Abrams Undergraduate Researcher Awarded ACS NES Summer Fellowship

The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) established the James Flack Norris and Theodore William Richards Undergraduate Summer Fellowships to honor the memories of Professors Norris and Richards by promoting research interactions between undergraduate students and faculty.

This year’s NESACS summer research fellowship was awarded to Morris Cohen (BU Chemistry, Class of 2013), who joined the research group of Dr. Binyomin Abrams in the fall of 2011. Under the mentorship of Dr. Abrams and former PFF Dr. Adam Moser, Morris has been working on the development of an all-atom computational model for the meta-phenylene ethynylene class of foldamers – oligomers that fold into helical structures in solution using non-covalent interactions. Morris has been utilizing several software packages for this work, including Gaussian, CHARMM, and NAMD, on computational resources located at BU as well as the RANGER supercomputer at the University of Texas, Austin.

Morris Cohen receiving a 2012 NESACS Norris-Richards Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship at the 2012 NESACS Awards Ceremony with Dr. Binyomin Abrams
Morris Cohen receiving a 2012 NESACS Norris-Richards Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship at the 2012 NESACS Awards Ceremony with Dr. Binyomin Abrams