News Archive

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Group Trip to Curtis Orchard
Group Trip to Curtis Orchard and pumpkin carving! Read More ›

Archana Verma wins Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award
Archana Verma wins a Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award to go to the 2025 AIChE Annual meeting in November. Read More ›

Jackson Group Canoe Trip 2025
The Jackson Group Canoe Trip 2025 at Sugar Valley Canoes! Read More ›

Sofia Sivilotti wins ACS Undergraduate Award
Former undergraduate researcher Sofia Sivilotti wins the Chemistry Department's ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry. Read More ›

Charlie Maier defends thesis and graduates
Charlie Maier defends his thesis and becomes the second Ph.D graduate of the Jackson group. Read More ›

Group volunteers for outreach at St. Elmo Brady Academy
The group volunteers for outreach with 3rd graders at the St. Elmo Brady Academy to learn about temperature with homemade thermometers! Read More ›

Archana receives GIANT Student Leadership Award
Archana is part of a team which received a Grassroots Initiatives to Address Needs Together (GIANT) Student Leadership Award. Read More ›

Eliza and Anna win prestigious fellowships
Eliza Asani wins a DOE Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship, and Anna DeBernardo wins the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program Award. Read More ›

David Friday defends thesis and graduates
David Friday defends his thesis and becomes the first Ph.D graduate of the Jackson group. Read More ›

Viviana Palacio Betancur wins Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Viviana Palacio Betancur wins a prestigious Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Read More ›

Viviana Palacio Betancur joins as postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Viviana Palacio Betancur joins us as a postdoctoral researcher from the Ph.D program in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Read More ›

Zylle Constantino joins as undergraduate researcher
Zylle Constantino joins the group as an undergraduate researcher! Read More ›

Group corn maze at Hardy's Reindeer Ranch
Group corn maze at Hardy's Reindeer Ranch followed by a visit to Riggs! Read More ›

New graduate students and undergraduate researcher join
Eliza Asani, Jingdan Chen, and Matthew Too join as Chemistry Ph.D students, and Isaac Christensen joins as an undergraduate researcher. Read More ›

Archana wins 1st prize at ChBE Graduate Student Symposium
Archana's talk at the ChBE Graduate Student Symposium wins 1st prize! Read More ›

Archana receives GEICS Leadership Award
Archana speaks on a panel at GEICS conference and receives the GEICS Leadership Award from SCS! Read More ›

Chun-I Wang and Zheng Yu leave for new positions
Chun-I Wang leaves for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position at CUNY Lehman College, and Zheng Yu leaves for a prestigious CSI Postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. Read More ›

Group Canoe Trip 2024
Group Canoe Trip! Read More ›

Group travels to Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics conference
The group travels to the Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics conference at the University of Michigan! Read More ›

Vishnu Raghuraman and Katie Kidder join as postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Vishnu Raghuraman and Dr. Katie Kidder join the group as postdoctoral researchers. Read More ›

Anna wins Dr. Sandra Murawski Award for Teaching Excellence
Anna wins the Dr. Sandra Murawski Award for Teaching Excellence. Read More ›

Archana and Shruti participate in outreach with SEBA
Archana and Shruti participate in outreach with SEBA! Read More ›

Aidan awarded prestigious Astronaut Scholarship
Aidan is awarded the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship! Read More ›

Jason wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award
Jason wins a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award. Read More ›

Group members win Ashby Prize in Computational Science
Seonghwan, Shruti, Jason, and Zheng take home the Ashby Prize in Computational Science, sponsored by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA! Read More ›

Archana presents research at APS
Archana presents her research at APS! Read More ›

Anna, Huihang, and Jason join as Chemistry Ph.D students
Anna DeBernardo, Huihang Qiu, and Jason Wu join the group as Chemistry Ph.D students. Read More ›

David wins Thro R. Rubin Fellowship
David wins the department's Thro R. Rubin Fellowship! Read More ›

Seonghwan wins Big Data Award at ACS
Seonghwan wins the Big Data Award for his presentation at ACS in the Division of Polymer Chemistry. Read More ›

Group goes to MTSM at University of Notre Dame
The group goes to MTSM at the University of Notre Dame! Read More ›

Archana gives invited talk at ACS CERM
Archana gives an invited talk at ACS CERM! Read More ›

Andrew Qin heads to Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Andrew Qin heads to the Ph.D program at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Read More ›

Aidan and Sofia join as undergraduate researchers
Aidan Lindsay and Sofia Sivilotti join the group as undergraduate researchers funded by the prestigious Remec and Morisato Scholarship in Chemical Data Science! Read More ›

Andriy Bilobokky joins as undergraduate researcher
Andriy Bilobokky joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Read More ›

Shruti Iyer joins as Chemistry Ph.D student
Shruti Iyer joins the group as a Chemistry Ph.D student! Read More ›

David wins Dr. Harold R. Snyder Fellowship
David wins the department's Dr. Harold R. Snyder Fellowship! Read More ›

Zheng Yu joins as postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Zheng Yu joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher from the MSE Ph.D Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Read More ›

Group Canoe Trip 2022
Group Canoe Trip! Read More ›

Group travels to MTSM Conference at Purdue
The group travels to the Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference at Purdue University. Read More ›

Seonghwan wins third place in Ashby Prize
Seonghwan is part of a team that wins third place in the Ashby Prize for Computational Science competition. Read More ›

Seonghwan wins 1st prize in AI and Innovate Computing Challenge
Seonghwan is part of a team that receives 1st prize in the AI and Innovate Computing for Molecular Dynamics Challenge. Read More ›

Andrew Qin joins as undergraduate researcher
Andrew Qin joins the group as an undergraduate researcher! Read More ›

Group trip to Curtis Orchard 2021
Group trip to Curtis Orchard! Read More ›

First graduate students join the Jackson Lab
Seonghwan Kim, Phillip Sin, and Archana Verma join the group as Ph.D students. Read More ›

David wins Minn Fellowship
David wins the department's Minn Fellowship! Read More ›

Archana awarded multiple prestigious fellowships
Archana is awarded an Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, NSF GRFP, and Parr Fellowship for starting her career at UIUC! Read More ›

Chun-I Wang joins as postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Chun-I Wang joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher from the Academia Sinica. Read More ›

First group Canoe Trip
The first group Canoe Trip! Read More ›

David wins SCS Graduate Teaching Award
David wins the SCS Graduate Teaching Award! Read More ›

First Ph.D students join the Jackson Lab
Charlie Maier and David Friday join the group as the first two Ph.D students! Read More ›