Effective tomorrow, July 1, I (Ben) will be an associate professor with tenure. Many thanks to all of my friends and colleagues at MSU and elsewhere.
An especially big thanks to the students whose hard work and creative problem solving were responsible for the science our team has done over the last six years.
And another especially big thanks to Carol and Mark for their support and patience.
Congratulations to new Ph.D. candidate Mike Esch for passing his second year oral exam. Nice work!
Congratulations to Derek Metcalf, who was awarded the Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry by the ACS PHYS division. This award recognizes Derek’s work in research and his performance in both undergraduate and graduate physical chemistry courses. Nice work, Derek!
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 Garrett, who successfully defended his dissertation yesterday. Garrett will continue his scientific career in the group of Prof. Charlie Brooks at the University of Michigan starting in September. Nice work, Garrett!
Congrats to Yinan for successfully defending his thesis today!
He’ll be moving to Minnesota to join the Truhlar group in mid-July.
Scott’s recent JCTC paper was chosen as the ACS Editors’ Choice article for October 5th!
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.
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