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University of Cincinnati, Chemistry Department
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April 2026
Protecting the Brain with Chemistry
UC Chemistry student and Dima Group member Carter St. Clair will pursue his interest in computational chemistry through a new fellowship at the Air Force Research Laboratory. His topic: new applications in AI in human health.
April 2026
Chemistry Department Awards for Lab Member
Congrats to Shehani, Emily, Julie, Carter, and Emily for being recognized and receiving awards at the Chemistry Department Award Ceremony. We are so proud of you!
April 2026
Korina recieved Honorable Mention for the NSF GRFP
Korina Beran has received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition. This recognition highlights Korina's research proposal on the molecular mechanisms connecting tau aggregation to envelope formation on microtubules using multiscale computational modeling and machine learning. Congrats!
February 2026
Maryum won the 2026 Student Research Achievement Award at BPS!
Maryum Irshad was recognized at the Biophysical Society Conference for the Student Research Achievement Award. She was selected by judges from the Society’s Subgroups (Motility & Cytoskeleton) for her outstanding poster titled "A Machine Learning Approach to Extracting Protein-Protein Binding Energies from Molecular Dynamic Simulations" during the poster competition. Huge congratulations!
February 2026
Congratulations to Carter on his selection for the Air Force Research Laboratory Internship!
Carter St. Clair has been selected for the 2026 Repperger Research Internship at the Air Force Research Laboratory. His work will focus on "Personalized Physical Training Prescriptions to Optimize Warfighter Performance". We are incredibly proud of him!
January 2026
January 2026
Huge Congrats to Shehani For Her Fellowship
Huge Congrats to Shehani For Her Fellowship
We are so proud of Shehani Kahawatte for being selected as a recipient of the University of Cincinnati Dean's Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year. This fellowship funds doctoral students in their penultimate/final year of degree work to support superior scholarship that enhances the reputation of their program, college, and the University of Cincinnati.
January 2026
January 2026
Julie Wins University-Wide Teaching Award
Julie Wins University-Wide Teaching Award
Huge congratulations to Julie Schlanz for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award from the UC Graduate College! The Graduate College's annual Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes an outstanding doctoral student for their achievements in the classroom.
October 2025
October 2025
Shehani and Maryum Recieved Proctor & Gamble Poster Award
Shehani and Maryum Recieved Proctor & Gamble Poster Award
Huge congratulations to Shehani and Maryum on winning the Proctor & Gamble Poster Award for clearly communicating innovative research presented during the Oesper Symposium Poster Session.
April 25, 2025
April 25, 2025
New Publication Out
New Publication Out
Check out our newewst paper where we perform a variety of molecular simulations (including metadynamics) on katanin and suggest that about one-fourth of the known M87 spastin disease-associated mutations also affect the interconversion and/or the stability of a previously unrecognized intermediate of the katanin transition.
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