Congratulations to the ACS PHYS Graduate Student Award finalists who gave great presentations at our virtual symposium and to the four winners. The ACS PHYS community looks forward to seeing all of your amazing work in your future scientific journeys!

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Experimental Awardees:
Zachary Faitz, Columbia University, Advisor: Martin Zanni
Development of Background-Free Ultrafast Photocurrent-Detected Spectroscopy and Its Application to Novel Photovoltaics
Levi Palmer, Stanford University, Advisor: Scott Cushing
Imaging Nanoscale Carrier Trapping in Photocatalytic Water-Splitting SrTiO3 Nanoparticles
Theory Awardees:
Changhwan Oh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Advisor: Heather J. Kulik
Computational Discovery of Metal-Organic Framework for Carbon Capture: When Do Molecular Design Rules Transfer?
Trine K. Quady, University of California, Berkeley, Advisor: Eric Neuscamman
How Local is Too Local? An Efficient Reformulation of Hartree-Fock Theory