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The CoMSEF Executive Committee is pleased to announce that Professor Ed Maginn of the University of Notre Dame has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural CoMSEF Early Career Award. This new annual award recognizes outstanding research in our field and was given to Ed at the start of session 113 - Recent Advances in Molecular Simulation Methods I - at 12:30 PM on Monday November 9 in room Tennessee C of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel during the Annual AIChE meeting.

Ed received his B. S. in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1987. He then worked for Procter and Gamble as an operations engineer for three years before entering the graduate program in Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 1995 under the direction of Doros Theodorou and Alex Bell. He joined the faculty of Notre Dame in 1995 and is presently Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Ed has over 90 refereed publications and two patents and is the recipient of the Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award from the American Society for Engineering Education as well as an CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. He has also received several teaching awards, including the BP Outstanding Teacher award for the Notre Dame College of Engineering, two John A. Kaneb Awards from the University of Notre Dame and the AIChE Student Chapter Outstanding Teaching Award.

Ed is receiving the CoMSEF Early Career Award for his development of molecular simulation algorithms to study fundamental thermodynamics and transport behavior and his specific contributions to the understanding of nanoporous materials and ionic liquids. CoMSEF Early Career Award recipients must be in the early stages of their professional careers (in academia, industry, or a national laboratory), defined as being within 15 years of completion of the highest degree and be current members of CoMSEF.

 

CoMSEF Chair Clare McCabe presents the Early Career Award to Ed Maginn:

 

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

The winners (center) of the 2009 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards and their advisors:

more info about the grad student awards: link

Congratulations to the 2007 CoMSEF Graduate Student Award winners:

Chethan Acharya, University of Alabama
Advisor: C. Heath Turner

Harish Vashisth, Drexel University
Advisor: Cameron Abrams

This was the second year that CoMSEF has made awards to recognize excellence in research by graduate students in the field of molecular science and engineering. The two awardees were selected based on a nomination letter and a poster presentation at the November AIChE meeting in Salt Lake City.

Previous Winners:

• 2006 - Megha Surve (University of Texas, Austin, Advisor: Venkat Ganesan) and Eric Santiso (North Carolina State University, Advisor: Keith Gubbins)

Two new CoMSEF Liaison Directors were recently elected and announced at the CoMSEF meeting in Salt Lake City:

• Ed Maginn, University of Notre Dame - homepage
• Brian Peterson, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. - bio

The role of liaison director includes the following responsibilities:

1. Be the main contacts with other organizations (groups,
   divisions, forums, and societies). Contact assignments shall be
   assigned by the Chair.
2. Coordinate programming with other organizations, under the leadership of the Vice Chair.
3. Communicate and advocate CoMSEF activities with other organizations.
4. As members of the Executive Committee, aid the officers in developing and carrying out planning.

 

The special issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C honoring Keith Gubbins is now available online: link

Note that the current CoMSEF newsletter includes a tribute to Prof. Gubbins written by Ken Cox and that Prof. Gubbins will be honoried at two sessions during the AIChE annual meeting in Salt Lake City:

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

8:30 AM-11:00 AM
#179 - Keith Gubbins 70th Birthday Celebration I (21001)

3:30 PM-6:00 PM
#302 - Keith Gubbins 70th Birthday Celebration II (21002)

The elections concluded in early November. Thanks to everyone who ran and who voted! As a result, the new members of the executive committee are:

Vice Chair and Program Chair: Clare McCabe, Vanderbilt
Secretary-Treasurer: Joe Golab, Innovene
Liaison Director: Perla Balbuena, Texas A&M
Liaison Director: Roland Faller, UC Davis

Thanks to previous officers whose terms have concluded.

Also, by appointment by the CoMSEF chair, two other new officers are:

Vice Chair for Communications: Jonathan Moore, Dow Chemical
Vice Chair for Membership: Dave Kofke, SUNY-Buffalo

A full listing of the current CoMSEF executive committee is available here.