Rachael was selected by the College of Engineering as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow (MF3) for 2015-16. This highly competitive program is designed to prepare PhD candidates for academic careers, …
Prof. Ferguson was named as a 2015-16 Faculty Fellow of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. This fellowship will support Prof. Ferguson’s research into in silico hepatitis C vaccine design, …
By developing a sophistication of the diffusion map nonlinear manifold learning approach, Rachael and Prof. Ferguson have quantitatively connected the molecular chemistry and experimental conditions to microscopic molecular behavior. In …
The lectures for Prof. Ferguson’s new course MSE 498AF – Computational Materials Science and Engineering have been uploaded to YouTube and nanoHUB to allow for wide dissemination and access to …
Greg and Prof. Ferguson have provided the first computational confirmation of the viral “error catastrophe” over a realistic viral fitness landscape in a paper published in Phys. Rev. E (http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.032705). …
Prof. Ferguson was named on the Fall 2014 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students as the instructor of MSE 498AF – Computational Materials Science and Engineering.
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 …