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Undergraduate student Ian Welland was awarded the 2015 Tsong Prize for Undergraduate Research in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University for his work on Quantifying Solvent Kinetics with Kinetic Networks.

Proteins interact with the surrounding water, and water molecules influence the binding of ligands and drugs to proteins profoundly. Coarse-grained analysis of water dynamics can be facilitated with a network model of hydration as shown here for the retinol binding protein CRBPII.