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 2006
AFM Studies of Corona Treated Uniaxially Drawn PET Films, Laura L. Wright, Robert G. Posey, and E. Culbertson
Submissions from 2005
Utilizing self-assembled multilayers in lithographic processing for nanostructure fabrication: Initial evaluation of the electrical integrity of nanogaps, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Charan Srinivasan, Raviprakesh Jayaraman, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
Recognition of Specific DNA Sequences by Stacked Pyrrole- and Imidazole- Containing Polyamides: An Efficient Screening Method Based on Competitive Dialysis, Karen L. Buchmueller, Sarah M. Horick, Cameron M. Howard, Peter B. Uthe, Andrew M. Staples, Suzanna L. Bailey, N. M. Le, Kari K. Cox, James A. Henry, and Moses Lee
Extending the language of DNA molecular recognition by polyamides: unexpected influence of imidazole and pyrrole arrangement on binding affinity and specificity, Karen L. Buchmueller, Andrew M. Staples, Cameron M. Howard, Sarah M. Horick, Peter B. Uthe, N. M. Le, Kari K. Cox, Binh Nguyen, Kimberly A. O. Pacheco, W. D. Wilson, and Moses Lee
Molecular recognition of DNA base pairs by the formamido/pyrrole and formamido/imidazole pairings in stacked polyamides, Karen L. Buchmueller, Andrew M. Staples, Peter B. Uthe, Cameron M. Howard, Kimberly A. O. Pacheco, Kari K. Cox, James A. Henry, Suzanna L. Bailey, Sarah M. Horick, Binh Nguyen, W. D. Wilson, and Moses Lee
Design of a Hairpin Polyamide, ZT65B, for Targeting the Inverted CCAAT Box (ICB) site in the Multidrug rRsistant (MDR1) Gene, Karen L. Buchmueller, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Cameron M. Howard, Suzanna L. Bailey, Binh Nguyen, Caroline O'Hare, Daniel Hochhauser, John A. Hartley, W. D. Wilson, and Moses Lee
Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of achiral analogs of duocarmycin SA, Kristen Daniell, Michelle Stewart, Erik C. Madsen, Minh Le, Heather L. Handl, Natalie Brooks, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
Global Search for Minimum Energy (H2O)n Clusters, n=3-5, M. B. Day, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Pople's Gaussian-3 Model Chemistry Applied to an Investigation of (H2O)8 Water Clusters, M. B. Day, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Conducting polymers as substrates for surface-mounted molecular devices, Timothy W. Hanks, Laura Glish, Sarbjit Singh, David Johnson, and Laura L. Wright
Synthesis and Polymerization Behavior of Tridentate Diacetylene Hosts, Brian T. Holmes, Prasant Deb, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks
Reaction of Chalcones with Basic Hydrogen Peroxide: A Structure and Reactivity Stud, Herman L. Holt Jr., Regan LeBlanc, John Dickson, Toni Brown, Jessica R. Maddox, and Moses Lee
Hydration changes in the association of Hoechst 33258 with DNA, John R. Kiser, Richard W. Monk, Rondey L. Smalls, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Synthesis and cytotoxicity of epoxide and pyrazole analogs of the combretastatins, Regan LeBlanc, John Dickson, Toni Brown, Michelle Stewart, Hari N. Pati, Donald G. VanDerveer, Hadi D. Arman, Jeffery L. Harris, William T. Pennington, Herman L. Holt, and Moses Lee
Comparison of density functional theory predictions of gas-phase deprotonation data, Matthew D. Liptak and George C. Shields
Conformations and Binding Modes of 2,3,5,6-Tetra(2'-pyridyl)pyrazine, Clifford W. Padgett, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks
New Conformations and Binding Modes in Halogen-Bonded and Ionic Complexes of 2,3,5,6-Tetra(2'-pyridyl)pyrazine, Clifford W. Padgett, Rosa D. B. Walsh, Gregory W. Drake, Timothy W. Hanks, and William T. Pennington
Synthesis and Cytotoxic Properties of Nitro- and Aminochalcones, Hari N. Pati, Herman L. Holt, Regan LeBlanc, John Dickson, Michelle Stewart, Toni Brown, and Moses Lee
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of cis -Combretastatin Analogs and their Novel 1,2,3-Triazole Derivatives, Hari N. Pati, Martha Wicks, Herman L. Holt, Regan LeBlanc, Paul Weisbruch, Lori Forrest, and Moses Lee
Comparison of model chemistry and density functional theory thermochemical predictions with experiment for formation of ionic clusters of the ammonium cation complexed with water and ammonia; Atmospheric implications, Frank C. Pickard, Meghan E. Dunn, and George C. Shields
Comparison of CBS-QB3, CBS-APNO, G2, and G3 thermochemical predictions with experiment for formation of ionic clusters of hydronium and hydroxide ions complexed with water, Frank C. Pickard, E. K. Pokon, Matthew D. Liptak, and George C. Shields
Sequence specific recognition of DNA by tailor-made hairpin conjugates of achiral seco-cyclopropaneindoline-2-benzofurancarboxamide and pyrrole-imidazole polyamides, Carly A. Price, Brian M. Lingerfelt, Heather L. Handl, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
The RNA Tether from the Poly(A) Signal to the Polymerase Mediates Coupling of Transcription to Cleavage and Polyadenylation, Frank Rigo, Amir Kazerouninia, Anita Nag, and Harold G. Martinson
A novel class of in vivo active anticancer agents: achiral seco-amino- and seco-hydroxycyclopropylbenz[e]indolone (seco-CBI) analogues of the duocarmycins and CC-1065, Atsushi Sato, Luanne M. McNulty, Kari K. Cox, Susan Kim, Adrienne E. Scott, Kristen Daniell, Kaitlin Summerville, Carly A. Price, Stephen J. Hudson, Konstantinos Kiakos, John A. Hartley, Tetsuji Asao, and Moses Lee
Characterization of the X̃2Π and Ã2Σ+ Electronic States of the Phospaethyne cation (HCP+), Berhane Temelso, Nancy A. Richardson, Levent Sari, Yukio Yamaguchi, and Henry F. Schaefer