Makenzie Long joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Creighton University in Fall 2023. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Kansas State University in 2009 and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2014. Before joining Creighton, she worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Merced (2014-2017) and as an assistant professor at the University of Central Arkansas (2017-2023).