Graduate student Matthew Hermes, of the Hirata Lab, was recently chosen as one of two winners of the 2012 Graduate Student Award in Computational Physical Chemistry, given by the American Chemical Society's Theoretical Subdivision.

As winner of the award, Matthew will receive 100,000 service units (3,125 node hours) on the Blue Waters supercomputer. His work at Blue Waters will be centered around performing groundbreaking ab initio vibrational structure calculations on ice lh-- the common form of solid water.

For more information about Blue Waters, visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/ and for more information about the Hirata Lab, visit http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~sohirata/