(C)Copyright Jie Song, 1998-2004

2008
October	A research paper, titled “Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship of Terpenoid Aphid Antifeedants”, was accepted by Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry.
August	The new Linux workstation with two AMD Opetron 2.0GHz quad-core processors finally arrived. Jie presented two posters at 236^th National Meeting of American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
July	Jie presented at 2008 American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Evanston, IL.
May	Brendan and Mike presented their results at MoM and MURF and Jie presented at 40^th Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference. A research paper, titled “QSAR study of mosquito repellents from terpenoid with a six-member-ring”, was published in *Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters\*
April	Brendan and Mike presented two posters at 235^th National Meeting of American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA.
March	The new Linux workstation with two AMD Opetron 3.2GHz dual-core processors arrived.
January	The new Linux workstation with two AMD Opetron 2.0GHz quad-core processors finally arrived.

2007
November	An article was published on UM Flint website regarding to our current research with Prof. Wang: http://www.umflint.edu/news/articles/23/1/Safer-Ways-to-Stop-Mosquito-Bites/Page1.html
July	Jie published a research paper, titled “Theoretical Investigation of Methylene: Using Ultrahigh Accurate MRCI Approach”, in *Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry*.
March	Matt, Carmin, and Jie presented three posters at 233^rd National Meeting of American Chemical Society, Chicago, IL. Matt and Carmin also presented two posters at Michigan Undergraduate Research Forum, Lansing, MI.

2006
December	Jie published a research paper, titled “High-level ab initio Calculations on the NiO₂ System”, in *Chemical Physics Letters*.
November	George gave an oral presentation at Argonne 17th Annual Undergraduate Symposium in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, Chicago, IL
May	George, Andy, and Carmin presented three posters at XIV Meeting of Minds, UM Dearborn. Jie presented a poster at 38^th Central Regional Meeting of American Chemical Society, Frankenmuth, MI.
March	Andy and George presented two posters at Michigan Undergraduate Research Forum, Lansing, MI. Andy, George, and Jie presented three posters at 231^th National Meeting of American Chemical Society, Atlanta, GA.
January	Jie published a research paper, titled “A Study on Electronic and Structural Properties of C₂₈and C₁₆N₁₂”, in *Molecular Physics*.

2005
November	George gave an oral presentation at Joint Meetinig of the 16th Annual Argonne Undergraduate Symposium & The Central States Universities, Incorporated (CSUI), Chicago, IL.
July	Jie published a research paper, titled “Investigation of tubulin polymerizing agents: Synthesis of substituted cyclooctatrienes as a possible taxoid framework”, in *Letters in Drug Design*. George published his paper, titled “Theoretical Investigations on Adsorption of NO on Copper Exchanged Zeolites (Cu-ZSM-5)", in UMURF.
June	George and Jie presented two posters at 37^th Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Columbia, MO.
May	George, Danny, and Dan presented three posters at XIII Meeting of Minds, Oakland University.
March	Jie presented a poster at 229^th National Meeting of American Chemical Society, San Deigo, CA.