Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

46 MILLENNIUM D r. Angela O. Bedenbaugh was born in Seguin, Texas, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a B.S., cum laude, in 1961. Dr. Bedenbaugh earned a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from the University of South Carolina in 1967. She served on the Committee on Services and Resources for Women for two terms and was a member of the executive board of the women’s studies program at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Bedenbaugh taught chemistry beginning in 1960. As a leader in science education in the state of Mississippi, she participated in the governor’s conference on compulsory school attendance in 1976 and was a member of the state superintendent of education’s advisory committee in 1998. She has received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, two web projects fromNASA, and four grants from the National Science Foundation totaling $3,039,315 for statewide science teacher education. In addition, she has worked with government agencies as a website director under two NASA grants, as well as in the private sector as a co-principal investigator on a BellSouth Foundation grant for science and mathematics teacher mentoring. Dr. Bedenbaugh is known for her patented discovery of a chemical process for converting carboxylic acids to aldehydes and amines (U.S. Patent #3,819,704), which she received in 1974. She presented the program “Linking Science &Mathematics With Dimensional Analysis” at the Arkansas Conference on Teaching in November 2002 and participated in People to People International’s U.S.-Egypt Education Forum in late 2007. Her professional memberships include Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society; The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International; the National Science Teachers Association; and the American Chemical Society. Dr. Bedenbaugh is the author of the book “Nomenplayture,” an original collection of crossword puzzles related to chemistry, and co-authored two volumes each of “Handbook for High School Chemistry Teachers” and “Teaching Physical Science.” In 1996, the John and Angela Bedenbaugh Award was created by the Coastal Mississippi Association of High School Chemistry Teachers in honor of Dr. Bedenbaugh and her husband. She also received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and a Marquis Who’s Who Humanitarian Award. Angela O. Bedenbaugh, PhD Chemistry Educator The University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS