Aleksei Aksimentiev, part-time faculty member in Beckman's Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials Group and associate professor of physics, has been selected to receive a one-year NCSA Fellowship for 2015-2016. His collaborative project is entitled "Patchwork Molecular Dynamics: A New Paradigm for Hardware-Accelerated Large-Scale All-Atom Simulations of Biological Systems."