News

(Past Five Years)

2023

  • Matthew Curry and Dakota Landrie present talks at SERMACS.

  • 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 Gordon Research Seminar on “Dynamics at Surfaces”.

  • 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 Award at SETCA.

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

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

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

  • 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 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.

2020

  • Kristopher Reynolds wins the Goldwater Scholarship.

2019

  • Robert Chapleski presents a poster at the Penn Conference in Theoretical Chemistry.

  • Robert Chapleski presents a poster at the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on “Dynamics at Surfaces”.

  • Robert Chapleski, Carson Mize, and K. Reid Mason present posters at SETCA.

  • Our department’s theory division hosts SETCA at UTK.

  • Sara Isbill successfully defends her doctoral thesis titled, “Structural modifications and their effects on the catalytic behavior of metal surfaces and organometallic complexes: Theoretical studies of oxygen adsorption on silver surfaces and aziridination catalysis by iron-tetracarbene complexes”.

  • Trell Stroud successfully defends his Honors undergraduate thesis titled, “Computational investigation of the reaction pathway of a novel tetracarbene iron catalyst”.

  • Trell Stroud wins an Award of Excellence for his poster presentation at UTK EURECA.

  • K. Reid Mason and Trell Stroud present posters at UTK EURECA.