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At the Chemical Engineering Department Awards Ceremony on May 17, contributions over the past year by Gwen Wilcox, Lucky Pattanaik, and Kevin Greenman were called out for special recognition. Kevin also received the Rock Award. Congratulations!

Prof. Green testified to the Massachusetts State Senate about Electrification of Personal Transportation.

The article “Regio-selectivity prediction with a machine-learned reaction representation and on-the-fly quantum mechanical descriptors” (https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC04823B) authored by Yanfei Guan, Connor W. Coley, Haoyang Wu, Duminda Ranasinghe, Esther Heid, Thomas J. Struble, Lagnajit Pattanaik, William H. Green and Klavs F. Jensen is featured in the themed collection “Editor’s Choice – Jinlong Gong”. Congrats!

Kevin Greenman was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a highly competitive and prestigious fellowship which provides funding over a period of three years. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Congratulations for this great achievement! 

Gwen Wilcox has been selected to receive an Outstanding Contributor Award at this year’s MIT Excellence Awards, which acknowledges the extraordinary efforts made by members of the MIT community toward fulfilling the goals, values and mission of the Institute. Gwen is known to go above and beyong to engage, train and help students, faculty and staff members, direct lab members towards resources, and played a central role in implementing policies and guidelines around COVID-19, ensuring access to campus, organizing special events, but also providing personal support and advice – we are truly glad to have Gwen in the group. Congratulations!

Two Green group articles are featured in the J.Phys.Chem.’s Virtual Special Issue on Machine Learning in Physical Chemistry, namely the article “Accurate Thermochemistry with Small Data Sets: A Bond Additivity Correction and Transfer Learning Approach” by Colin A. Grambow, Yi-Pei Li, and William H. Green, as well as the article “Deep Learning of Activation Energies” by Colin A. Grambow, Lagnajit Pattanaik, and William H. Green. Congrats!

The autumn 2020 issue of MITEI’s magazine Energy Futures includes an article about recent Green group graduate Lisa Hsieh’s work calculating the costs and benefits of China’s policies supporting battery-powered cars.

Congratulations to Hao-Wei Pang for winning a Think Global Trust Fellowship that will start in summer 2021.

Congratulations to Yunsie Chung for winning an MolSSI Fellowship to work on software for modeling kinetics in solution phase during the first half of 2021.

Green group research enabling predictive chemical kinetics is on the cover of the November issue of the AIChE Journal (https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aic.16656). Congrats!