Professor Yara Yingling, Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at NC State University, will receive the 2012 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry from the American Chemical Society Computers in Chemistry Division at the Fall ACS meeting in Philadelphia for her work on “Tuning DNA Structural Bending with Charged Nanoparticles”. The award is based on the novelty and importance of junior faculty research and is designed to assist new faculty members in gaining visibility within the computers-in-chemistry community.