Caricato Group News


Congratulations Dr. Kaihua Zhang

December 12, 2022

Kaihua Zhang successfully defended her thesis and earned her doctorate! Congrats Kaihua!

Emmanuel Forson joins our group. Welcome Emmanuel.

December 1, 2022

Congratulations Dr. Ty Balduf

March 29, 2022

Ty Balduf successfully defended his thesis and earned his doctorate with honors! Congrats Ty!

Shreyaa Brahmachari joins our group. Welcome Shreyaa.

June 1, 2022

Taylor Parsons joins our group. Welcome Taylor.

June 1, 2021

Congratulations Dr. Amy Jystad

June 5, 2020

5th year student Amy Jystad successfully defended her thesis and earned her doctorate with honors! Congrats Amy!

Kaihua publishes her first paper

June 2, 2020

Kaihua and Sijin published "Multi-state QM/QM Extrapolation of UV/Vis Absorption Spectra with Point Charge Embedding" in the Journal for Chemical Theory and Computation.

Congratulations Dr. Sijin Ren

May 29, 2020

Congratulations to Sijin Ren, who successfully defended her thesis on "Development and Application of Hybrid Methods".

Isaac Moore joins our group. Welcome Isaac.

January 23, 2020

New collaborative work with the Subramaniam Group is published in ChemCatChem

January 14, 2020

Amy and Marco have published "Enhanced Olefin Metathesis Performance of Tungsten and Niobium Incorporated Bimetallic Silicates: Evidence of Synergistic Effects" at ChemCatChem with the Subramaniam group at KU's CEBC. 

Congratulations Dr. Matt Barclay.

December 13, 2019

Congrats to Dr. Matt Barclay for succesfully defending his doctorate thesis today. He is the second student from the Caricato group to graduate. He will be going on to a post-doctoral position at Boise State University. 

Katherine presents a poster at the KU Fall Undergraduate Research Poster Session

December 10, 2019

Katherine presented a poster over "Isotope effect on optical rotation: a computational study" at the Fall Undergraduate Research Poster Session at the Kansas Union. She was chosen as 1 of 38 posters in a very diverse set of research subjects.

Amy goes to Orlando, FL for National AIChE Meeting

November 11, 2019

Amy gives an oral presentation, "Automated Generation of Metal-Doped Amorphous Silica Clusters" at the 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting in sunny Orlando, FL in the New Methods and Developments in Computational Catalysis I session.

Sijin, Ty and Ryan head to Wichita, KS for MWRM 2019

October 16, 2019

Sijin and Ty give oral presentations at MWRM2019. Undergraduate researcher, Ryan, presents his first poster.

Congrats on Katherine's first paper

September 6, 2019

Katherine and Amy's paper on silica supported molecular palladium catalyst for selective hydrodeoxygenation of aromatic compounds under mild conditions is published! It's our undergraduate's, Katherine, first publication!