Grants
Our faculty work hard to secure external funding with which to support an active research program involving undergraduates. In the last five years the faculty in the chemistry department at the University of Richmond have raised over $2.5 million.
2008
National Institutes of Health/NCI (AREA Program), “The Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Pyrrole Containing Marine Natural Products”, 02/01/2008 to 01/31/2011 (Gupton)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Type SUMR Program, (Parish)
The Jeffress Foundation renewal, “Potential Anti-cancer Warhead Drugs: A Theoretical Investigation of the Electronic Nature of Enediyne Cyclizations,” (Parish)
2007
Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust - Renewal "Genetically engineered protein biosensors for glutamate: an important human neurotransmitter" ()
National Science Foundation, "Stability and structure of temperate and tropical marine sponge symbiont communities in response to climate change" (M. Hill, A. Hill and )
Research Corporation, "A Tandem Enol Silane Formation-Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction: Controlling Cationic Silicon" (Downey)
Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, "Studies into the base pairing, repair and replication of the prominent promutagen 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine using modified nucleotides" (Hamm)
Merck-AAAS Summer Undergraduate Science Research Program (Gentile, Parish, Bell, , Hill, Hill, Gindhart, Kingsley)
NSF MRI, "MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Creation of a Regional Undergraduate Biophysical Chemistry Research Cluster" (Gentile, , Bell, Smith)
2006
Research Corporation, "Design of novel fluorescent protein biosensors" ()
Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust - Renewal "Genetically engineered protein biosensors for glutamate: an important human neurotransmitter" ()
Jeffress Trust - Renewal "The Development of New Stereoselective Intramolecular Pericyclic Reactions" (Downey)
Commonwealth Health Research Board, Crown-Ether Modified Nanoparticle Films As Metal Ion Sensing Materials (Leopold)
Jeffress Trust - Renewal, "Potential Anti-cancer Warhead Drugs: A Theoretical Investigation of the Electronic Nature of Enediyne Cyclizations" (Parish)
2005
Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust, "Genetically engineered protein biosensors for glutamate: an important human neurotransmitter" ()
University of Richmond Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Committee "A New Stereoselective Claisen Rearrangement" (Downey)
Jeffress Trust "The Development of New Stereoselective Intramolecular Pericyclic Reactions" (Downey)
National Science Foundation CAREER award, "Macromolecular recognition and differential ion channel functioning" (Gentile)
The Bellingham Chapter of the Alzheimer's Society summer fellowship, "Biophysical and chromatographic characterization of presenilin-nicastrin interaction in the γ-secretase complex" (Preecs and Gentile)
Amgen summer fellowship, "Biophysical and chromatographic characterization of presenilin-nicastrin interaction in the γ-secretase complex" (Preecs and Gentile)
National Institutes of Health-AREA Program, "A Combination Strategy for Pyrrole Containing Alkaloids"(Gupton)
American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund - Type G Research Grant, Nanoparticle Platforms For Controlled Protein Adsorption and Behavior in Protein Monolayer Electrochemistry (Leopold)
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award, "Computational Investigations of Biologically Important Systems" (Parish)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Type SRF, "A Computational Investigation of Molecular Recognition and Binding Free Energies in Host Guest Systems" (Parish)
National Science Foundation Research Opportunity Award (ROA), "Cycloaromatization of arenediynes" (Parish)
Jeffress Foundation, "Potential Anti-cancer Warhead Drugs: A Theoretical Investigation of the Electronic Nature of Enediyne Cyclizations" (Parish)
National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program, "Acquisition of a Linux Cluster for the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational ChemistRY (MERCURY)" (Parish; jointly with faculty at Connecticut, Hamilton, Mount Holyoke, Truman State, Westminster, Rhode Island and Wooster)
2004
The Bellingham Chapter of the Alzheimer's Society summer fellowship, "Biophysical characterization of presenilin-1 and selected Alzheimer's Disease mutants" (Jeppesen and Gentile)
Amgen summer fellowship, "Biophysical characterization of presenilin-1 and selected Alzheimer's Disease mutants" (Jeppesen and Gentile)
The Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust, "Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Dicopper Compounds for Use as Electrocatalysts in the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide" (Goldman)
National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates - Supplement to RUI, "Cycloaromatization of arenediynes" (Parish)
Patchett Foundation, "Summer Undergraduate Scholars" (Parish)
2003
National Institutes of Health AREA, "Structural differences between wild-type and pathogenic presenilin mutant" (Gentile)
American Chemical Society GB Program, "Probing protein-steroid interactions" (Gentile)
National Science Foundation - Major Research Instrumentation, "Acquisition of a Mass Spectrometer for Undergraduate Research" (Michelle Hamm, with Bell, Dominey, Gupton)
American Chemical Society - PRF Type G Grant, "Synthesis and Oligonucleotide Incorporation of Two 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine Analogues" (Hamm)
National Science Foundation - CAREER Award, "Chemical Investigations in the Bioactivity of the Damaged DNA Nucleotide 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine" (Hamm)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Type B, "A Computational Investigation of Molecular Recognition," (Parish)
National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates - Supplement to RUI, "Cycloaromatization of arenediynes" (Parish)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund UFS (Undergraduate Faculty Sabbatical) "A Theoretical Investigation of the Electronic Nature of the Bergman Cyclization in Ten-Membered Enediynes," (Parish)
Patchett Foundation, "Summer Undergraduate Scholars," (Parish)
2002
National Science Foundation MRI award, "MRI/RUI: Acquisition of a 500-MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer at Western Washington University" (Vyvyan, Gentile, Wicholas)
Zymogenetics summer fellowship, "Mapping neurosteroid binding sites of the NMDA receptor" (Knight and Gentile)
Immunex summer fellowship, "Structural studies of neurosteroid binding to ionotropic glutamate receptors" (Spivak and Gentile)
Council on Undergraduate Research summer fellowship, "Structural analysis of the transmembrane spanning 6/7 loop of presenilin-II" (Fung and Gentile)
Jeffress Memorial Trust, "The Application of β-Chloroenones to the Synthesis of Lamellarin G Trimethyl Ether and Related Alkaloids"(Gupton)
Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award, "Investigations into the Base Pairing and Enzyme Recognition of 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine through the use of Nucleotide Analogues" (Hamm)
Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust, Biologically Enhanced Metallic Nanoparticles - The Next Dimension of Protein Monolayer Electrochemistry (Leopold)
National Science Foundation Research at Undergraduate Institutions, "Cycloaromatization of arenediynes" (Parish; jointly with K.C. Russell at Northern Kentucky University)