Welcome to the Broadbelt Research Group!

January 2012:

• The lab welcomes Venkat Reddy to the group.

December 2011:

• The lab welcomes Abraham Yanez-McKay and Kanika Mittal to the group.

November 2011:

• Congratulations to Di Wu on winning the top poster prize of the Sustainable Energy Forum of AIChE for his paper entitled "A Computational Approach to Design and Evaluate Reaction Pathways: Application to 1-Butanol Production from Pyruvate."
• The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation awarded a 110 Grand Challenges Explorations grant to a colloboration between the Broadbelt and Tyo labs which aims to significantly decrease the price of drugs that treat HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Read more here

September 2011:

• Congratulations to Di Wu on winning the Kemin Industries Travel Award to support his travel to attend the ACS National Meeting in San Diego in March.
• Congratulations to Matt Moura on receiving a Biotechnology Cluster fellowship for 2011-2012.

August 2011:

• Congratulations to Heather Mayes on receiving an ARCS Foundation Scholarship for 2011-2012.

July 2011:

• Congratulations to Dr. Ivan Konstantinov on successfully defending his PhD thesis.

June 2011:

• The lab welcomes Andrew Stine to the group.
• Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Ryan on successfully defending his PhD thesis.

May 2011:

• The lab welcomes Dr. Majeed Shaik to the group.

April 2011:

• Congratulations to Heather Mayes on receiving a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF).
• The lab welcomes Dr. Parag Deshpande to the group.

March 2011:

• The lab welcomes Matt Moura to the group.
• Congratulations to Dr. Lin Wang whose paper "Model-Based Design for Preparing Styrene/Methyl Methacrylate Structural Gradient Copolymers" had been chosen as the cover story for Macromolecular Theory and Simulations in March 2011.

January 2011:

• Congratulations to Eric Mondor who successfully defended his master thesis.

December 2010:

• The lab welcomes Renhu Ma and Heather Mayes to the group.
• Congratulations to Beatriz Peñalver Bernabé and Di Wu who have successfully defended their research proposals and become Ph.D. candidates.
• Congratulations to Lin Wang whose work was featured on materialviews.com titled as "A Clever Way to Reduce Calculation Times for Polymer Chain Sequences"