Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering

Posted December 2nd, 2008 by site admin

Congratulations to the 2009 CoMSEF Graduate Student Award winners:

Dimitrios Argyris (The University of Oklahoma)
Advisor: Alberto Striolo 

Gloria A. E. Oxford (Northwestern University)
Advisors: Randall Snurr and Linda Broadbelt

About the Award

AIChE's Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) graduate student awards recognize excellence in research by graduate students. The intent of the awards is to reward significant contributions to research in computational molecular science and engineering by students. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium. Two awards are to be given annually.  Nominations should consist of a nominating letter from the student's research advisor and the curriculum vitae of the nominee. These should be sent by the advisor via e-mail in pdf format to the CoMSEF Chair.  In addition, nominees must present a poster at the CoMSEF Poster session at the AIChE annual meeting.  The nominee must be a graduate student at the time of the poster presentation, and the faculty nominator must be a member of CoMSEF.  Nominations will be selected by a committee composed of CoMSEF officers based on the student's CV, the nomination letter from the advisor, and the quality of the poster presentation.

2009 Details

  • nominees must present a poster at the CoMSEF Poster session (21003 Poster Session: Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum, link). The deadline for submission for poster abstracts is May 11, 2009. 
  • nominations should be sent by the advisor via e-mail in pdf format to the CoMSEF Chair, Clare McCabe (c.mccabe@vanderbilt.edu), by October 1, 2009.
  • awards presented at the Annual Meeting in Nashville

Previous Winners:

  • 2008 - Rachel Getman (University of Notre Dame, Advisor: Bill Schneider) and Jeremy Purvis (University of Pennsylvania, Advisor: Scott Diamond)
  • 2007 - Chethan Acharya (University of Alabama, Advisor: C. Heath Turner) and Harish Vashisth (Drexel University, Advisor: Cameron Abrams)
  • 2006 - Megha Surve (University of Texas, Austin, Advisor: Venkat Ganesan) and Eric Santiso (North Carolina State University, Advisor: Keith Gubbins)