Congratulations to Raphael, who was awarded the Miguel Velez Scholarship. The Miguel Velez Scholarship provides financial support to master's degree (except MBA) or Ph.D. students who demonstrate outstanding past academic achievement as well as future promise and are citizens of a Latin American country.

Congratulations to Kevin Vu, an undergraduate researcher in our group, for receiving a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) fellowship at UCI for the 2012-2013 academic year. The title of his research project is "Testing Machine Learning Methods on Density Functional Theory and Various Functionals."

Min-Cheol Kim submitted his work, Classifying and reducing errors in density functional calculations, to PRL. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3054.

DFT in a nutshell will be featured on the cover of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry in the new year.