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Ashley Ringer McDonald
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Group Position: Graduate Research Assistant
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Assistant Professor, Cal Poly
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PhD. Thesis
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From Small to Big: Understanding Noncovalent Interactions in Chemical Systems from Quantum Mechanical Models
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Awards
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- AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, 2008
- Iota Sigma Pi Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Outstanding Graduate Research, 2008
- National P.E.O. Fellowship, 2007
- 3rd Place Poster Award, SETCA 2006
- Best Poster Award, 14th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry (Jackson, MS, 2005)
- SETCA Graduate Student Poster Award, 2005
- NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2005
- DOE Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship (declined), 2005
- Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship, 2005
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Research Interests
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- Noncovalent interactions and crystal packing and structure
- Noncovalent interactions and molecular biophysics
- Substituent effects in pi-pi interactions
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Representative Publications
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