Ruijie Darius Teo, Department of Chemistry (David N. Beratan, advisor), Duke University. Unraveling functional hole hopping pathways in the [4Fe4S]-containing DNA primase
Diptarka Hait, Department of Chemistry (Martin Head-Gordon, advisor), University of California, Berkeley. Development of excited state quantum chemistry methods capable of describing photodissociation of single bonds
Jon Paul Janet, Department of Chemical Engineering (Heather Kulik, advisor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Multifidelity methods for the design of transition metal complexes
Kalli Kappel, Biophysics Program (Rhiju Das, advisor), Stanford University. Rapid RNA structure determination through cryo-EM, high-throughput biochemistry, and computational modeling
Jaehyeok Jin, Department of Chemistry (Gregory A. Voth, advisor), University of Chicago. High Fidelity Ultra-Coarse-Graining of Soft Matter Systems
Yu-ming Huang, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (J. Andrew McCammon, advisor), University of California San Diego. Brownian dynamic study of an enzyme metabolon in the TCA cycle: Substrate kinetics and channeling
Elvira Sayfutyarova, Department of Chemistry (Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, advisor), Yale University. Photochemistry of conjugated systems with “black-box” multireference methods
Alex Dickson, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michigan State University. Wepy: A Tool for Exploring Rough Free Energy Landscapes
Jianing Li, Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont. Hierarchical Simulation: Two Different Approaches and Their Applications to Design Complex Biomaterials
Revati Kumar, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University. Exploring graphene oxide-water interfaces: A computational investigation
Joel Yuen-Zhou, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego. Computational Modeling of Polariton Chemistry