CCL: Congratulations to CCG Excellence Award Winners

 Sent to CCL by: Jan Labanowski [janl/./speakeasy.net]
 2008 Press Release
 Chemical Computing Group Announces Winners of the CCG Excellence Award for
 the Fall 2008 ACS National Meeting
 MONTREAL, Canada, July 21, 2008 â?? Chemical Computing Group (CCG) and the
 American Chemical Society's (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP)
 congratulate the winners of the CCG Excellence Awards for the Fall 2008 ACS
 National Meeting in Philadelphia.
 CCG will recognize the following winners' works at the award presentation
 ceremony during the COMP Division Poster Session on Tuesday August 19,
 2008. Each winner will receive $1,150 US for travel costs to Philadelphia,
 as well as a one-year license for the newest version of the Molecular
 Operating Environment (MOE).
 The winners are:
 Satyender Goel, University of Central Florida
 Pairwise spin-contamination correction and application to 3-D transition
 metal hydrides from BS-DFT
 Lucius E. Johnson, University of Louisville
 Mechanism of electronic stabilization of cyclopropenylidene
 byamino-substitution
 In Suk Joung, University of Utah
 Determination of alkali and halide monovalent ion parameters for use in
 explicitly solvated biomolecular simulations
 Laveena Muley, University at Buffalo
 Binding affinity awarded for hydrophobic bonding in scoring functions needs
 to be context dependent
 Somisetti V Sambasivarao, Auburn University
 Systematic development of OPLS-AA force field parameters for ionic liquid
 simulations
 About CCG Excellence Award
 The CCG Excellence Award is granted semi-annually as an opportunity to
 invest in the future of scientific research and to encourage a new
 generation of computational chemists. Awardees are selected on the quality
 and significance of the research to be presented, as well as the strength
 of the supporting letter and supplemental materials. For more information
 on the CCG Excellence Awards and eligibility criteria, visit
 http://www.chemcomp.com/ssupport-academic.htm .
 Chemical Computing Group Inc. (http://www.chemcomp.com) is a leading supplier
 of scientific software for Life Sciences, headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
 Chemical Computing Group's software platform is the Molecular Operating
 Environment (MOE) that integrates visualization, simulation and methodology
 development in one package. MOE contains a wide variety of built-in
 applications in the fields of Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics,
 Computer-Aided Molecular Design and Molecular Modeling. MOE runs on a wide
 variety of computers including Windows, Linux, Macintosh and Unix systems
 both for the desktop and in parallel computing clusters. MOE is used by
 biologists, medicinal chemists and computational chemists in many
 pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies and universities
 throughout the world.
 E-mail enquiries can be sent to info]-[chemcomp.com .