News

James Dean joins our lab as a PhD student and Zihao Yan joins our lab as a Masters student. Welcome guys!

Peter Tancini received 1st place in Computing and Process Control II and 1st place in the Computing and Simulation Technology Division for his undergraduate poster presentation at the AIChE 2016 National Meeting in San Francisco. Great work Peter!

Peter Tancini received the Pitt Departmental Research Day 2nd prize undergraduate poster award and Natalie Austin received the Pitt Departmental Research Day 1st prize Graduate Poster Award. Congratulations you two!

PhD candidate Natalie Austin received the Women of Color STEM Conference Student Leadership Academic Award. Great job Natalie!!

PhD Candidate Natalie Austin and undergraduate researcher Brandon Butina publish a new paper titled “CO2 Activation on Bimetallic CuNi Nanoparticles” in an invited article Themed Issue on Nanomaterials in the Progress in Natural Science: Materials International Journal. Congratulations Natalie and Brandon!!

PhD candidate Pavlo Kostetskyy received the AIChE Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Student Travel Award for the AIChE 2016 National Meeting in San Francisco. Congratulations Pavlo!!

PhD Candidate Michael Taylor publishes a new paper titled “Molecular modifiers reveal a mechanism of pathological crystal growth inhibition” in the journal Nature!!! This paper was highlighted in Pitt Engineering News and U.S. News!! Congratulations Michael!

PhD Candidate Pavlo Kostetskyy publishes a new paper titled “From Biomass-Derived Furans to Aromatics with Ethanol over Zeolite” in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition. This paper is featured in the journal cover of issue 42. Good job Pavlo!

GM and co-investigators Professor Gotz Veser from University of Pittsburgh and Assistant Professor Chrysanthos Gounaris from Carnegie Mellon University, were awarded a 3-year $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Collaborative Research: Design of Optimal Bimetallic Nanoparticles”!

GM receives a $110,000 Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for computational modeling research!