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 2010
Atmospheric Implications for Formation of Clusters of Ammonium and 1-10 Water Molecules, Thomas E. Morrell and George C. Shields
DNA Encapsulation of Ten Silver Atoms Produces a Bright, Modulatable, Near Infrared-Emitting Cluster, Jeffrey T. Petty, Chaoyang Fan, Sandra P. Story, Bidisha Sengupta, Ashlee St. John Iyer, Zachary D. Prudowsky, and Robert M. Dickson
Creating a Comprehensive Summer Undergraduate Research Program Despite Fiscal Challenges, George C. Shields
Using Pre-College Research to Promote Student Success and Increase the Number of Science Majors, George C. Shields
Accurate Predictions of Water Cluster Formation, (H20)n=2-10, Robert M. Shields, Berhane Temelso, Kaye A. Archer, Thomas E. Morrell, and George C. Shields
Measurement of both the equilibrium constant and rate constant for electronic energy transfer by control of the limiting kinetic regimes, Michael T. Vagnini, W. C. Rutledge, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Effect of ancillary ligands on the DNA interaction of Cr(diimine)3]3+ complexes containing the intercalating dipyridophenazine ligand, M. S. Vandiver, E. P. Bridges, Ryan L. Koon, Alex N. Kinnaird, Jeff W. Glaeser, Jennifer F. Campbell, Christopher J. Priedemann, William T. Rosenblatt, Brad J. Herbert, Sandra K. Wheeler, John F. Wheeler, and Noel Kane-Maguire
A Major Determinant of Cyclophilin Dependence and Cyclosporine Susceptibility of Hepatitis C Virus Identified by a Genetic Approach, Feng Yang, Jason M. Robotham, Henry Grise, Stephen Frausto, Vanesa Madan, Margarita Zayas, Ralf Bartenschlager, Margaret Robinson, Andrew E. Greenstein, Anita Nag, Timothy M. Logan, Ewa Bienkiewicz, and Hengli Tang
Submissions from 2009
Alpha-fetoprotein peptides and uses thereof, Thomas T. Andersen, James A. Bennett, Herbert Jacobson, George C. Shields, and Karl N. Kirschner
Structural studies of a trinucleotide repeat sequence using 2-aminopurine, Natalya N. Degtyareva, Michael J. Reddish, Bidisha Sengupta, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Long-term and acute effects of zinc contamination of a stream on fish mortality and physiology, Andrea Giardina, Sandra E. Larson, Brian Wisner, John F. Wheeler, and Matthew Chao
Antiestrogenic and anticancer activities of peptides derived from the active site of alpha-fetoprotein, Leroy C. Joseph, James A. Bennett, Karl N. Kirschner, George C. Shields, John Hughes, Nicole Lostritto, Herbert I. Jacobson, and Thomas T. Andersen
Preparation, characterization, and sensing behavior of polydiacetylene liposomes embedded in alginate fibers, Jennifer S. Kauffman, Brett M. Ellerbrock, Kathryn A. Stevens, Philip J. Brown, William T. Pennington, and Timothy W. Hanks
Orthogonal Reactivity of Metal and Multimetal Nanostructures for Selective, Stepwise, and Spatially-Controlled Solid-State Modification, Brian M. Leonard, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Karl D. Oyler, Ting-Hao Phan, and Raymond E. Schaak
Chemical measurements in Drosophila, Monique A. Makos, Nicholas J. Kuklinski, E. C. Berglund, Michael L. Heien, and Andrew G. Ewing
Ramachandran-Type Plots for Glycosidic Linkages: Examples from Molecular Dynamic Simulations Using the Glycam06 Force Field, Amanda M. Salisburg, Ashley L. Deline, Katrina W. Lexa, George C. Shields, and Karl N. Kirschner
DNA Templates for Fluorescent Silver Clusters and I-Motif Folding, Bidisha Sengupta, Kerianne Springer, Jenna G. Buckman, Sandra P. Story, Oluwamuyiwa Henry Abe, Zahiyah W. Hasan, Zachary D. Prudowsky, Sheldon E. Rudisill, Natalya N. Degtyareva, and Jeffrey T. Petty
Computational approaches for the design of peptides with anti-breast cancer properties, George C. Shields
Discovery and Development of a Small Molecule Library with Lumazine Synthase Inhibitory Activity, Arindam Talukdar, Meghan Breen, Adelbert Bacher, Boris Illarionov, Markus Fischer, Gunda Georg, Qi-Zhuang Ye, and Mark Cushman
Polydiacetylene-Based Liposomes: An "Optical Tongue" for Bacteria Detection and Identification., Matthew R. West, Timothy W. Hanks, and Rhett T. Watson
Submissions from 2008
Thermodynamics of the hydroxyl radical addition to isoprene, Marco A. Allodi, Karl N. Kirschner, and George C. Shields
On-Wire Conversion Chemistry: Engineering Solid-State Complexity into Striped Metal Nanowires using Solution Chemistry Reactions, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Matthew R. Buck, Ian T. Sines, Karl D. Oyler, and Raymond E. Schaak
Structural Studies of Enantiomers, Racemates, and Quasiracemates. 2-(3-Bromophenoxy)propionic Acid and 2-(3-Methoxyphenoxy)propionic Acid, Meghan E. Breen, Shella L. Tameze, William G. Dougherty, W. Scott Kassel, and Kraig A. Wheeler
Modifying the N-terminus of polyamides: PyImPyIm has improved sequence specificity over f-ImPyIm, Toni Brown, Hilary Mackay, Mark Turlington, Arden Sutterfield, Traci Smith, Alan Sielaff, Laura Westrate, Chrystal D. Bruce, Jerome Kluza, Caroline O'Hare, Binh Nguyen, W. D. Wilson, John A. Hartley, and Moses Lee
Experimental and Theoretical Study of the OH Vibrational Spectra and Overtone Chemistry of Gas-Phase Vinylacetic Acid, Meghan E. Dunn, George C. Shields, Kaito Takahashi, Rex T. Skodje, and Veronica Vaida