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Graduate Student Irene Metz Defends Thesis

Irene K. Metz (Mason group) successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on July 23, 2021. Irene is a chemistry instructor at Hawkeye Community College. For her thesis, they carried out some traditional DFT projects and alsodeveloped/implemented/assessed activities using open-source comp chemistry in first year classes at HCC. She also used Sustainable Nano blog posts to build class activities during covid to keep their students engaged with real-world applications of chemistry. Congratulations, Dr. Metz!

CSN Publication: A systematic determination of hubbard U using the GBRV ultrasoft pseudopotential set

Joseph Bennett’s and  Blake Hudson’s manuscript, entitled “A systematic determination of hubbard U using the GBRV ultrasoft pseudopotential set,” has been accepted by Computational Materials Science. Read the online publication here. Joseph W. Bennett, Blake G. Hudson, Irene K. Metz, Dongyue Liang, Sidney Spurgeon, Qiang Cui and Sara E. Mason, Computational Materials Science, 2019, 170, 109137.