Konrad Sebastian Gomez-Haibach and Maria Alexandra Gomez, “Revised Centrality Measures Tell a Robust Story of Ion Conduction in Solids,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c03886
New NSF grant
This addition to the MERCURY consortium cluster allows the consortium to expand by 13 additional research groups. You can see more about the full membership of 47 research groups at Members – MERCURY Consortium.
Congratulations to Yiqing Pan, Minh Tam Hoang, and Sanaa Mansoor on their recent article.
Pan, Y.; Hoang, M.T.; Mansoor, S.; Gomez, M.A. Exploring Proton Pair Motion Away from the Global Proton–Tuple Energy Minimum in Yttrium-Doped Barium Zirconate. Inorganics 2023, 11, 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics11040160
Cell Reports Voices
Conducting research at primarily undergraduate institutions Nicholas D Ball, Maria A Gomez, Brian P Rempel, Elaine R Farkas, Tori E Makal, George C Shields, Carol A Parish, Blakely W Tresca, Elizabeth G McGinitie, Cell Reports Physical Science 4, 101255, February 15, 2023
2023 ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Maria A. Gomez, Mount Holyoke College
National Awards – American Chemical Society (acs.org)
New Article: “The Impacts of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry on the Careers of Women in Computational Chemistry”
Kelly Anderson, Sarah Arradondo, K. Aurelia Ball, Chrystal Bruce, Maria A. Gomez, Kedan He, Heidi Hendrickson, Lindsey Madison, Ashley Ringer McDonald, Maria C. Nagan, Caitlin E. Scott, Patricia Soto, Aime’e Tomlinson, Mychel Varner, and Carol Parish, “The Impacts of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry on the Careers of Women in Computational Chemistry ,” Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00566
Students present their work at MERCURY 2022
Shirui Li, April Pan, Yujin Wang, and Konrad Gomez-Haibach present their work at the 2022 MERCURY meeting.
From left to right: Maria A Gomez, Konrad Gomez-Haibach, Mai-Anh Ha (group alumna currently at NREL and speaker), April Pan, Shirui Li, Yujing Wang
Research group alumni continue to innovate
Alumni at National Laboratories
Mai-Anh Ha, PhD, BA MHC ’13 investigates catalysis through electronic structure studies on a variety of technologically relevant materials at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Saryu Fensin, PhD, BA MHC ’06 has a research group in materials science and shock physics at Los Alamos National labs. Her innovative work has gotten many accolades.
Paul Grabowski, PhD, BA Vassar ’03 investigates high energy density phenomena using density functional theory and other computational tools at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Demian Riccardi, PhD, BA Vassar ’00 specializes in multi-scale modeling of a variety of condensed phases in the Thermodynamics Research Center at the National Institute of Standards.
Valentino R. Cooper, PhD, BA Vassar ’00 leads a dynamic group at Oakridge National Laboratories focused on driving materials innovation through theory and computation. Valentino is head of the Materials Theory, Modeling and Simulations section of the Materials Science and Technology Division.
Alumni in Academia
Caitlin Scott, PhD, MHC ’07 is an assistant professor at Hendrix College leading her own team of undergraduate in computational biochemistry research.
Deana M. Jaber, PhD, MHC ’05 is an associate professor at Marymount University. Deana develops new teaching tools for organic chemistry.
Innovating in other exciting areas
Laura E. Fernandez, PhD, BA MHC’08 is a senior managing editor at the American Chemical Society. Her portfolio includes: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Applied Bio Materials (launched in 2018), ACS Applied Electronic Materials (launched in 2019), ACS Applied Energy Materials (launched in 2018), ACS Applied Nano Materials (launched in 2018), ACS Applied Polymer Materials (launched in 2019)
In the next post, we’ll look at other alumni stories….