On June 11, graduate student, Sam Stoneburner successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Accurate quantum mechanical study of singlet-triplet gaps in organic radicals and of metal catecholates for air separation in metal organic frameworks.”Dr. Stoneburner will head next to a faculty position at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. Congratulations, Sam!
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Gagliardi group hosts a summer high school student.
High School student, Maddy Oakes has joined the group this summer and will primarily work on understanding noncovalent interactions in supramolecular systems.Welcome, Maddy!
Meagan Oakley has joined the group as a postdoc.
She recently completed her Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry at the University of Alberta. Welcome, Meagan!
Laura has been awarded a prestigious McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair by University President Eric Kaler.
This is one of the University’s highest faculty awards. It acknowledges the critical contributions of important University faculty who have distinguished themselves and their departments in the missions of research, education, and public engagement.
Prachi Sharma awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Fourth-year graduate student, Prachi Sharma has been awarded a highly competitive Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year. Prachi’s research interests focus on developing novel quantum mechanical methods that can accurately describe electron-electron interactions. She is using these methods to predict chemical properties of actinide-transition metal complexes, which are important for catalysis, study of electronic spectra and excited state properties of various organic and inorganic molecules.
Gagliardi group hosts a summer visiting scholar!
Ph.D. student, Eva Vos of the Department of Chemistry at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain, joins the group as a visiting scholar during Summer 2019 to collaborate with Gagliardi Group members. Welcome Eva!</p>
Benjamin Yeh has received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship .
Benjamin Yeh, co-advised by Laura Gagliardi and Aditya Bhan, has received a fellowship in the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).His research focuses on measuring the kinetics and determining the reaction mechanism for the oligomerization of propenes and butenes on nickel-based metal-organic frameworks through experiment and computation.
Sam Stoneburner has received the 2018-19 Overend Award.
Group member, Sam Stoneburner has received the 2018-19 Overend Award in Physical Chemistry in the theory/computation area.This award honors outstanding physical chemistry graduate student researchers and is named after Professor John Overend who was a physical chemist in the Department of Chemistry from 1960 to 1984.
Laura gives a lecture at the University of Georgia.
On March 19, Laura gave the 32nd Annual Coulson Lecture at the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.She received the plaque from Professor Henry F. Schaefer III.
Joshua Borycz has accepted a position as STEM Librarian at Vanderbilt University.
Former graduate student, Joshua Borycz has accepted a position as STEM Librarian at Vanderbilt University. In this role he will be an advocate for library services to scientific researchers. In addition to teaching both graduate and undergraduate students how to conduct research more efficiently and how to organize and store research data, he will perform research to determine what tools and practices will most help faculty and students succeed in their coursework and research. Congratulations, Josh!