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2023 – 2024 Service Award Recipients
Graduate students and postdocs were given awards in acknowledgment of their excellent service.
2023 – 2024 Teaching Award Recipients
Graduate students were given awards in acknowledgment for their excellent teaching.
Molecular sensor enables water bear hardiness by triggering dormancy
Uncover the molecular mechanism behind the incredible resilience of tardigrades.
First-Principles Approach for Coupled Quantum Dynamics of Electrons and Protons in Heterogeneous Systems
Kanai group has recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters (PRL) that features the article “First-Principles Approach for....
Lu Group discovers design principle for catalysts to harvest energy from environmental oscillations
Featured on the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, the Lu Group introduces a geometric theoretical framework that sheds light on cyclic chemical reaction networks, such as catalysis networks, to harness energy from rapid environmental oscillations.
Pielak elected 2024 Biophysical Society Fellow
Congratulations to Gary Pielak for being named a 2024 Biophysical Society Fellow.







