May 7, 2012: Jared Olson has been appointed as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University!
Congratulations to Jared!!!
May 4, 2012: Alina Sergeeva graduated from USU with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry! Congratulations to Dr. Alina Sergeeva !!
April 12, 2012: Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva! Alina won the Marjorie H. Gardner Teaching Award for her outstanding work as a teaching assistant.
March 21, 2012:Another great news! Our recent paper on aromaticity in graphene published in Nano Research was highlighted in VerticalNews !
Congratulations to Ivan Popov and Alex Boldyrev!
March 21, 2012: The Editors at The Journal of Chemical Physics facilitate publication of the most innovative and influential articles in the field of Chemical Physics each year. Our paper on all-boron analogues of aromatic hydrocarbons was selected among a few of the many notable JCP articles published in 2011 that present ground-breaking research. Check out the Journal of Chemical Physics Editors' Choice for 2011. Congratulations to Alina, Boris and Alexander!
March 9, 2012: Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva!!! Alina defendended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Rationalizing Structure, Stability, and Chemical Bonding of Pure and Doped Clusters, Isolated and Solvated Multiply Charged Anions, and Solid State Materials."
March 1, 2012: Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva! Alina has been named the 2011-2012 College of Science Ph.D. Graduate Researcher of the Year!!
February 22, 2012:
Professor Alexander M. Mebel from Florida International University visited our group and gave a Departmental Seminar entitled "Photochemically Induced Cold Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules on Titan and in the Interstellar Medium"
February 13, 2012: Another great news! The team's paper was highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News!
February 6, 2012: Congratulations to Timur Galeev, Alex Boldyrev and the collaborators from Brown University - their Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. paper was also highlighted in Chemistry World!
February 2, 2012: Our recent paper published in collaboration with the Wang group at Brown was highlighted in Utah State Today! Congratulations to Timur Galeev and Alex Boldyrev!
December 27, 2011: Ivan Popov published his first paper:
Is Graphene Aromatic? in Nano Research. Congratulations!!!
This paper is our first publication in a nanoscience focused journal.
October 18, 2011:Our former graduate student who is now an Assistant Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, came to give a departmental seminar entitled: "Artificial Enzymes: catalysis ahead of Nature".
September 8, 2011:The paper we published in collaboration with Prof. Wang's group, "Valence isoelectronic substitution in the B8− and B9− molecular wheels by an Al dopant atom: Umbrella-like structures of AlB7− and AlB8−", was featured on the cover of J. Chem. Phys. Congratulations to Timur Galeev with his first cover page!
August 31, 2011:Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva!
Alina won the American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Division Outstanding Student Poster Award at the 242nd ACS Meeting, Denver, CO.
August 22, 2011:Our group welcomes Edison Humberto Osorio Lopez, a visiting Ph. D. student from Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
July 30, 2011:Two new graduate students, Alexander Ivanov and Ivan Popov, joined the lab to pursue the Ph. D. degree at USU. Welcome!!!
July 7 - 10, 2011: Skyler Turner from Mountain Crest High School and Philip Cutler from Logan High School were pursuing research projects in our lab during the annual USU High School Summer Internship in Chemistry and Biochemistry
June 3, 2011:Zachary Piazza, a graduate student from the reseach lab of Professor Wang from Brown Univeristy, has come to visit our group for two months. Welcome!
May 23, 2011:The paper we published in collaboration with Prof. Merino, Prof. Heine, Prof. Ugalde and Gerardo Martínez-Guajardo, "Unravelling phenomenon of internal rotation in B13+ through chemical bonding analysis", is on the cover of Chemical Communications (Issue 22, 2011, 47, 6244-6246). Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva with her first cover page!
May 6, 2011: Congratulations to Jared Olson on graduation from USU with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry!!!
April 25, 2011:Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva on being awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student in Chemistry Award!
April 25, 2011:Congratulations to Timur Galeev for winning the Award for Early Research Progress in Chemistry!
April 14, 2011:Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva on being awarded the School of Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship for the 2011-12 Academic Year!
April 12, 2011:Congratulations to Timur Galeev and Alexander Ivanov (an upcoming graduate student, who is to join our lab in Fall'12) on getting published their first article from Utah State University.
April 9, 2011:Congratulations to Nancy Perez Peralta with her interview for a faculty position at Facultad de Quimica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
February 1, 2011: Nancy Perez Peralta joined our group. Nancy is the 1st postdoctoral associate in Prof. Boldyrev's lab history. She got the CONACYT Scholarship (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia or The National Council on Science and Technology) No. 148014, which supports her postdoctoral research. Welcome!
January 28, 2011: Congratulations to Jared Olson. His recently published article appeared on the cover page of Chemical Physics journal.
December 9, 2010: Congratulations to Jared Olson!!! He defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled:
"Ab initio Search for Novel BxHy Building Blocks with Potential for Hydrogen Storage"
July 27 , 2010:
A new graduate student, Timur Galeev, joined our lab. He is going to pursue his Ph. D. degree at USU. Welcome!!!
July 12, 2010:
July 6 - 9, 2010: A highschool student from Logan High School, Dustin Hicken, was pursuing a research project in our lab during the annual USU High School Summer Internship in Chemistry and Biochemistry
May 23 , 2010:
Congratulations to Timur Galeev on being awarded a prestigious USU Vice President for Research Fellowship!!! Timur will be joining our lab in August 2010.
May 13 , 2010:
Congratulations to Nathan Cannon on getting his Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at Saint Louis University, School of Medicine.
April 16 , 2010:
Congratulations to Ben Elliott on defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Multiresonance infrared spectroscopy for the separation and characterization of isomer contributions in gas phase ion clusters" at Yale University.
March 24 , 2010:
Congratulations to Alina on becoming a recipient of the American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Division Outstanding Student Poster Award for her work "Structure, stability and unique chemical bonding of pure boron clusters: All-boron hydrocarbon analogs" at the 239th American Chemical Society Meeting that took place in San Francisco, CA.
January 24 , 2010:
Our group in collaboration with the laboratory of Professor Lai-Sheng Wang publishes the 1st paper in Nature Chemistry. This article has already been highlighted in Chemistry World. Congratulations to Alina and Boris!
January 14 , 2010:
Congratulations to Alina Sergeeva on becoming the 2010 IBM-Zerner Award winner at the fiftieth meeting of the Sanibel Symposium on Atomic, Molecular and Solid State theory, organized by the Quantum Theory Project (QTP) for presenting her work "Towards unified chemical bonding theory".
October 5 , 2009:
July 28, 2009: Boris Averkiev has left our lab for a postdoctoral position at Professor Donald G.Truhlar Research Group, University of Minnesota.
Congratulations to you, Boris, and good luck!!!
July 13 - 16, 2009: Two highschool students, Rebekah Jung and Jan Dobrowolski, were pursuing research projects in our lab during the annual USU High School Summer Internship in Chemistry and Biochemistry
July 1, 2009: Congrats to Anastassia Alexandrova (PhD, USU, 2005) with the official Assistant Professor appointment at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA as of July 1, 2009!
April 30, 2009:
Congrats to Boris Averkiev!!! He defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled:
"Geometry and Electronic Structure of Doped Clusters via The Coalescence Kick Method"
Hurray!!!
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April 30, 2009:
The best thing that can happen in a family is when a baby is born.
We are very happy to congratulate Anastassia Alexandrova and Ben Elliott with a birth of Sophia! We wish you all cast-iron heath!
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April 21, 2009:
Great news again! Alexander Ivanovich is a recipient of the 2009 American Chemical Society Utah Award.
Congratulations!!!
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April 18, 2009:
Unbelievable! We got four Robins Awards out of four PhD nominees from our group!
2003 Aleksey Kuznetsov
2005 Anastassia Alexandrova
2008 Dmitry Zubarev
and now 2009 Boris Averkiev!!!
Congratulations to both Boris and Alex!
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April 7, 2009:
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We are delighted to congratulate our former PhD student Anastassia Alexandrova with getting an Assistant Professor position at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry!!! We are all very proud of you and wish you all the best! Go one more mile!
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March 18 - April 1, 2009:
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Prof. Yuri Dahnovsky from the University of Wyoming, Department of Physics and Astronomy has visited our group for two weeks of his subbatical during which he gave us a series of lectures on Green Functions
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March 16, 2009:
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Congrats to Boris Averkiev! He has been designated as the College of Science PhD Graduate Researcher of the Year for 2009! Now Boris's file is sent for consideration for the Robins Award RA of the Year. Good luck, Boris!
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February 25, 2009:
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Dr. Juan J. Novoa from the University of Barcelona visited our group and gave a Departmental Seminar entitled "Long distance bonds in the solid and in solutions"
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February 24, 2009:
Professor Alexander Boldyrev has been designated for the outstanding research and scholarly activity.
He won the USU Thorne Award of this year.
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February 11, 2009:
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Dr.Masunov from the University of Central Florida visited our group and gave a Departmental Seminar entitled "DFT-based Methods in Design of Two Photon Operated Molecular Switches"
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December 22, 2008:
August 15, 2008:
Congrats to Dr. Dmitry Zubarev with getting an appointment as a Postdoctoral Scholar Employee
in the group of Professor William A. Lester, Jr., Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley!
His appointment begin date is 09/01/2008.
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July 21-23, 2008: Two students from Intech Collegiate High School: Ellie Edwards and Mahli Olson had practice in our lab.
April 19, 2008:
Dmitry Zubarev won Utah State University Robins Award: Graduate Research Assistant of the Year 2008.
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April 1, 2008:
Dmitry Zubarev was awarded the Marjorie H. Gardner Teaching Award for 2008.
Boris Averkiev was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student in Chemistry Award for 2008.
Alina Sergeeva won the Award for Early Research Progress in Chemistry for 2008.
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March 27, 2008:
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Dmitry Zubarev has been designated as the College of Science PhD Graduate Researcher of the Year for 2008.
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March 24, 2008:
Dmitry Zubarev defended his Ph.D. dissertation:
"Analysis of Chemical Bonding in Clusters by Means of the Adaptive Natural Density Partitioning"
Hurray!!!
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March, 2008:
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July, 2007:
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Jared Olson and Alina Sergeeva joined the group as PhD students.
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June 25-27, 2007: Two students from Intech Collegiate High School: Braxton Shumway and Aaron Hooper had practice in our lab.
June 22, 2007: Boris Averkiev passed the oral portion of the PhD exam.
May, 2007:
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January, 2007:
The paper "Comprehensive analysis of chemical bonding in boron clusters" by D. Yu. Zubarev and A. Boldyrev (JCC, 2006, 28, 251-268, Special issue "90 Years of Chemical Bonding") is on the cover of Journal of Computational Chemistry starting from Vol. 28, issue 2.
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June, 2006:Papers of
Boris Averkiev and Dmitry Zubarev were accepted for the presentation at the
poster session at the 232nd ACS
National meeting (San-Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006).
March 6, 2006: Dmitry Zubarev passed the oral portion of the PhD exam.
February 9, 2006: The paper by H.-J. Zhai, L.-S. Wang, D. Yu. Zubarev, and A. Boldyrev is on the cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2006, 110(5), pp. 1689-1693)
August, 2005: Boris Averkiev joined the group as a PhD student after accomplishing his MSc in NMHU, Las Vegas.
May 6, 2005:
We had the Graduation Ceremony, where Anastassia and Ben were officially coronated as Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science respectively. Professor Boldyrev also looked really handsome.
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April 21, 2005: Professor Boldyrev was officially announced as a Full Professor.
April 21, 2005: Professor Boldyrev was entitled "USU College of Science Researcher of the Year 2005".
April 21, 2005: (Indeed, a very important day for the Lab) Anastassia Alexandrova was named the "USU College of Science Graduate Researcher of the Year 2005".
April 16, 2005: Anastassia Alexandrova received the USU Robins Award in the category "Research Assistant of the Year 2005".
March 24, 2005: Ben Elliott defended his M.S. Thesis.
March 15, 2005: Anastassia Alexandrova received an Excellence Award from the Chemical Computing Group of the American Chemical Society at the National ACS Meeting held in San Diego. Only 10 such awards were given Nation-wide.
March 10, 2005:Anastassia Alexandrova defended her Ph.D. dissertation.
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