Group News
- Jorge graduated with his PhD over the summer and is now a postdoc at the Australian National University
- Bryce graduated with his PhD and is now a Postdoc with me
- Yulim graduated with her PHD and is now postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory
- Shinae graduated with her PhD and is now a postdoc at Sandia National Laboratory
- George passed his prelim and is now a doctoral candidate
- Melisa was awarded a very competitive ISU Green Fellowship
- Peng was promoted to Ames Lab Scientist 2
- Peng has become an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department
- Peng and Tosaporn have an Ames Lab LDRD grant
- Peng is the lead PI on a DOE INCITE grant
- Nuwan DeSiliva received tenure at Western New England University
- Spencer Pruitt is now the head of IT at the Harvard Medical School
- Ryan Olson was named an NVIDIA Fellow at NVIDIA Corp.
- Melisa was named the 2022 Chemistry Department Ruedenberg Awardee
- Peng and Tosaporn just presented a poster to the Director of the DOE Office of Science
- Megan Schlinsog has successfully defended her preliminary examination! Call her PhD candidate now. Congratulations Megan!
Recent awards:
• Peng was awarded the Dell-Intel Young Investigator award at the Sanibel Symposium. Congratulations!!
• Joani was awarded IBM-Zerner Graduate Student Award at the Sanibel Symposium. Congratulations!!

• Joani was awarded the Edward V. Sayre Chemistry Scholarship from the Department of Chemistry
• Buu was awarded the Klaus Ruedenberg Theoretical Chemistry Award from the Department of Chemistry
• Kris was awarded the ISU Research Excellence Award!
• Joani and Buu attended the 253rd ACS National Conference.


• Kris was a featured speaker at the DOE Booth at SuperComputing 2015.