• B.S. in Chemistry, Mississippi College, 2004

Substituent effects in pi-pi interactions

• 3rd Place Poster Award, SETCA 2006
• Best Poster Award, 14th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry (Jackson, MS, 2005)
• SETCA Graduate Student Poster Award, 2005
• NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2005
• DOE Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship (declined), 2005

``Coventional Strain Energy in Dimethyl-Substituted Cyclobutane and the Gem-Dimethyl Effect,'' A. L. Ringer and D. H. Magers, J. Org. Chem. 72, 2533-2537 (2007)

``Substituent Effects in Sandwich Configurations of Multiply Substituted Benzene Dimers Are Not Solely Governed By Electrostatic Control,'' A. L. Ringer and C. D. Sherrill, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 4574-4575 (2009) (doi: 10.1021/ja809720r)

``First Principles Computation of Lattice Energies of Organic Solids: The Benzene Crystal,'' A. L. Ringer and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Eur. J. 14, 2542-2547 (2008) (doi: 10.1002/chem.200701622)

``Low-Lying Singlet Excited States of Isocyanogen,'' A. L. Ringer, C. D. Sherrill, R. A. King, and T. D. Crawford, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 108, 1137-1140 (2008) (doi: 10.1002/qua.21586)

``Models of S/π Interactions in Protein Structures: Comparison of the H₂S-benzene Complex with PDB Data,'' A. L. Ringer, A. Senenko, and C. D. Sherrill, Protein Sci. 16, 2216-2223 (2007) (doi: 10.1110/ps.073002307)

``Aliphatic C--H/π Interactions: Methane-Benzene, Methane-Phenol, and Methane-Indole Complexes,'' A. L. Ringer, M. S. Figgs, M. O. Sinnokrot, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 10822-10828 (2006) (doi: 10.1021/jp062740l)

``The Effect of Multiple Substituents On Sandwich and T-Shaped π-π Interactions,'' A. L. Ringer, M. O. Sinnokrot, R. P. Lively, and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Eur. J. 12, 3821-3828 (2006) (doi: 10.1002/chem.200501316)