Congratulations to Zain Zaidi for being named a 2024 Goldwater Scholar! Over the last almost two years, under Arshad’s mentorship, Zain has been working on several photochemistry projects. Well done, Zain!
Zain wins ACS COMP Undergrad Poster Award!
Congratulations to Zain, who (as a rising sophomore!) won the ACS COMP Division Undergraduate Poster Award at the Fall 2023 National Meeting of the ACS in San Francisco. Great job, Zain, and great job to his postdoc mentor, Arshad!
Update: SBU did a news article on Zain and Arshad’s accomplishment. Check it out!

Congratulations, Almost-Dr Durden!
Congratulations to Andy Durden, who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Next month, Andy will be joining the group of Berny Schlegel at Wayne State University. Keep up the good work, Andy!

Welcome Back, Jiri!
Jiri Suchan rejoins the group as an IACS Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome back, and congratulations!
Congrats, Ken!
Congratulations to Ken, who successfully defended is MS thesis last week! Ken has done wonderful work with our collaborators in the Jiao group, developing novel strategies for compressing the CI vector of strongly correlated systems. (Stay tuned for a publication.) Ken is moving to Brown University to pursue his PhD.
Congrats Frank!
Congratulations to Frank Xin Qi Liu, group member and Bronx High School of Science student, who has been named a Top 300 Scholar in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for his work on fluorescent dyes for diagnostic applications! And nice work, as well, to his graduate student mentor, Fangchun Liang!
Congrats Jiri Suchan!
Friend of the group Jiří Suchan has been awarded the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) Postdoctoral Fellowship! Jiří is currently finishing his Ph.D. in the Slavíček group at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, and will return to IACS to start his Fellowship this summer. Congrats, Jiří!
Congratulations, Ying!
Congratulations to Ying for passing her candidacy exam last week. Nice work, Ying!
Congrats, Gabriella!
Congratulations, Gabriella Albanese, on completing her honors thesis work in our group and graduating with her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry. Nice work, Gabriella!
Yinan Shu Wins ACS COMP Wiley Award
Belated congratulations to former Levine group graduate student, Yinan Shu, for being awarded the Spring 2021 Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award by the ACS COMP Division. Congrats, Yinan!
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