2018 NEWS Archive

November 2018: Prof. Shukla received the NSF Early Career Award from the Division of Molecular & Cellular Biosciences at National Science Foundation! Read the news here.

October 2018: Jiangyan Feng won the first prize in the ChBE graduate student research symposium. Congratulations Jiangyan!

October 2018: Chuankai Zhao received the Hanratty travel award from Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department to attend ACS Fall meeting. Congratulations Chuankai!

November 2018: Shriyaa Mittal received the graduate student travel award from the Biophysical Society to attend their 2019 annual meeting at Baltimore. Congratulations Shriyaa!

October 2018: Shriyaa Mittal passed the Biophysics Preliminary Exam with flying colors. Congratulations Shriyaa!

August 2018: Matthew Chan and Jiming Chen passed the ChBE oral qualifying exam. Congratulations Matt and Jiming!

July 2018: Chuankai Zhao passed the ChBE preliminary examination with flying colors. Congratulations Chuankai!

May 2018: Prof. Shukla received the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry from the ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Read the full news here.

May 2018: Jiming Chen was selected to receive the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training fellowship. Congratulations Jiming!

April 2018: Kevin Cheng received the NSF graduate fellowship to work on understanding mechanism of sugar transport in plants. Congratulations Kevin!

April  2018: Qihua Chen won the best presentation award at the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium. Way to go!

March 2018: Our recent paper on G-Protein Coupled Receptors now features on the cover of Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Check out the cover here.

March 2018: Shriyaa Mittal, CSE Fellow 2017-18 presented her research work in the CSE seminar series. Check out the video here !

February 2018: Check out our recent paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition on “Universality of the Sodium Ion Binding Mechanism in Class A G‐Protein‐Coupled Receptors“. Congratulations Balaji and Zahra!

January 2018: Check out our paper in The Journal of Physical Chemistry by Jiangyan Feng on “Characterizing Conformational Dynamics of Proteins Using Evolutionary Couplings.”