Ben is honored and grateful that the Journal of Physical Chemistry and the ACS PHYS division have awarded him the JPC A Lectureship!  Ben will deliver his lecture at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Washington D.C. in August.  Hope to see you there!

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!

Congratulations to Wei-Tao for passing his second year oral exam.  Nice work!

Congratulations to Scott and Garrett, who respectively won best student talk and best poster awards at this weekend’s Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference in Ann Arbor!  Scott’s talk was on our GPU-accelerated strategy for optimizing conical intersections in nanomaterials, and Garrett’s poster was on some charge transport in graphitic carbon nitride photocatalysts.  Great job, guys!

Update: The College of Natural Sciences has posted a news story of Scott and Garrett’s awards.

Congratulations to Scott Fales for being awarded the Dye Fellowship by the MSU Department of Chemistry!  The Dye Fellowship (named in honor of MSU Professor Emeritus Jim Dye) is awarded to one physical chemistry graduate student each year to support their summer research.