News

December

  • Congratulations to Lauren Abbott for earning her Ph.D!!! We wish her the best at her new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories.
Lauren at graduation!

Lauren at graduation!

August

  • Congratulations to Sasha Perkins for earning her M.Sc.!!! We wish her the best at her new position as Process Engineer at ExxonMobil Chemical.

July

  • Mike attended the CCP5 Summer School in Manchester, UK.
  • David and MaryBeth completed successful REUs this summer.

June

  • Dr. Jairo Perilla is visiting from National University of Colombia, and Dr. Martin Lisal is visiting from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
  • We welcome two REU students to the group this summer, MaryBeth Petrie from Juniata College and David Roehrich from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

May

  • Congratulations to Justin on completing his thesis titled "Molecular Simulations of Octene/Styrene Divinylbenzene Copolymers"
  • Our recent article, "Analysis of force fields and BET theory for polymers of intrinsic microporosity", is featured on the front cover of Molecular Simulation. Link
Cover art for Molecular Simulation

Cover art for Molecular Simulation Vol. 39, Issue 5.

April

  • Coray lost a bet to Sasha and had to paint her nails yellow for a day!
Coray's yellow nails

Coray's yellow nails after losing a bet!

March

  • Polymatic is now available for download! Check out our YouTube video on the Polymatic page and download the distribution at nanoHUB.
  • Congratulations to Fish and Christine on the birth of their daughter, Veronica, on February 21st!
Veronica Stanik

Veronica Stanik and the group

January

  • We welcome two visitors to the group, professor Freddy Figueira from Simón Bolívar University and graduate student Marcela Charry from the National University of Colombia.
  • Congratulations to Kyle on passing his Comprehensive Exam!
  • Kyle received the Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Graduate Students for the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA this spring.