The Fall 2008 Winners
The review committee has considered all CCG Excellence Award applications, and is pleased to announce the 5 award winners for the 2008 ACS Fall meeting in Philadelphia are:
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Satyender Goel, University of Central Florida Pairwise spin-contamination correction and application to 3-D transition metal hydrides from BS-DFT
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Lucius E. Johnson, University of Louisville Mechanism of electronic stabilization of cyclopropenylidene byamino-substitution
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In Suk Joung, University of Utah Determination of alkali and halide monovalent ion parameters for use in explicitly solvated biomolecular simulations
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Laveena Muley, University at Buffalo Binding affinity awarded for hydrophobic bonding in scoring functions needs to be context dependent
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Somisetti V Sambasivarao, Auburn University Systematic development of OPLS-AA force field parameters for ionic liquid simulations
Chemical Computing Group
Graduate Student Excellence Award
The CCG Excellence Awards were established in 2000 to stimulate graduate student participation in COMP Division symposia and poster sessions at ACS National Meetings. Awardees are chosen on the basis of the quality and significance of the research to be presented and the strength of the supporting materials. These students receive a one-year software license of CCG’s MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) for their academic research groups, as well as $1,150 . Each awardee presents a poster at the Division’s Tuesday evening poster session, and they are recognized at that event.
Application for these awards is a two-step process. First, one must submit an abstract through the ACS OASYS system for online paper submissions. Secondly, an application for the award must be submitted. Deadlines for these two steps are different, to allow graduate students time to compile the additional paperwork needed to complete the application. The application consists of an extended (2-page) abstract of the poster or presentation along with a letter of support from the research advisor, a two page CV, and a personal statement. The awardees are chosen on the basis of the quality and significance of the research to be presented, as well as the strength of the supporting letter and other materials. All gradute students of the Americas are encouraged to submit applications. Awards will be given only to those individuals making presentations, not co-authors.
For more information and current deadlines, see the details and history page.