Samuel Nkrumah-Agyeefi set out for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) intending to keep a low profile. It was his first major conference since becoming a Ph.D. candidate in the biotechnology program at UAH, and he didn't want anything to distract him from his poster presentation. So no one was more surprised than him when he walked away with a first-place win at the NOBCChE 2-Minute Drill Research Pitch sponsored by Corning Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline.