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MWTCC has come and gone

The Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference took place this week in East Lansing.  Thanks to all who participated!  If you missed it, please check out the scientific program, the poster prize winners, and some pictures of the event.  It was a good time!

Many thanks to our sponsors: PetaChem, JPC, JCP, CORE-CM, the MSU local section of the ACS, the MSU Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, and Office of the Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies.

Thanks also to my co-organizers, Brenda Franklin, Mary Mroz, and the students who helped with the organization and set up.

I look forward to seeing you next year at the 50th annual MWTCC.  It’s returning to where it all began: University of Chicago!

Welcome, Tiffany!

Tiffany Rivera, an REU student from Cal. State Monterey Bay, has joined our group for the summer.  Tiffany will be studying organic molecules which may serve as redox couples in flow batteries.  Welcome, Tiffany!

Welcome, Andy!

Andy Durden, an incoming graduate student, will be spending the summer doing research in our lab.  Andy will investigate electronic excitations in metal clusters and nanoparticles.  Welcome to the group, Andy!

Welcome Dylan and Derek!

Welcome to first year graduate student Dylan Hardwick, who has just joined our group!

Also a belated welcome to undergraduate student Derek Metcalf, who has been working with us since the beginning of the semester on developing protocols to model the ligand donor ability in late transition metal compounds!

 

 

Thanks to the ACS COMP division!

Ben is both honored and grateful that the ACS COMP division is awarding him the Spring 2017 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry.  This award will support Ben’s travel to the spring 2017 national meeting of the ACS in San Francisco to present a poster titled “Multireference Quantum Chemistry and Conical Intersections at the Nanoscale.”  See you there!

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