Ashton receives a best poster award at the Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry held in Ottawa, ON July 12-16, 2026. Ashton presents a poster entitled “The Bethe-Salpeter equation within the GW approximation (GW/BSE) for exception energies of BODIPY and asa-BODIPY derivatives” which summarizes research he carried out in collaboration with PHYS 499 student Rishabh.