Johannes was awarded the 2018 President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring today. The Meyerson Award was established to recognize exceptional teaching and mentoring at UB, and it the highest university award given specifically for undergraduate mentoring. Only one member of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has received this award before and awards to junior faculty are very rare.
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Yearly Archives 2018
Workshop report released
Our NSF CHE Workshop Report titled “Framing the Role of Big Data and Modern Data Science in Chemistry” (publication #22) is now officially released and disseminated by the NSF. Congrats to Atif, Mojtaba, Johannes, and our co-authors at Vanderbilt and Iowa State!
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Latest paper is now online
Our latest paper (publication #19) titled “Combining First-Principles and Data Modeling for the Accurate Prediction of the Refractive Index of Organic Polymers” is now online at The Journal of Chemical Physics, and you can find it here. Congrats to Atif, Chong, and Johannes!
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Milestones, News, and Publications.
Johannes at the NAS CSR Workshop on Data Science: Opportunities to Transform Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Johannes is in Washington, DC, today and tomorrow for the National Academy of Sciences Chemical Sciences Roundtable Workshop on Data Science: Opportunities to Transform Chemical Sciences and Engineering. Great event on an exciting topic.
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UB CBE News item on Johannes’ NSF CAREER Award
The UB CBE News posted a news item on Johannes’ NSF CAREER Award, which is linked here.
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Awards, Milestones, and News.
Johannes wins 2018 NSF CAREER Award
Johannes was today awarded the 2018 NSF CAREER Award for his project titled CAREER: Building an Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for the Data-Driven Design of Chemical Systems and the Exploration of Chemical Space (Award #1751161). The award is made by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) within the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and funded at a level of $560k. The Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) is NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.
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Awards, Milestones, and News.
Johannes at the ESA NSF PI Workshop on Creating and Implementing Sustainability Plans for Data Repositories
Johannes is in Alexandria, VA, today and tomorrow for the ESA NSF PI Workshop on Creating and Implementing Sustainability Plans for Data Repositories. Very interesting topic and lots to discuss.
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Vigneshwar defends his MSc thesis, becomes 7th MSc/MEng of the group
Vigneshwar Kumaran Sudalayandi Rajeswari passed his thesis defense titled “First-Principles Modeling of Polymer Degradation Kinetics and Virtual High-Throughput Screening of Candidates for Biodegradable Polymers” today and is now the 3rd MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Vigneshwar, good job! Vigneshwar will stay on with the group for at least another few weeks to finish up some work and plan for his next adventures, so it’s not quite time yet to say goodbye.
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Graduation, Milestones, News, and Team.
Johannes at the Humboldt Kolleg on New Vistas in Molecular Thermodynamics
Johannes is in Berkeley, CA, for the next three days for the Humboldt Kolleg on New Vistas in Molecular Thermodynamics. He is going to give an invited talk today at the beginning of the Session on Fundamentals of Chemical Design and Engineering titled Machine Learning the Structure-Property Relationships that Define Chemistry. The Kolleg will also celebrate the 90th birthday of Professor John M. Prausnitz, one of the pioneers of Molecular Thermodynamics.
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