Group News


·         Our recent work with Dingguo on the bacterial metallo-b-lactamase is published on JACS as a communication, Dec. 2010.

·         Hua is appointed as an adjunct Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UNM.

·         National Science Foundation funds the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant in which Hua is a co-PI, Sept. 2010

·         Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) funds a grant on bacterial adhesion, in which Hua is a co-PI, Sept. 2010

·         Bin Jiang (Nanjing U. China) and Hong Fu (Wuhan Inst. Math. Phys., China) are starting their one-year exchange studentship in the group starting Sept. 1.

·         Greg attended the ACS national meeting in Boston and presented two posters on his work. Aug. 2010.

·         Jianyi’s paper on OH + O state-to-state quantum dynamics was chosen to appear on the cover of August 7 issue of J. Chem. Phys. This paper has also been selected for the August 16, 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, which covers a focused area of frontier research. It is also one of the top 20 most downloaded paper on J. Chem. Phys. in August, 2010.

·         Stav Gold, Caleb Miles, Joseph Na and Reina Buencosejo spent the summer in the group as interns.

·         Hua gave a talk at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China, July, 2010.

·         Hua gave a talk at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, July 2010.

·         Hua gave a talk at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, July 2010.

·         Hua gave a talk at Northwest University, Xian, China, June 2010.

·         Hua gave a talk at Yunnan University, Kunming, China, June 2010.

·         Hua was an invited speaker at a Telluride Workshop on Toward Meaningful Analysis of Phosphoryl Transfers and RNA Catalysis: Experiments and Computations.

·         Dingguo is visiting the group for three months starting May.

·         Hua was an invited speaker at a Telluride Workshop on New Challenges for Theory in Chemical Dynamics, Jan. 2010.

·         Hua is appointed as a 50th anniversary editor of Acc. Theo. Chem. He will also serve on the Editorial Board of the journal.

·         The paper on O + O2 exchange reaction is published in PNAS, Jan. 2010.

·         Hua gave an invited talk at North Texas University, Jan. 2010.