Undergraduates Jeff Carr, Bronson Lockwood, and Blaec Toncini start working in the group to methodically unravel how molecular co-catalysts can promote hydride transfers for renewable energy. Welcome!
Undergraduate Roy Amruthur started working in the group (co-advised with Prof. Geoff Hutchison in the chemistry department) to benchmark Genetic Algorithms for locating global minima. Welcome!
Graduate students Mitchell Groenenboom and Yaqun Zhu joined the group as inaugural group members! They are getting a crash-course in how to model, well, just about everything. Welcome!
JAK represented PITT CHE and the Center for Energy while recruiting students in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC in Baltimore, MD.
JAK's first paper as a corresponding author at PITT accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
JAK co-chaired the DFT+X II session at the 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
JAK gave an oral presentation at the 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
JAK represented PITT CHE and the Center for Energy while recruiting students at the 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
JAK gave a workshop for PITT CHE students on making high quality presentations and images.
JAK gave an invited oral presentation at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis in Pasadena, CA.
JAK gave a writing workshop for PITT CHE students.
JAK appointed Director of Graduate Recruiting for the PITT CHE department.
JAK gave an invited oral presentation at the 246th ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
Official start-date at PITT.
JAK gave an invited oral presentation at the 12th ICCDU meeting in Alexandria, VA.
Inside Higher Ed magazine named JAK as a Mover and Shaker.
JAK joined the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh (PITT)! More press: SSoE press release, Wesleyan Alumni Mag