He received a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) for a total amount of $1,200,000 with a subaward of $320,000 for his project entitled "Accelerated Selection of Optimal Perovskite Alloys for Solar PV Using a Combined Quantum and Machine Learning Hierarchical Approach"
He received a grant from the South Carolina EPSCoR Grants for Exploratory Academic Research (GEAR) Program in the amount of $59,938 for his project entitled "Data Driven Optimization of the Electrolyte Composition for Improving Cycling Stability in Rechargeable Li-biased Batteries
She received a grant from the South Carolina EPSCoR GEAR of $60,000 for her project entitled "Well-Defined Stimuli-Responsive Materials with Dynamically-Controlled Optoelectronic Behavior: Experimentally-Supported Modeling"
She received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NFS) for a total amount of $458,902 for her project entitled "Synthesis of Hierarchical Materials with a Tunable Photoisomerization Response"
Congratulations to the students who had their research grants funded
Dr. Wayne Outten & Dr. Chuanbing Tang have been elected fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Outten was honored for distinguished research contributions deciphering the mechanisms for iron sulfur cluster biogenesis, its regulation, and its roles in microbial physiology and stress responses. Dr. Tang's election was for distinguished contributions to the field of polymer chemistry, particularly for sustainable polymers and charged metallopolymers.
Congratulations to Brian Benicewicz who was awarded a grant from BASF New Business GmbH for a total of $111,225 for his project entitled "Evaluation of a New Process for a Durable Proton Conducting PBI Membrane."
Congratulations to Dr. Bencicewicz who was awarded a new grant from the Department of Energy
Dr. Hanno zur Loye, University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has been appointed to a joint appointment position at Savannah River National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Prof. Hanno zur Loye for Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) award
Dr. Wayne Outten and his collaborators have been awarded an NIH grant.
Mark Berg has received a grant from the National Science Foundation
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Vogt who was a part of an international team that published a Science Advances research article.
Thomas Vogt and co-Pi Douglas Blom (Chem. E.) and Peter Binev (Math) received a US Army grant "Order in Atom Columns-Imaging Beyond the Virtual Crystal Approximation"
Congratulations to Susan Richardson who was recently invited to do a podcast in the Genius Podcast series.
For her research in iron metabolism, Outten was recently elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
His proposal has been selected to receive the DOE ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge award.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 SC Environmental Conference Student Poster Awards
Congratulations to the undergraduate students that received Magellan Scholar Program grants.
Big data and synthetic chemistry joined forces to show a better way to create materials that filter greenhouse gases
Congratulations to James Sitter for being awarded the NDSEG Fellowship from the DoD
Ken Shimizu received a grant from the National Science Foundation
Sophya Garashchuk received a grant from the National Science Foundation
Aaron Vannuci has received an award from the National Science Foundation
Congratulations to the recipients of awards for $60,000