An article by Professor Shields appeared in the December 2002 CUR Quarterly. The article, "The Benefits of Forming a Consortium for an NSF-MRI Proposal" is part of the Quarterly's Focus on the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program.

As part of the Undergraduate Chemistry Supercomputer Research Consortium project, funded by the National Science Foundation, the chemistry department at Hamilton college has aquired a supercomputer for student and faculty research. The supercomputer is an SGI Origin 300 with 32 processors, 32 gigabytes of memory and nearly a terabyte of disk space. More...

Professor of Chemistry George Shields received a $782,220 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation grant program. The grant allowed for a consortium of seven northeastern liberal arts institutions to acquire a supercomputer for various computational chemistry research projects. The supercomputer is located at Hamilton College. More...