Navneet Khetrapal, who recently completed his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has joined the group as a postdoc.Welcome, Navneet!
Category Archives: People and Events
Allison Dzubak accepts a faculty position.
Former graduate student, Allison Dzubak has accepted a faculty position at Bowdoin College.Congratulations, Professor Dzubak!
Jing Xie accepts faculty position!
Jing Xie, a postdoc in the group, will soon depart to begin a faculty position at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China.We wish you the very best, Professor Xie!
Dr. Jenny Vitillo accepts assistant professor position.
Dr. Jenny Vitillo will start her independent position as assistant professor at the Università dell’Insubria, Italy.We are sorry to see her go, but this is terrific! Wishing you all the best, Jenny. Keep us posted with your successes.
Gagliardi Group members pass their preliminary examinations.
Second-year graduate students, Riddhish Pandharkar, Thais Scott and Jacob White passed their preliminary examinations.Congratulations to the three of them!
Two graduate students join Gagliardi group!
The group welcomes two graduate students: Saumil Chheda and Benjamin Yeh.We are glad to have you with us.
Sam Stoneburner’s paper selected for cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Graduate student, Sam Stoneburner‘s recent paper, “Air Separation by Catechol-Ligated Transition Metals: A Quantum Chemical Screening”, was selected as the cover feature for the latest issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
The Department of Chemistry honored its 2017-18 Outstanding Teaching Assistants and scholars on September 6, 2018.
Riddhish Umesh Pandharkar (co-advised by Chris Cramer) received an Honorable Mention for his outstanding work as a Teaching Assistant. Congrats Riddhish!
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.
