Research, milestones, and activities from the Hratchian Group.
Cristian, Andrew, and Brianna presented at the 2024 Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The meeting was held in New Orleans. Cristian presented a talk; Andrew and Brianna presented…
Conferences
Read more →Hrant served as a Guest Editor with Nick Mayhall (Virginia Tech) and Amir Karton (University of New England) for a Festshrift in Journal of Physical Chemistry A honoring Professor Krishnan…
Publications
Read more →Brianna presented a talk titled "Density Functional Theory in Chemical Physics: Orbital-dependent Density Functionals, Hybrids and Self-interaction Correction" at the American Physical Society's…
Conferences
Read more →Andrew, Abby, and Hrant attended the 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Ionic Clusters, which was held in Ventura, CA. Abby and Andrew presented posters. Hrant was invited to be the…
Conferences
Read more →Abigail and Brianna volunteered at a Mother-Daughter Science Camp at UC Merced. The camp was sponsored by the Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines. The camp is a science, technology,…
Outreach
Read more →Congrats to Dr. Abdul Zamani, who walked at the December commencement and was hooded by Hrant!
Milestones · Alumni · Graduation
Read more →Abigail, Andrew, and Hrant joined a team of UC Merced faculty and students at Chenoweth Elementary School as science fair judges. The team selected the top posters that will represent Chenoweth…
Outreach
Read more →Abdul defended his dissertation and earned his Ph.D. today! Abdul is the lab's 5th Ph.D. alum. Congratulations, Dr. Zamani!
Milestones · Alumni
Read more →Congrats to Abigail for passing her qualifying exam today!
Milestones
Read more →The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to a team lead by Hrant to develop a full proposal for the next round of Partnerships for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) program.…
Grants
Read more →The Department of Energy has awarded a $637,500 grant to Aurora Pribram-Jones and Hrant to support a collaborative research program with Frank Graziani at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
Grants
Read more →The Department of Energy has awarded a $1.3 million grant ($443,709 to our lab) supporting collaborative research between our group, Lee Thompson's group at the University of Louisville, and…
Grants
Read more →Doctoral student Christian Dwyer has joined the group! Christian joins UC Merced from Fresno State, where he earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in chemistry.
New Members
Read more →Congrats to Emma Brass, who walked at the December Commencement and earned her Bachelor's degree! Emma is heading to Brookhaven National Laboratory as a SULI Fellow and will begin as a chemistry…
Milestones · Alumni · Graduation
Read more →Congrats to Madison Martin, who walked and earned her Master's degree at UC Merced's December Commencement!
Milestones · Alumni · Graduation
Read more →Doctoral student Brianna Aguilar has officially joined the group! Brianna earned an Associates degree at Bakersfield College and a Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley. Brianna will be co-advised by…
New Members
Read more →Hrant has been appointed Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division. As UC Merced's Graduate Dean, will oversee the university's graduate education and postdoctoral…
Milestones
Read more →Congrats to Ali, Jorge, and Jonathan, who all walked at this weekend's commencement!
Milestones · Alumni · Graduation
Read more →Ali defended his dissertation and earned his Ph.D. today! Ali is the lab's 4th Ph.D. alum. Congratulations, Dr. AbouTaka!
Milestones · Alumni
Read more →Cristian passed his qualifying exam with flying colors! Well done and congratulations, Cristian!
Milestones
Read more →Sam defended her dissertation and earned her Ph.D. today! Sam is the lab's 3rd Ph.D. alum. Congratulations, Dr. Bidwell!
Milestones · Alumni
Read more →Hassan defended his dissertation and earned his Ph.D. Hassan became the lab's 2nd Ph.D. alum. Congratulations, Dr. Harb!
Milestones · Alumni
Read more →The National Science Foundation has awarded our campus a grant for purchasing a new high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The grant is titled "MRI: Acquisition of Pinnacles -- Raising Research…
Grants
Read more →Hassan Harb has been awarded a dissertation fellowship by the Chemistry & Chemical Biology Graduate Group. Congratulations, Hassan!
Awards
Read more →Xiaghai Sheng's paper on using the approximate projection (AP) model for calculating exchange coupling constants and spin crossover gaps using density functional theory has appeared in the Journal…
Publications
Read more →Our review of our recent work on lanthanide oxide and boride clusters with the Chick Jarrold Lab has been published in Accounts of Chemical Research. Congratulations to Hassan on this new publication!
Publications
Read more →Hrant has been awarded a National Science Foundation CARRER Award! This award supports ongoing work in the group to develop and implement new models that address electronic structure posing…
Awards · Grants
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