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
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
H + CD4 abstraction reaction dynamics: product energy partitioning, Wenfang Hu, György Lendvay, Diego Troya, George C. Schatz, Jon P. Camden, Hans A. Bechtel, Davida Brown, Marion R. J.A., and Richard N. Zare
Polydiacetylenes as probes for monitoring strain in blended films, Jennifer S. Kauffman, Angela Calchera, Sonia Behal, Timothy W. Hanks, Michael S. Ellison, and William T. Pennington
The conserved AAUAAA hexamer of the poly(A) signal can act alone to trigger a stable decrease in RNA polymerase II transcription velocity, Anita Nag, Kazim Narsinh, Amir Kazerouninia, and Harold G. Martinson
CCSD(T), W1, and other model chemistry predictions for gas-phase deprotonation reactions, Frank C. Pickard, Daniel R. Griffith, Skylar J. Ferrara, Matthew D. Liptak, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
Ortho effect in the Bergman cyclization: Electronic and steric effects in hydrogen abstraction by 1-substituted naphthalene 5,8-diradicals, Frank C. Pickard, R. L. Shepherd, A. E. Gillis, Meghan E. Dunn, Steven Feldgus, Karl N. Kirschner, George C. Shields, M. Alabugin Manoharan, and V. I.
Extensions of molecular ruler technology for nanoscale patterning, C. Srinivasan, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, E. M. Carter, J. Nathan Hohman, S. S.N. Bharadwaja, S. Trolier-McKinstry, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
Electrically isolated nanostructures fabricated using self-assembled multilayers and a novel negative-tone bi-layer resist stack, Charan Srinivasan, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, R. Jayaraman, Paul S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn
High-level ab initio studies of hydrogen abstraction from prototype hydrocarbon systems, Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill, Ralph C. Merkle, and Robert A. Freitas
Synthesis and Biophysical Testing of a Novel Pyrrole-Containing Polyamide-Benzamidine Hybrid, Mark Turlington, Hilary Mackay, W. C. Rutledge, Zarmeen T. Taherbhai, Binh Nguyen, David Wilson, and Moses Lee
Effects of steric constraint on Chromium(III) complexes of tetraazamacrocycles. 3. Insights into the temperature-dependent radiationless deactivation of the 2Eg (Oh) excited state of trans-Cr(N4)(CN)2]+ complexes, Michael T. Vagnini, Noel Kane-Maguire, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Synthesis and characterization of a highly topologically constrained tetraazamacrocyclic ligand, Rhett T. Watson, Chuanjiang Hu, Donald G. VanDerveer, Derek T. Musashe, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
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