Andy Long passes his final defense with flying colors to become the first PhD graduate from the Ferguson Lab. Andy’s dissertation concerns the development and deployment of nonlinear manifold learning …
Prof. Ferguson was named on the Spring 2017 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students as the instructor of MSE 458 Polymer Physics.
Rachael’s paper Control of the hierarchical assembly of π-conjugated optoelectronic peptides by pH and flow made the front cover of the 14 July 2017 issue of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry …
Rachael has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the Christopher J. Wormald Prize in Thermodynamics. This award is associated with the Thermodynamics 2017 conference to be held 5-8 September …
Greg awarded a 50,000 node-hours Blue Waters exploratory allowance for his proposal “In Silico Hepatitis C Vaccine Design”. This high-performance computational resource will enable in silico screening of HCV immunogens …
Rachael’s was selected for a 2017-18 Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship. This award provides RA support, travel funds, and 50,000 node hours of computation on the Blue Waters supercomputer. Rachael will …
Prof. Ferguson was named on the Fall 2016 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, ranked as “Outstanding” (top 10%) as the instructor of MSE 404 Computational Materials …
Rachael’s paper “Coarse-grained molecular simulation of the hierarchical self-assembly of π-conjugated optoelectronic peptides” has been published in J. Phys. Chem. B (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b10165). This work supported by DOE/BES describes the development …
Prof. Ferguson was awarded a College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research that recognizes research achievements by Illinois engineering faculty over the past year. He will be recognized …
Prof. Ferguson delivered a talk “Finding folding funnels frae following FRET fluorescence” at the 3rd Annual Scottish Chemistry Symposium at Northwestern University. This symposium brings together Scottish chemists from the …