{"id":905,"date":"2026-03-12T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/?p=905"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:49:21","slug":"we-received-the-nick-besley-award-from-q-chem-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/2026\/03\/12\/we-received-the-nick-besley-award-from-q-chem-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhou received the Nick Besley Award from Q-Chem, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zhou was selected as the recipient of the 2026 Nick Besley Award from Q-Chem, Inc., to recognize our pioneering contributions at the intersection of machine learning and quantum chemistry, and our work developing models that inform density functional parameters and predict molecular properties from spectroscopic data. Zhou will give a virtual webinar over the summer. Please check back the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.q-chem.com\/about\/besley\/\">award page<\/a>\u00a0for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-949\" style=\"width:460px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-1536x1187.png 1536w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-2048x1583.png 2048w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-100x77.png 100w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-150x116.png 150w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-200x155.png 200w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-450x348.png 450w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-600x464.png 600w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/07\/2026_Zhou-Lin_Besley-Award-900x695.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhou was selected as the recipient of the 2026 Nick Besley Award from Q-Chem, Inc., to recognize our pioneering contributions at the intersection of machine learning and quantum chemistry, and our work developing models that inform density functional parameters and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/2026\/03\/12\/we-received-the-nick-besley-award-from-q-chem-inc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zhou received the Nick Besley Award from Q-Chem, Inc.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}