2012 Graduate Britta Johnson
2012 Graduate Britta Johnson
Britta Johnson was the Outstanding Graduate in College Scholars in 2012. Britta’s concentration was Mathematical and Chemical Physics. As a freshman, Britta won the C. W. Keenan Prize given to the best student in Honors General Chemistry and in 2011 she was one of three UTK students to be awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. Britta began research in computational quantum chemistry with Professor R. J. Hinde in the Department of Chemistry as a freshman. Her work has resulted in one peer-reviewed publication to date: B. Johnson and R. J. Hinde, “Pairwise Additive Model for the He-MgO(100) Interaction,” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2011, 115, 7112-7119. During the summers Britta worked as a resident advisor for the Governor’s School for the Sciences and Engineering while carrying on research in chemistry or mathematics. In the fall of 2012 Britta began graduate study in theoretical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.