Sparrow wins Bauer Scholarship Award for AY 2020-2021
May 2021
The Bauer Scholarship Award is given to graduate students (going into their final year of study at Cornell) who have demonstrated scientific and educational excellence as well as communication skills. This award provides them with the opportunity to give a research presentation at their alma mater, covering travel expenses, a two-day hotel stay, and a per diem for a trip that has to be made before the end of May the following year. The format for the research presentation will be determined by the host institution and can range from a group meeting to a departmental talk.
Sparrow wins Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for AY 2020-2021
April 9, 2021
The Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize was established by the parents of Howard Wachter, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology. This prize is normally awarded to our best 3rd year graduate students in Physical Chemistry (broadly defined), taking into consideration the quality of the prospective awardee's work and potential contribution to the profession. To reflect Howard Wachter's own interests as a graduate student, special consideration will be given to students interested in Theory.
Jalen Harris awarded a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Energy
April 5, 2021
The Department of Materials Science would like to congratulate Jalen Harris for recently being awarded a Computational Science Fellowship from the Department of Energy. These are highly prestigious fellowships and are only awarded to a small number of graduate students each year. Jalen is co-advised by Nicole Benedek (MSE) and Robert DiStasio (Chemistry).
DiStasio wins ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Fall 2020
The ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award program provides $1,000 to up to four outstanding tenure-track junior faculty members to present their work in COMP division at the Fall 2020 Virtual ACS National Meeting. The Awards are designed to assist new faculty members in gaining visibility within the COMP community.
Ernst wins Bauer Scholarship Award for AY 2019-2020
May 2020
The Bauer Scholarship Award is given to graduate students (going into their final year of study at Cornell) who have demonstrated scientific and educational excellence as well as communication skills. This award provides them with the opportunity to give a research presentation at their alma mater, covering travel expenses, a two-day hotel stay, and a per diem for a trip that has to be made before the end of May the following year. The format for the research presentation will be determined by the host institution and can range from a group meeting to a departmental talk.
Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships
Cornell Chronicle, February 12, 2020
Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics. They are among the 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who received two-year, $75,000 fellowships to advance their work. “A Sloan research fellow is someone whose drive, creativity and insight makes them a researcher to watch,” said Adam F. Falk, president of the Sloan Foundation.
DiStasio Receives NSF CAREER Award
Cornell University, The Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, January 17, 2020
Assistant Professor Robert A. DiStasio Jr. has received a five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry for a proposal entitled "CAREER: Accurate, Reliable, and Routine First-Principles Prediction of the Structure and Stability of Molecular Crystal Polymorphs."
Nine assistant professors win NSF early career awards
Cornell Chronicle, January 16, 2020
Researchers studying the ethical implications of artificial intelligence algorithms, the development of new tools to analyze brain images and the role of fluids in triggering earthquakes are among the nine Cornell faculty members who have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
Ernst, Sparrow win Covestro Teaching Award for AY 2018-2019
May 2019
The Covestro Teaching Award is given to graduate students who are recognized as outstanding Teaching Assistants (TAs) in our undergraduate classes.
Yang wins Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for AY 2018-2019
April 2019
The Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize was established by the parents of Howard Wachter, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology. This prize is normally awarded to our best 3rd year graduate students in Physical Chemistry (broadly defined), taking into consideration the quality of the prospective awardee's work and potential contribution to the profession. To reflect Howard Wachter's own interests as a graduate student, special consideration will be given to students interested in Theory.
Pore size influences nature of complex nanostructures
Cornell Chronicle, January 14, 2019
The strength of the attraction between molecules in two-dimensional materials, known as van der Waals forces, is dependent on the size of the empty spaces in the material, researchers have found.
$10.75M grant aids next-gen fuel cell development
Cornell Chronicle, July 18, 2018
Chemistry professor Héctor Abruña will lead a Department of Energy-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Center at Cornell, aimed at developing next-generation, alkaline-based fuel cells.
Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together
Cornell Chronicle, March 8, 2018
The wave-like behavior observed in electron cloud fluctuations challenges the widely held belief that van der Waals interactions, ubiquitous in the natural world, are particle-like in nature.
'Sticky waves': Molecular interactions at the nanoscale
Cornell Chronicle, March 10, 2016
Research from Cornell and the University of Chicago has revealed a technique to “sew” two patches of crystals seamlessly together to create atomically thin fabrics.
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