Hoy Research Group

Recent Group News 

2025

5/2025: Congratulations to our 2025 graduates: Jamie Clapp, Dana Casas, Emily Nelson, Grace McGowan, Kale Kroenke, and Mackanzie Nash!

4/2025: Grace McGowan and Kale Kroenke have accepted Ph.D. offers at Penn State and Rowan Universities starting in Fall 2025.

3/2025: Grace McGowan received a Dean's Outstanding Senior Award, the highest award given to students in Chemistry & Biochemistry. Congratulations Grace!

1/2025: Welcome to two new students in our lab: Abbas Sanawed Wala (Graduate Student) and Sarvagya Dwivedi (Undergraduate).

2024

10/2024: Kale Kroenke has been awarded a Menon Grand Scholarship from Rowan University's College of Science and Mathematics. Congratulations Kale!

9/2024: Our collaborative paper with the Lofland group at Rowan University was just published in Advanced Functional Materials! Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202412402

8/2024: Our group has received an award from the National Science Foundation's ExpandQISE program! Read about the award and the corresponding project in the NSF's press release.

8/2024: Dr. Hoy has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation! Read about the award and corresponding project on Rowan Today.

7/2024: A joint paper with our collaborators in the Sand group at Butler University was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c02666

3/2024: Dr. Hoy presented our group's research at the National Meetings for both the American Physical Society and the American Chemical Society this month.

1/2024: Our paper "Assessing the Importance of Multireference Correlation in Predicting Reversed Conductance Decay" has just been accepted into Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics! Congratulations to Tanner, Samir, and Matt!
Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP01110K

1/2024: Welcome to our first group member from Rowan Community College of South Jersey, Maddison Moran!

2023

12/2023: Our group has been awarded a grant from the Eppley Foundation for the project: "Designing Novel Drugs by Leveraging Prototropic Tautomerism."

11/2023: Anna Boddy successfully defended her thesis and will be our first Master's graduate! Congratulations Anna!

11/2023: Dana Casas joined our research group this month. Welcome Dana!

9/2023: 3 new undergraduate members joined our group this month. Welcome to Grace, Kevin, and Owen!

9/2023: Our paper on mechanoluminescence emission prediction in N-alkyl carbazoles was just published in ChemistrySelect! Congratulations to Shajib and Justin! Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202300508

8/2023: Welcome to Adarsh Kumar, our second Ph.D. student!

8/2023: Our visiting high school student from ACS Project SEED student from this Summer has decided to rejoin our group as an undergraduate this semester. Welcome Brian!

5/2023: Congratulations to our newest graduates: Bryanna Fofie, Josh Rivkind, and Matt Tineo!

4/2023: Congratulations to Matt Tineo who received the Mark & Barbara Chamberlain Research Award and Josh Rivkind who received the South Jersey American Chemical Society Student Award!

4/2023: We've added 1 new undergraduate member for the summer. Welcome to Lalit!

3/2023: Congratulations to Josh Rivkind who will be joining the Ph.D. program at Penn State this Fall!

3/2023: Dr. Hoy presented our group latest nanoelectronics research at the Spring 2023 ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis and virtually at the March 2023 APS National Meeting.

Older Group News

2022

11/2022: Welcome our 1 new graduate (Jamie) and 2 new undergraduate (Kale and Prudence) group members!

9/2022: We added 4 new undergraduate group members this month! Welcome to Elizabeth, Gia, Ivan, and Jesse!

8/2022: Julia and Matt presented their work at the ACS National Meeting in Chicago. 

8/2022: The first public version of a python based version of our RUQT transport code (pyRUQT) is available on our Github page. 

7/2022: Rowan Today has written a story about our recent NSF grant.
See it here: https://today.rowan.edu/news/2022/07/designing-next-generation-nanoscale-electronics.html

6/2022: Josh received a CME STEM Summer Scholarship from Chemical Marketing & Economics, Inc.  Congratulations Josh!
See award information here: https://www.cme-stem.org/people/joshua-rivkind/

6/2022: Anna, Dr. Hoy, Matt, and Samir presented their work at MARM 2022.

5/2022: Congratulations to our graduates this year: Evelyn, Jason, Lindsey, Samir, and Tanner!

4/2022: Our group has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation: "Collaborative Research: Multi-configurational Methods for Charge Transport in Nanoscale Electronics."

4/2022: Welcome to our 2 newest group members, Ivette Ortega and Kwame Kyem Aggrey!

3/2022: Dr. Hoy and Tanner Cossaboon virtually presented their research at the ACS Spring 2022 National Conference!

2021

12/2021: Our group has been awarded an Undergraduate New Investigator Grant from the ACS-PRF to study "All-Carbon Electronics: Electron Correlation and Reversed Electrical Conductance Decay in Heavy Oil Derivatives."

11/2021: Emily Nelson has joined our research group! Welcome to Emily!

10/2021: Two more undergraduates have joined our group this semester. Welcome to Bryanna Fofie and Daryl Miller!

9/2021: Our paper on the NEGF-MCPDFT methodology has been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics!
Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0063293 

9/2021: Welcome to our three new undergraduate group members for the Fall 2021 semester: Joshua Rivkind, Lindsey Thomlinson, and David Zarnoch, and welcome back to Anna and Julia who are returning as Master's students (MS in Pharmaceutical Science) this semester!

7/2021: Our group presented our summer research progress at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium at Rowan. Thank you to Jason, Matt, Samir, and Tanner for your contributions to the posters!

6/2021: The results of our collaboration with the Perez group at Rowan have been published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Check it out here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/OB/D1OB00786F#!divAbstract

5/2021: Congratulations to Annie Boddy and Julia Gabriel who just received their Bachelor's Degrees in Chemistry at Rowan!

5/2021: Our group has received a startup allocation from the NSF XSEDE program to study "Reversed Electrical Conductance Decay in Single-Molecule Organic Electronics"

4/2021: A preprint about our group's new charge transport method, NEGF-MCPDFT, developed in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Sand of Butler University is now available on arXiv!

4/2021: Dr. Hoy and Shajib Jabadal presented their research at the Spring 2021 National ACS Virtual Meeting.

3/2021: Our new software package for studying charge transport in molecular junctions, Rowan University Quantum Transport (RUQT), is now available on Github!

2/2021: Our paper by former students Don Bones and Justin Malme, Examining conductance values in the biphenyl molecular switch with reduced density matrices, has been published in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry!

1/2021: Our group has been awarded a computational grant for 100,000 SUs on the Rutgers supercomputer Caliburn!

2020

12/2020: Welcome to our newest group members: Joseph Mattiucci (joint with the Perez group) and Evelyn Meyers!

9/2020: Welcome to the 5 new group members: Ryan Heston, Krishna Pandya, Micheal Senft, Catelyn Stevenson, and Sara Trainor!

9/2020: Dr. Hoy will be giving a presentation at the Maple Conference 2020 in November! Registrar for free at https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/ to watch!

6/2020: Dr. Hoy joined the "Enhancing Science Courses by Integrating Python (ESCIP) Workshop" to develop new Python based tools for the classroom: https://escip.github.io/workshops/.

5/2020: Congratulations to the first Hoy Research Group graduates: Don X. Bones,  Justin T. Malme, Raul Mendez, and Eric Nesbihal! Don will be PhD student at the University of Maine in the Fall, and at the same time, Justin will be starting his PhD at the University of Urbana-Champaign. Raul Mendez has accepted a position at IBX, and Eric Neshibal has taken a programming job in private industry. Congratulations everyone!

4/2020: We have another new group member: Welcome to Samir Kazmi!

3/2020: We have 4 new group members: Welcome to Anna, Charles, Jason, and Tanner!

1/2020: Don, Justin, and Shajib will be presenting posters in the Computational Division at the National ACS Meeting in Philly!

2019

10/2019: Our group Github is now online with our first published code: MoleMod by Don X. Bones!  https://github.com/HoyLab-Rowan

10/2019: We have 3 more new group members! Welcome to Dylan, Julia, and Mark!

9/2019: Dr. Hoy has been invited to speak at the RDM2020 conference in Spain next year: http://rdm2020.dipc.org/

9/2019: We have 4 new group members! Welcome to Emily, Eric, Mark, and Raul!

7/2019: The group has been awarded a Rowan SEED grant!

7/2019: The Rowan University Blog has written an Faculty PROFile about Dr. Hoy.