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The annual Departmental Senior Awards are presented to students demonstrating excellence in their academic studies in chemistry, research in the labs, and/or teaching in the classroom. We are pleased to announce the recipients of Carolina Chemistry’s 2023 Departmental Senior Awards.
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The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce the recipients of our annual Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Research Awards.
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In this work, we employ a few simple density-based quantities from the information-theoretic approach (ITA) to predict polarizability of proteins.
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A team of collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won Phase 1 of the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN)-sponsored Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Active AI Planners for Chemistry/Materials Optimization and Discovery Grand Challenge.
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Jack Sundberg has created a software to help chemists uncover the best materials for their experiments — a potential game-changer for minimizing time and costs.
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UNC researchers James Cahoon and Taylor Teitsworth show how silicon nanowires that can convert light into electricity were engineered to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in a paper published Feb. 8 in Nature.