News
- September 25th, 2020 - We would like to officially welcome three new research students, Junior chemical engineering major Unique Akinloye, and two Freshman chemistry majors Amani Talbert and Tyrone Thomas.
- April 17th, 2020 - Marquell has made his decision! He will be attending the University of Georgia to pursue a Master of Public Health degree. They are getting a great man, a humble man, a Morehouse Man. Congrats to Marquell.
- November 14th, 2019 - Marquell (along with other representatives from Morehouse College) presented a poster at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, California
- October 1st, 2019 - Princess attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, FL. The world’s largest gathering of women technologists!
- September 24th, 2019 - Sophomore computer science major Princess Sampson and sophomore Physics major Nicholas Arosemena officially join the group. Welcome to Princess and Nicholas!
- September 20th, 2019 - Dr. Derricotte gave an invited talk at the 2019 Herty Medal Research Symposium at Georgia Gwinnett College. Marquell also presented a poster based on his summer research.
- August 20th, 2019 - Our paper using SAPT and F-SAPT for reaction force analysis was Just Accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
- July 27th, 2019 - Dr. Derricotte gave an invited talk at the 2019 Leadership Alliance National Symposium entitled “Doing Chemistry on a Computer: Using Computational Quantum Chemistry to Study Chemical Reactions”.
- July 22nd, 2019 - Our paper detailing our new method applying Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory to reaction force analysis is now available as a ChemRxiv Preprint
- July 19th, 2019 - Marquell Gave his final presentation on his summer project entitled “The Effect of Solvation on the Oxidation of Trimethylamine”. Its been a great summer, congrats to Marquell!
- June 1st, 2019 - Senior Chemistry student Marquell Cole joins the lab this summer through the McNair scholars program, welcome Marquell!
- May 1st, 2019 - The Morehouse Chemistry Department had its annual Lab Coat Ceremony today! Congratulations to our rising seniors!
- April 5th, 2019 - We have received federal funding from the National Science Foundation for our project entitled “A Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory Approach to Reaction Force Analysis”.
- September 8th, 2018 - Dr. Derricotte gave an invited talk at the 1st annual Atlanta Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at Emory University. Thanks for hosting us!
- July 27th, 2018 - Dr. Derricotte participated in the 2018 Faculty Retreat/Grant Writing Coaching Group sponsored by the Leadership Alliance.
- July 23rd, 2018 - Senior chemistry student Malachi Berry officially joins the Derricotte Research Group! Welcome Malachi!
- July 20th, 2018 - Saul Ashley presented his final research presentation for the McNair Scholars Program on our SAPT-based reaction force analysis approach.
- June 28th, 2018 - Dr. Derricotte served as a judge for the Upward Bound Math/Science Center Research Symposium. Great presentations from High School students, the future looks bright!!
- May 23rd, 2018 - The Morehouse Chemistry Department had its annual Lab Coat Ceremony today! Congratulations to our rising seniors!
- May 17th, 2018 - Dr. Derricotte was awarded the James King Jr. Faculty Fellowship. Congrats to Drs. Shelby Wilson and Jeffrey Handy who were also awarded the fellowship for this academic year!
- December 11th, 2017 - Our paper on Mapping 3D orientation of piconewton integrin traction forces w as accepted for publication in Nature Methods! This project was a collaboration with the Saliata Lab at Emory University
- November 10th, 2017 - Our paper on Localized Intrinsic Valence Virtual Orbitals was accepted in th e Journal of Computational and Theoretical.
- November 3rd, 2017 - Saul Ashley joins the Derricotte Research Group, Welcome to Saul!
- August 18th, 2017. - Dr. Derricotte will be serving as a poster judge for the 2017 Morehouse College STEM Symposium
- July 18th, 2017 - Dr. Derricotte gave a poster presentation at the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry at Boston University entitled “Localized Intrinsic Valence Virtual Orbitals for the A utomated Classification of Core-Excited States”
