With over seventy total researchers during the summer, the Furman University Chemistry Department boasts one of the largest undergraduate research programs in the nation. The summer of 2014 marked the 50th consecutive program in which undergraduates, masters students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty mentors, and visiting faculty from area schools work together over a ten-week period in a wide variety of scientific research projects. The undergraduate students, who receive stipends for the summer, carry out independent investigations in the areas of analytical, inorganic, physical, organic and bio-organic chemistry. This program would not be possible without the support of wide variety of public and private sources.
These student/faculty collaborations produced the following research papers that were published in peer-reviewed journals.
Submissions from 2019
Analysis of Polyhexamethylene Biguanide and Alexidine in Contact Lens Solutions Using Capillary Electrophoresis, Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry, Brandon L. Thompson, Vikram N. Samant, Xing Wei, Frederic D.C. David, Carter E. Edmunds, Jonathan M. Wheeler, K Scott Phillips, John F. Wheeler, and Sandra K. Wheeler
Incorporation of Gold Nanoparticles into the Bilayer of Polydiacetylene Unilamellar Vesicles , Andrew Tobias, Whit Rooke, and Timothy W. Hanks
A comparison of the metal-ligand interactions of the pentafluorophenylethynyl and trifluoropropynyl ligands in transition metal cyclam complexes, Paul S. Wagenknecht
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Oxidation of Silyl Ethers to Silyl Esters, Alicia M. Weinhofer, Houston D. Cole, Ben A. Mitchell, Amanda J. Ritz, David B. Vogt, Jacob E. Rabinovitch, Brian C. Goess, and Sarah K. Goforth
Submissions from 2018
Comparison of Surface-Bound and Free-Standing Variations of HKUST-1 MOFs: Effect of Activation and Ammonia Exposure on Morphology, Crystallinity, and Composition, Brandon H. Bowser, Landon J. Brower, Monica L. Ohnsorg, Lauren K. Gentry, Christopher K. Beaudoin, and Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Modulating the Masters: Chemical Tools to Dissect CBP and p300 Function, Meghan E. Breen and Anna K. Mapp
Surface modification of polyaniline nanorods with thiol-terminated poly(ethylene oxide), Brandon T. DiTullio, Cassandra J. Wright, Patricia Hayes, Paul J. Molino, and Timothy W. Hanks
Development of a Microchip CE-HPMS Platform for Cell Growth Monitoring, William M. Gilliland, Jr. and J. Michael Ramsey
Total synthesis of (±)-hibiscone B and (±)-acyl hibiscone B, Brian C. Goess, Peyton Roth, Ian McCraw, Hudson Tryon, and Hayden Rudd Furman University
Building Soft Nanomachines from Polydiacetylene Liposomes, Timothy W. Hanks
Pharmaceutical solvate formation for the incorporation of the antimicrobial agent hydrogen peroxide, Kortney M. Kersten, Meghan E. Breen, Anna K. Mapp, and Adam J. Matzger
Linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate as protometabolic analogs of the citric acid cycle, Greg Springsteen, Jayasudhan R. Yerabolu, Julia Nelson, Chandler Joel Rhea, and Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy
Antiretroviral concentrations and surrogate measures of efficacy in the brain tissue and CSF of preclinical species, Nithya Srinivas; Elias P. Rosen; William M. Gilliland, Jr.; Martina Kovarova; Leila Remling-Mulder; Gabriela De La Cruz; Nicole White; Lourdes Adamson; Amanda P. Schauer; Craig Sykes; Paul Luciw; J. Victor Garcia; Ramesh Akkina; and Angela D. M. Kashuba
Exploring the Rich Potential Energy Surface of (H2O)11 and Its Physical Implications, Berhane Temelso, Katurah Klein, Joel W. Mabey, Cristob́al Peŕez, Brooks H. Pate, Zbigniew Kisiel, and George C. Shields
Effect of Mixing Ammonia and Alkylamines on Sulfate Aerosol Formation, Berhane Temelso, Elizabeth F. Morrison, David L. Speer, Bobby C. Cao, Nana A. Appiah-Padi, and George C. Shields
Oxidatively stable ferrocenyl-π-bridge-titanocene D-π-A complexes: an electrochemical and spectroscopic investigation of the mixed-valent states, Paul S. Wagenknecht
Observation of n-type behavior in Fe-doped tetrahedrite at low temperature, D. P. Weller, G. E. Kunkel, A. M. Ochs, D. T. Morelli, and Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Magnetically Sensitive Radical Photochemistry of Non-natural Flavoproteins, Tilo M. Zollitsch, Lauren E. Jarocha, Chris Bialas, Kevin B. Henbest, Goutham Kodali, P. Leslie Dutton, Christopher C. Moser, Christiane R. Timmel, P. J. Hore, and Stuart R. Mackenzie
Submissions from 2017
High pressure mass spectrometry of volatile organic compounds with ambient air buffer gas, Kenion H. Blakeman; Craig A. Cavanaugh; William M. Gilliland, Jr.; and J. Michael Ramsey
Tailoring the nanoscale morphology of HKUST-1 thin films via codeposition and seeded growth, Landon J. Brower, Lauren K. Gentry, Amanda L. Napier, and Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Antimalarial Properties of Simplified Kalihinol Analogues, Mary Beth Daub, Jacques Prudhomme, Choukri Ben Mamoun, Karine G. Le Roch, and Christopher D. Vanderwal
General Approaches to Structurally Diverse Isocyanoditerpenes, Mary Beth Daub, Philipp C. Roosen, and Christopher D. Vanderwal
N-Gemini peptides: cytosolic protease resistance via N-terminal dimerization of unstructured peptides, Effrat L. Fayer; William M. Gilliland, Jr.; J. Michael Ramsey; Nancy L. Allbritton; and Marcey L. Waters
Coupling Microchip Electrospray Ionization Devices with High Pressure Mass Spectrometry, William M. Gilliland, Jr.; J. Scott Mellors; and J. Michael Ramsey