News (2021 - 2025)

2025

2024

• Matthew Curry successfully defends his doctoral thesis titled, “Understanding electron transport in single-molecule junctions using
  density functional theory and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations”.

• Dakota Landrie presents a poster at the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on “Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions”.

• Dakota Landrie presents a poster at SETCA.
  

• Dakota Landrie wins the Dr. Robert A. & Phyllis F.J. Yokley Endowed Fellowship.
  

• Dakota Landrie successfully defends his candidacy research proposal.

• Bright Daniel and Nick Arnold join the group.

2023

• Matthew Curry and Dakota Landrie present talks at SERMACS.

• Shelby Belt joins the group.

• Carson Mize successfully defends his doctoral thesis titled, “Theoretical studies of adsorption and reactivity at the gas-solid interface”.

• Carson Mize presents a talk at the “Dynamics at Surfaces” Gordon Research Seminar.

• Adam Wunschel presents a poster at the annual conference of the MERCURY consortium.

• Dakota Landrie participates in the Telluride School of Theoretical Chemistry.

• Adam Wunschel wins the Best Undergraduate Poster at SETCA.

• Carson Mize, Matthew Curry, Dakota Landrie, and Adam Wunschel present posters at SETCA.

• Graci Sexton and Adam Wunschel present posters at the UTK Chemistry Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• Graci Sexton and Adam Wunschel present posters at the UTK EURECA event.

• Matthew Curry presents a talk at the Spring ACS meeting.

• Matthew Curry wins a Graduate Student Senate Travel Award.

2022

• Carson Mize is selected as a Graduate Student Presentation Finalist in the Focus Topic on Heterogeneous Catalysis at the AVS International Symposium and Exposition.

• Carson Mize wins a Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Travel Grant.

• Carson Mize wins a Graduate Student Senate Travel Award.

• Matthew Curry presents a poster at the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on “Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions”.

• Carson Mize presents a poster at the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on “Molecular Interactions and Dynamics”.

• Matthew Curry’s AIMD program is available on GitHub.

• Carson Mize, Matthew Curry, and Dakota Landrie present posters at SETCA.
  

• Elizabeth Lander successfully defends their Honors undergraduate thesis titled, “Insight into subsurface adsorption using a lattice-gas model and Monte Carlo simulations”.
  

• Dakota Landrie presents a poster at the UTK Chemistry Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  

• Elizabeth Lander presents a talk at the UTK Chemistry Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  

2021

• Elizabeth Lander wins the Gold Honorable Mention Award for their poster presentation at the AVS International Symposium and Exposition.
  

• Carson Mize presents a talk at the AVS International Symposium and Exposition.

• Carson Mize presents a poster at the UTK Chemistry Board of Visitors Meeting.

• Noah Osman is selected for the 2021 Summer NSF-REU Program in Theoretical Chemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Kristopher Reynolds presents a poster at the Spring ACS meeting.
  

• Matthew Curry successfully defends his candidacy research proposal.