Check it out: Thomas, who is getting ready to defend soon, was featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Spotlight!
Zain Awarded Hertz Fellowship!
Congratulations to former group undergraduate, Zain Zaidi, who has been award a Hertz Fellowship!
The Hertz Fellowship is arguably the most prestigious science graduate fellowship in the US. Zaid is now a Ph.D. student in the group of Joe Subotnik at Princeton.
Group Awards Round Up
The group is collecting awards faster than I can get it together to post them on the website, so here is a round up:
Soon-to-defend Ph.D. student, Thomas Knoll, will receive two awards at commencement: The Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service and the Chemistry Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student
Ubaid Hassan, who spent the summer of 2024 with us as part of the IACS DCD REU program, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the group of Andrew Rappe at U. Penn.
And last but not least, former group undergraduate Zain Zaidi was awarded the Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Zain is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Princeton in the group of Joe Subotnik.
Congratulations and nice work, all around!
Group Members in the News
A couple exciting news items:
Group alum Zain Zaidi (now a PhD student in the Subotnik group at Princeton) was names a finalist for the Hertz Foundation Fellowship.
And, group undergraduate Darren Wang was names SBU URECA (Undergrad Research and Creative Activities) Researcher of the Month.
Congratulations to you both!
Welcome, Dhiraj!
We are very happy to have first year PhD student Dhiraj Raj officially join the group. Welcome, Dhiraj!
Zain in the News
Check out this article in the SBU News regarding Zain Zaidi’s Goldwater Award. Congrats again, Zain!
Open-Source AIMS with PySpawn and OpenMolCas!
Check out the newest feature in PySpawn: an interface to the OpenMolCas electronic structure code. This fully open-source option allows you to run ab initio multiple spawning (AIMS) not only with CASSCF, but also several flavors of MS-CASPT2 (MS, XMS, RMS, and XDW). Keep an eye out for a corresponding manuscript to show up on ChemRxiv in the next few days. Lea-Maria Ibele and Davide Avagliano really led this effort, and it’s been a tremendous pleasure for Ben and Arshad to work with them on this!
Congratulations, Arshad!
Postdoc Arshad Mehmood will be moving to a new position as a research scientist in the Division of Information Technology at Stony Brook University. Congratulations to Arshad for this well deserved opportunity! And as a bonus, we’re very excited that despite the new position, we will still have the opportunity to work closely with him.
ACTC in Lake Tahoe
Fangchun, Arshad, Ben, Caitlin, and Andy attended ACTC in Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is pretty much the best place to talk science! Here we are on a sunset cruise following the TeraChem/FMS Developers meeting. (Thanks, Todd!)
Moving to Stony Brook
Perhaps this announcement is a little late, but our group will be moving to Stony Brook University in August! We’ll be associated with the Department of Chemistry and Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences there. Our friends and colleagues at MSU will be dearly missed, but we are very excited about the new opportunities that SBU presents.
Levine Research Group at Stony Brook University 
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