Graduate Student Mike Murcia Awarded ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Poster Award

INDIANAPOLIS - 11.21.2005

PH.D. candidate Mike Murcia, (Naumann Group) was awarded the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Poster Award earlier this year.

ACS DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
SPRING 2005 STUDENT POSTER AWARD WINNERS

The Division of Physical Chemistry is pleased to announce the winners of the Student Poster Award Competition at the Spring 2005 ACS Meeting in San Diego, CA. They are:

• Elena Jakubikova, Colorado State University, "Exploration of Basis Sets for Calculation of Intermolecular Interactions"
• Taewoo Lee, Brown University, "Ultrafast X-ray Absorption Fine Structures (UXAFS) Measurements of Solvated Transition Metal Complexes: Seeing Atomic Motions in Solutions"
• Shashi Vyas, University of California, Davis, "Using Residual Quadrupolar Couplings to Study Ion Binding Site Structure in Biomolecules"
• Michael Murcia, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, "Single Molecule Tracking on Quantum Dot-Conjugated Phospholipids"
• Eric G. Diken, Yale University, "Argon Predissociation Spectroscopy of the Small Protonated Water Clusters in the 1000-2000cm^-1 Region: Using the Shared Proton Bands to Explore the Evolution of Eigen vs Zundel Forms of the H⁺(H₂O)_n)(n=2-6) Cations"
• Chad Ray, Duke University, "Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy of Alpha-synuclein 12-mer"

Congratulations to the presenters of these excellent posters! Each winner received $300 and a signed award certificate. The Physical Chemistry Division thanks the many other people who entered the competition and also the anonymous and impartial judges.

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