News

Three papers from the Green group have been honored as among the most highly cited papers in the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics over the past five years, and are republished in a Special Issue of the journal:

• Temperature- and Pressure-Dependent Kinetics of CH2OO + CH3COCH3 and CH2OO + CH3CHO: Direct Measurements and Theoretical Analysis
• Perspective on Mechanism Development and Structure-Activity Relationships for Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry
• An Extended Group Additivity Method for Polycyclic Thermochemistry Estimation

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Lagnajit “Lucky” Pattanaik, the winner of a Takeda Fellowship which will provide his financial support and tuition for the 2021-2022 academic year.

The work of Awele Uwagwu, a former UROP in the Green Group, was recently highlighted in an MIT News article. He strives to accelerate the adoption solar energy to Nigeria, and has founded a startup developing software toward this aim. Congrats, and all the best for this important project!

A team from MIT, including Michael Forsuelo from the Green group, makes it to the finals of Elon Musk’s competition to find a faster way to dig tunnels. Congrats and best of luck!

Congratulations to recent Green Group alumnus Manish Shetty, who will start as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M in the Fall.

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!