Bridgette Lafaye (MatSE, freshman) joins the Ferguson Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Bridgette will be employing coarse-grained molecular dynamics to simulate the self-assembly of ultrashort amphiphilic peptides into mesoscale aggregates …
Haotian was selected to perform a summer research internship in the Ferguson Lab as part of the competitive NCSA SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation) Program. Haotian will work with Prof. Ferguson …
Prof. Ferguson is one of four AIChE nominees for the DiscoverE (formerly National Engineers Week Foundation) 2015 “New Faces of Engineering” award. This award recognizes the outstanding talents, skills and …
Deepak Mani (MatSE, sophomore) joins the Ferguson Lab as an undergraduate researcher. Deepak will be using all-atom molecular dynamics simulations to study the stability, morphology, and pH response of engineered …
Prof. Ferguson wins travel award to attend the IPAM workshop on Machine Learning for Many-Particle Systems at UCLA 23-27 Feb 2015 (http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/machine-learning-for-many-particle-systems/). This workshop will address the reaches and limitations …
Andy Long wins the Outstanding Student Presenter Award for Symposium SS (Informatics and Genomics for Materials Development) at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting for his talk “Accelerated Sampling of Self-Assembly Systems …
Rachael wins the APS Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA) Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research (http://www.aps.org/units/fgsa/activities/travelgrants.cfm)! This award recognizes graduate students who demonstrate great potential and have made …
Greg, Jiang, and Rachael have all had abstracts accepted to deliver oral presentations at the 2015 APS March Meeting in San Antonio, TX. Greg will discuss his work on the …
Andy Long and teammate Ioan Magdau (University of Edinburgh) placed third in the Materials Hackathon (MatHack) at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting, creating in 24h a working code for materials …
Prof. Ferguson will deliver a talk “Computational Design of Hepatitis C Vaccines” in the Multiscale Systems Biology session (3:15-5:30 pm, Mon 11/17, 214 Hilton Atlanta) at the AIChE Annual Meeting. …