Graduate student Victor Murcia has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “DEVELOPMENT OF TENSOR BASED BUILDING
BLOCK MODELS WITH DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS AND CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS FOR A QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF MOLECULAR ORIENTATION USING NEAR EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY OF SMALL MOLECULES”. For this work, he has been awarded his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. Congratulations, Victor!