Yang Lab

Congratulations to Ge Song Awarded Peter W. Jeffs Fellowship

Graduate student Ge Song has been awarded the Peter W. Jeffs Fellowship for the 2026 academic year.

Congratulations to Jacob Williams Awarded Two Fellowships

Graduate student Jacob Williams has been awarded the Graduate Ambassador Fellowship and the Shaffer-Hunnicutt Fellowship.

Congratulations to Yichen Fan Awarded Paul M. Gross Fellowship

Graduate student Yichen Fan has been awarded the Paul M. Gross Fellowship for the 2025 academic year.

Congratulations to Jincheng Yu Awarded Lockmuller Fellowship

Graduate student Jincheng Yu has been awarded the Lockmuller Fellowship for the 2022 academic year.

Congratulations to Jacob Williams Awarded Charles Bradford Fellowship

Graduate student Jacob Williams has been awarded the Charles Bradford Fellowship for the 2022/2023 academic year.

Yuncai Mei Awarded Shaffer-Hunnicutt Fellowship

Graduate student Yuncai Mei has been awarded the Shaffer-Hunnicutt Fellowship for the 2019/2020 academic year.

Congratulations to Dr. Yang Yang!

Former graduate student Yang Yang (2016) has accepted a tenure track positon as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Latest in Density Functional Theory published in PNAS

Neil Qiang Su, Chen Li, and Weitao Yang, “Describing strong correlation with fractional-spin correction in density functional theory” PNAS article

Congratulations to Aaron Mahler – MolSSI 2018 Phase-II Software Fellowship

The Molecular Sciences Software Institute selected Aaron’s project “Localized Orbital Scaling Correction for Periodic Systems” to advance to Phase-II.

Congratulations to Zehua Chen – Kathleen Zielik Fellowship

Zehua has been selected to receive a Kathleen Zielik Fellowship for aptitude in research – both experimental abilities in the lab as well as thinking logically and creatively about chemistry.

Yang Lab publication selected for 2017 Editors’ Choice award

“On Extending Generalized Kohn-Sham Density Functionals to Systems with Fractional Number of Electrons” named to The Journal of Chemical Physics Editors’ Choice list.  The article will be part of a collection that is made freely available to the public without a subscription for all of 2018.  For more information or to download the collection, visit the site.