{"id":10035,"date":"2023-05-06T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T21:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2023-05-06T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T21:21:50","slug":"mochi-moves-towards-computational-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2023\/05\/06\/mochi-moves-towards-computational-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochi moves towards computational chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By Angelica Fraine &#8217;23, staff writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With graduation here, it\u2019s an exciting time for current seniors to set their sights on new horizons, and for Bruno Mochi, the path onwards is clear.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mochi, a senior chemistry major, will pursue a Ph.D. at Northeastern University to further his career path in the field of computational chemistry\u2014chemistry that is done primarily with computers rather than hands-on lab work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of my professors, Dr. Ghimire, mentioned it off hand because he knew I was interested in math,\u201d Mochi said. \u201cAnd I said, okay this is kind of cool that people do chemistry, but on a computer.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this past summer, Mochi participated in a research program at the University of Miami where he was given the opportunity to explore different areas of computational chemistry and fell in love with the process.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI learned how to do one little snippet of it, and thought, this is so cool,\u201d Mochi said. \u201cI know I could do this for the rest of my life and be happy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, Mochi began to investigate what the next steps of his pursuit would be and decided to continue with higher education into a Ph.D. program to fully hone his skills and understanding of computational chemistry.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really open to whatever life has in store for me after I get my Ph.D.,\u201d Mochi continued to elaborate on his career goals. \u201cWhether it be working for a private company doing research and development, I\u2019d be open to that, or be a government scientist, I\u2019d also be open to that. That\u2019s where I see myself.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Mochi has high hopes for what the future entails and holds much excitement for what\u2019s to come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Angelica Fraine &#8217;23, staff writer With graduation here, it\u2019s an exciting time for current seniors to set their sights on new horizons, and for Bruno Mochi, the path onwards is clear.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mochi, a senior <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2023\/05\/06\/mochi-moves-towards-computational-chemistry\/\" title=\"Mochi moves towards computational chemistry\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}