Riddhish Umesh Pandharkar (co-advised by Chris Cramer) received an Honorable Mention for his outstanding work as a Teaching Assistant. Congrats Riddhish!
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Laura elected member of Academia Europaea!
Laura has been elected a Member of Academia Europaea. Academia Europaea members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education, and research. Founded in 1988, Academia Europaea has about 3,800 members who include leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics, and the law. The Academy organizes meetings and workshops, provides scientific and scholarly advice (one of the 5 pan-European organisations recently invited by the European Commission to participate in the new Scientific Advice Mechanism – SAM) and publishes the European Review.
It was wonderful having the summer undergraduates participate in the Gagliardi, Truhlar, and Goodpaster groups!
On August 10, Jan Kadlec (Charles University, Prague), Hung Vuong (Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA), and Elizabeth Smithwick (Duke University, Durham, NC) successfully completed the 2018 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry sponsored by CTC, ICDC, and NMGC.
Michelle Anderson participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program.
Undergraduate researcher, Michelle Anderson participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at NIST Boulder.While there, she worked on comparisons of different force fields for viscosity simulations of small molecules. The SURF Program is designed to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in STEM through a unique research experience that provides an opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on experience, working with cutting edge technology in one of the world’s leading research organizations. Congratulations to Michelle.
The Gagliardi Group receives $12M, 4-Year Grant from DOE
The Gagliardi Group is excited that the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center has received a $12 million grant over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue leading the discovery of a new class of materials used in energy research.
Two members have departed the Gagliardi group in July to begin new professional opportunities.
Dr. Andrew Sand will soon start a position at Butler University, and Dr. Soumen Ghosh will begin a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute. We wish them all the best and look forward to following their successes!
Soumen Ghosh successfully defended his doctoral thesis!
On June 22, Gagliardi group graduate student, Soumen Ghosh, (co-advised by Chris Cramer) successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Static and Dynamic Charge and Energy Transport in Organic Electronics.”Dr. Ghosh will head next to a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute to work with Frank Neese. We wish him all the best as he transitions to his next professional undertaking!
Laura gives a lecture at the ICS Symposium.
On May 30, Laura gave a lecture at the ICS Symposium Honoring the 2018 Wolf Prize Laureates in Chemistry. During the symposium she was admitted to Honorary Membership of the Israel Chemical Society.
Dr. Bess Vlaisavljevich and Dr. Varinia Bernales, two previous members of the Gagliardi group, visited our group on May 25.
Dr. Vlaisavljevich is now assistant professor at the University of South Dakota and Dr. Bernales has just started working for Dow Chemical Company, in Midland, Michigan. We are very proud of you!
On May 7, Laura received the Medal of Science Academy from the University of Bologna, her Alma Mater.
On May 7, Laura received the medal of science academy from the University of Bologna, her Alma Mater.
