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 2007
Computational design and experimental discovery of an antiestrogenic peptide derived from alpha-fetoprotein, Karl N. Kirschner, Katrina W. Lexa, Amanda M. Salisburg, Katherine A. Alser, Leroy C. Joseph, Thomas T. Andersen, James A. Bennett, Herbert I. Jacobson, and George C. Shields
The search for low energy conformational families of small peptides: Searching for active conformations of small peptides in the absence of a known receptor, Katrina W. Lexa, Katherine A. Alser, Amanda M. Salisburg, Damien J. Ellens, Lorena Hernandez, Sam J. Bono, Heather C. Michael, Jennifer R. Derby, Jaime G. Skiba, Steven Feldgus, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Reaction of Cl with CD4 excited to the second C-D stretching overtone, Marion R. Martin, Davida J.A. Brown, Albert S. Chiou, and Richard N. Zare
AFM Studies of Corona Treated Biaxially Oriented PET Film, Cody R. Morelock, Yamin Htet, Laura L. Wright, and E. Culbertson
N N-Formamido-Containing Mono- and Diheterocyclic Pyrrole- and Imidazole-2-carboxylic Acids as Building Blocks for Polyamide Synthesis, Keith Mulder, Jim S. Sexton, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Justin B. Jones, Peter B. Uthe, Toni Brown, and Moses Lee
The poly(A)-dependent transcriptional pause is mediated by CPSF acting on the body of the polymerase, Anita Nag, Kazim Narsinh, and Harold G. Martinson
Sequence recognition in the minor groove of DNA by covalently linked formamido imidazole-pyrrole-imidazole polyamides: effect of H-pin linkage and linker length on selectivity and affinity, Caroline O'Hare, Peter B. Uthe, Hilary Mackay, Kevin N. Blackmon, Justin B. Jones, Toni Brown, Binh Nguyen, W. D. Wilson, Moses Lee, and John A. Hartley
Ag Nanocluster Formation Using a Cytosine Oligonucleotide Template, Caroline M. Ritchie, Kenneth R. Johnsen, John R. Kiser, Yasuko Antoku, Robert M. Dickson, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Design, Synthesis and Biological Testing of Cyclohexenone Derivatives of Combretastatin-A4, Jennifer Ruprich, Andrew Prout, John Dickson, Brent Younglove, Lawrence Nolan, Khyati Baxi, Regan LeBlanc, Lori Forrest, Patrice Hills, Herman L. Holt, Hilary Mackay, Toni Brown, Susan L. Mooberry, and Moses Lee
Optical control of ground-state atomic orbital alignment: Cl(2P3/2) atoms from HCl(v=2,J=1) photodissociation, Dimitris Sofikitis, Luis Rubio-Lago, Marion R. Martin, Davida J.A. Brown, Nathaniel C.-M Bartlett, Andrew J. Alexander, Richard N. Zare, and T. P. Rakitzis
Preparation of highly polarized nuclei: Observation and control of time-dependent polarization transfer from H35Cl molecular rotation to 35Cl nuclear spin, Dimitris Sofikitis, Luis Rubio-Lago, Marion R. Martin, Davida J.A. Brown, Nathaniel C.-M Bartlett, Richard N. Zare, and T. P. Rakitzis
Nanostructures using self-assembled multilayers as molecular rulers and etch resists, Charan Srinivasan, J. Nathan Hohman, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
Scanning Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Chemical Patterns, Charan Srinivasan, Thomas J. Mullen, J. Nathan Hohman, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Arrelaine A. Dameron, Anne M. Andrews, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
Ab initio thermochemistry of the hydrogenation of hydrocarbon radicals using silicon-, germanium-, tin-, and lead-substituted methane and isobutane, Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill, Ralph C. Merkle, and Robert A. Freitas
Effects of steric constraint on chromium(III) complexes of tetraazamacrocycles, 4: Comparison of the trans-difluoro-complexes of tet a, 1,4-C2-cyclam, and 1,11-C3-cyclam, Michael T. Vagnini, W. C. Rutledge, Chuanjiang Hu, Donald G. VanDerveer, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Submissions from 2006
Do Hydroxyl Radical-Water Clusters, OH(H2O)n, n=1-5, Exist in the Atmosphere?, Marco A. Allodi, Meghan E. Dunn, Jovan Livada, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Exploration of the Potential Energy Surfaces, Prediction of Atmospheric Concentrations, and Prediction of Vibrational Spectra for the HO2···(H2O)n (n = 1-2) Hydrogen Bonded Complexes, K. S. Alongi, T. S. Dibble, George C. Shields, and Karl N. Kirschner
Hybrid Approaches to Nanolithography: Photolithographic Structures with Precise, Controllable Nanometer‐Scale Spacings Created by Molecular Rulers, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, M. Mihok, H. Tanaka, Lim-Piu Tan, Mark W. Horn, G. S. McCarty, and Paul S. Weiss
Combining Conventional Lithography with Molecular Self‐Assembly for Chemical Patterning, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Charan Srinivasan, J. Nathan Hohman, E. M. Carter, Mark W. Horn, and Paul S. Weiss
Hybrid correlation models based on active-space partitioning: Seeking accurate O(N5) ab initio methods for bond breaking, Arteum D. Bochevarov, Berhane Temelso, and C. David Sherrill
Physical and structural basis for the strong interactions of the -ImPy- central pairing motif in the polyamide f-ImPyIm, Karen L. Buchmueller, Suzanna L. Bailey, David A. Matthews, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Janna K. Register, Zachary S. Davis, Chrystal D. Bruce, Caroline O'Hare, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
H + CD4 abstraction reaction dynamics: excitation function and angular distributions, Jon P. Camden, Wenfang Hu, Hans A. Bechtel, Davida J.A. Brown, Marion R. Martin, Richard N. Zare, György Lendvay, Diego Troya, and George C. Schatz
Synthesis and Cytotoxic Properties of Chalcones: An Interactive and Investigative Undergraduate Laboratory Project at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology, John Dickson, Lloyd V. Flores, Michelle Stewart, Regan LeBlanc, Hari N. Pati, Moses Lee, and Herman L. Holt
Prediction of Accurate Anharmonic Experimental Vibrational Frequencies for Water Clusters, (H2O)n, n=2-5, Meghan E. Dunn, Timothy M. Evans, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Synthesis and evaluation of an intercalator-polyamide hairpin designed to target the inverted CCAAT box 2 in the topoisomerase IIα promoter, Lloyd V. Flores, Andrew M. Staples, Hilary Mackay, Cameron M. Howard, Peter B. Uthe, Jim S. Sexton, Karen L. Buchmueller, W. D. Wilson, Caroline O'Hare, Jerome Kluza, Daniel Hochhauser, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee