Stefan Malone Cooper, Jr. obtained his B.S. in chemistry from the College of Charleston (Charleston, SC)  in 2007. There he worked, as an undergraduate researcher, on creating derivatives of the antibiotic,  Cytosporone E, advised by Dr. Justin Wyatt. Later in 2015, Stefan obtained a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry  advised by Dr. William E. Crowe. His dissertation was entitled “TRANS-POSITIONING” CARBONS  WITHIN STRAINED CAGED BICYCLIC(S): ROM/RCM (RING-OPENING/RINGCLOSING  METATHESIS AND DIECKMANN CONDESATION ROUTES TO A CIS-DECALIN  INFRASTRUCTURE. Stefan completed a short stint as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab Dr. Herman  Sintim in 2015, at the University of Maryland and later was appointed in 2016 as a Path to Professoriate  Fellow within Hampton’s University NSF Partnership for Research and Education in Material (PREM).  Stefan was appointed as an assistant professor in the department of Chemistry and Physics at Alcorn State in August 2017.