New paper in JCP!
A new paper from Atharva and Brad – “Identifying nonadditive contributions to the hydrophobicity of chemically heterogeneous surfaces via dual-loop active learning” – has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics! They develop an …
January 10, 2022ByungUk joins the group!
We’re happy to welcome ByungUk Park as a new group member! ByungUk is a first-year student in the Biophysics Program – we look forward to his contributions!
December 11, 2021Carlos and Josh join the group + group climbing!
We’re happy to welcome Carlos Huang-Zhu and Josh Richardson as new group members! Carlos and Josh are both first-year CBE students and we look forward to their contributions. To celebrate, the group visiting Boulder’s Climbing …
November 18, 2021Reid receives 2021 CoMSEF Young Investigator Award
Reid was named the winner of the 2021 CoMSEF Young Investigator award! He is cited “for the development and application of computational techniques to understand the interfacial properties of functionalized nanomaterials and their interactions with …
November 5, 2021Samartha defends her PhD!
Congratulations to the new Dr. Samartha Patel for defending her PhD today! Samartha will be moving to New York to work in the protein biochemistry group of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. We wish you all the best, …
August 10, 2021Reid discusses plastic recycling
Reid presented at the “Wednesday Night @ The Lab” public outreach program on plastic recycling, and particularly on the work ongoing in UW-Madison’s Center for the Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics (CUWP). Check it out here!
July 19, 2021
Farewell lunch for Brad
The group got together for lunch to wish Brad and his family the best as they plan for their move to Boston. Best of luck at Roivant, Brad, we’ll miss you!
June 10, 2021Brad defends his Ph.D.!
Our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Bradley C. Dallin who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Brad will next be joining Roivant Sciences in Boston to work on their computational drug discovery platform. We wish you …
June 8, 2021
Farewell brunch for Alex
The group was able to take advantage of the high vaccination rate in Dane County to indulge in a going-away brunch for Alex. Alex will be joining the Materials Science team at Schrödinger, Inc. in …
May 27, 2021Alex defends his Ph.D.!
Many congratulations to Dr. Alex Chew, who is the first student from the group to defend his Ph.D.!!! We’ll miss Alex greatly as he transitions to a new role as a senior scientist at Schrodinger …
May 5, 2021MTSM 2021 registration now open
We’re organizing the 2021 (virtual) Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics conference, which is a great way to catch up on exciting research from groups throughout the Midwest (or beyond this year due to the virtual …
April 19, 2021Two new papers in ACS Nano!
Two new papers from the group have both been accepted in ACS Nano. The first, by Alex and Brad is entitled “The Interplay of Ligand Properties and Core Size Dictates the Hydrophobicity of Monolayer-Protected Gold …
April 5, 2021Van Lehn Group members will attend the 2021 Spring ACS (Virtual)!
Our group members will be attending the 2021 Virtual ACS Spring meeting, scheduled on Monday, April 5th – Friday, April 30th. All talks will be live presentations, listed chronologically below in Pacific Standard Time (PST). …
March 25, 2021Welcome to Zeynep!
We’re very excited to welcome Zeynep Sumer to the group as a new postdoc! Zeynep joins us after completing her Ph.D at University College London. Welcome, Zeynep!
February 24, 2021Reid receives NSF CAREER award!
Reid received a CAREER award entitled CAREER: Molecular and Data-Centric Modeling of Cell-Penetrating Nanoparticles! Thank you to the NSF Division of Materials Research – Condensed Matter and Materials Theory and the NSF Division of Chemical, …
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