intermolecular interactions of pyridine: Microwave spectrum and structure of the CO2 – 2,6-difluoropyridine weakly bound complex. J. Mol. Spec. 2017, 373, 1146. | |
| 9. | Mackenzie, R.B.; Dewberry, C.T.; Cornelius, R.D.; Smith, C.J.; and Leopold, K.R. Multidimensional Large Amplitude Dynamics in the Pyridine-Water Complex. J. Phys. Chem. A 2017, 121, 855. | |
| 8. | Dewberry, C.T.; Cornelius, R.D.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Smith, C.J.; Dvorak, M.A.; Leopold, K.R. Microwave Spectrum and Structure of the 3,5-difluoropyridine-CO2 van der Waals Complex. J. Mol. Spec. 2016, 328, 67. | |
| 7. | Mackenzie, R.B.; Dewberry, C.T.; Leopold, K.R. The Trimethylamine-Formic Acid Complex: Microwave Characterization of a Prototype for Potential Precursors to Atmospheric Aerosol. J. Phys. Chem. A 2016, 120, 2268. | |
| 6. | Mackenzie, R.B.; Dewberry, C.T.; Coulston, E.; Cole, G.C.; Legon, A.C.; Tew, D.P.; Leopold, K.R. Intramolecular Competition Between n-pair and π-pair Hydrogen Bonding: Microwave Spectrum and Internal Dynamics of the Pyridine-Acetylene Hydrogen-Bonded Complex. J. Chem. Phys. 2015, 143, 104309. | |
| 5. | Dewberry, C.T.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Green, S.; Leopold, K.R. 3D-printed Slit Nozzles for Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2015, 86, 065107. | |
| 4. | Mackenzie, R.B.; Dewberry, C.T.; Leopold, K.R. Gas phase observation and microwave spectroscopic characterization of formic sulfuric anhydride. Science2015, 349, 6243. | |
| 3. | Mackenzie, R.B.; Dewberry, C.T.; Leopold, K.R. The Formic Acid – Nitric Acid Complex: Microwave Spectrum, Structure, and Proton Transfer. J. Phys. Chem. A 2014, 118, 7975. | |
| 2. | Dewberry, C.T.; Huff, A.K.; Mackenzie, R.B.; Leopold, K.R. Microwave spectrum, van der Waals bond length and 131Xe quadrupole coupling constant of Xe-SO3. J. Mol. Spec. 2014, 304, 43. | |
| 1. | Mackenzie, R.B.; Timp, B.A.; Mo, Y.; Leopold, K.R. Effects of a remote binding partner on the electric field and electric field gradient at an atom in a weakly bound trimer. J. Chem. Phys. 2013, 139, 034320. | |