Devarajan "Dave" Thirumalai Named Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin

After thirty years at Maryland, Distinguished University Professor Devarajan "Dave" Thirumalai (IPST / Chemistry) has moved to the University of Texas at Austin, to become the Chair of the Department of Chemistry. Dave is an outstanding scientist and educator, and was the founding Director of the Maryland Biophysics Program. His theoretical research at the interface of chemistry, physics and biology has been recognized by numerous awards, including his recent election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the 2016 Award in Theoretical Chemistry given by the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society "for outstanding contributions to physical and biophysical chemistry, especially work on protein and RNA folding, protein aggregation, and effects of molecular crowding in cells". Dave is a highly valued colleague who has contributed greatly to the intellectual life of the Institute. We will miss him, and we wish him all the best as he embarks on the next stage of his academic career.