Dr. José Gascón is the recipient of a 2016 Research Excellence Program Storrs (REP-Storrs) award. The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to promote, support, and enhance the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of faculty at UConn, including (but not limited to) the strategic and emerging areas delineated in the Academic Plan and national and global priorities.

Dr. Gascón’s research will focus on the “Development of Connectivity-Based Force Fields to Model Thiolated Gold Molecular Clusters.”