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The June 2023 CoMSEF newsletter has been published: LINK
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The CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering were awarded to participants in the CoMSEF poster session at the AIChE Annual Meeting: Aditya Nandy (MIT, Advisor: Heather Kulik) and Mike Jones (U. Chicago, Advisor: Andy Ferguson). The CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards recognize excellence in research by graduate students in the field of computational molecular science and engineering. The awardees were selected based on the nomination letters received from each student’s advisor, their CV, and a poster presented during the CoMSEF poster session.
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Professor Antonia Statt from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the 2022 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. She is cited “for the development and application of innovative computational method and models to understand polymer thin films, colloid-polymer systems, and disordered proteins.” Statt joined the faculty at Illinois in 2019.
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Professor Jim Pfaendtner from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington is the winner of the 2022 CoMSEF Impact Award. He is cited “for contributions to methods and applications in the field of molecular simulation of interfacial phenomena of biomolecules.” Before joining the faculty at Washington, Jim completed his B.S. in chemical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and obtained a Ph.D.
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Professor Reid C. Van Lehn from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University Wisconsin-Madison is the 2021 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award.
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Professor Arthi Jayaraman from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Delaware is the winner of the 2021 CoMSEF Impact Award.
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Professor Michael R. Shirts from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder is the winner of the 2020 CoMSEF Impact Award. He is cited “for increasing the utility, power, and reliability of molecular simulation as a chemical engineering tool through development and improvement of statistical mechanics methods and programs.” Prior to joining the faculty at Colorado in 2016, Michael was a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia.
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Professor Andrew D. White from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester is the 2020 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. He is cited “for excellence in scholarly research in computational molecular science and engineering on the topics of multiscale modeling, molecular simulation methods and modeling of peptides.” Andrew joined the faculty at Rochester in 2015. Before that he worked with Professor Greg Voth at University of Chicago as a Post-doctoral fellow in the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics from 2013-2014.
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The annual CoMSEF election recently concluded. Congrats to Jeetain Mittal who was elected Vice Chair, Joe Golab who was elected Secretary-Treasurer, and to Kayla Sprenger and Poornima Padmanabhan who were elected Liaison Directors!
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The CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering were awarded to participants in the CoMSEF poster session at the virtual annual AIChE Meeting: Sarah Alamdari (Washington, Advisor: Jim Pfaendtner) and Ryther Anderson (Colorado School of Mines, Advisor: Diego Gomez-Gualdron). This year the forum also named two Honorable Mentions: Andrew S. Rosen (Northwestern, Advisor: Randall Q. Snurr) and Karun Kumar Rao (Houston, Advisor: Lars Grabow).
