News

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!

Undergraduate researcher Peter Tancini receives the Swanson School of Engineering (SSOE) Summer Internship Award to go to Italy and work on a computational project with Professor Matteo Maestri. Congratulations Peter!!

PhD Candidate Michael Taylor receives the prestigious NSF Fellowship! Congratulations Michael!!

Macy Divens joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome Macy!

Work from our phenomenal undergraduate students Peter Tancini (class 2017) and Bob Shobayo (REU student from UMBC in summer 2014) is published in JACS, in collaboration with the lab of Prof. Jill Millstone (Chemistry, Pitt)!! Congratulations Peter and Bob!! View the article

Xi Peng joins our lab as a PhD student! Welcome Xi!