Faculty Highlights

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  Coppage and Leopold Article

  Chemistry Professors Ryan Coppage and Michael Leopold, with undergraduate co-authors published, "A Multi-Size Study of Gold Nanoparticle Degradation and Reformation in Ceramic Glazes" in the journal Gold Bulletin.

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  Leopold and Coppage Article

  Chemistry professors Ryan Coppage and Michael Leopold, with an undergraduate co-author, published a study entitled, "Sintering-Induced Nucleation and Growth of Noble Metal Nanoparticles for Plasmonic Resonance Ceramic Color," in the Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials.

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  Leopold and Pollock Article

  Chemistry professors Mike Leopold and Julie Pollock in collaboration with Prof. Will Case of Converse College, postdoctoral research Dr. Mulugeta Wayu, and undergraduate students have published "Functionalized carbon nanotube adsorption interfaces for electron transfer studies of galactose oxidase," in Bioelectrochemistry.

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  Downey Articles

  Chemistry professor Wade Downey, with undergraduate coauthors, published “One-Pot Enol Silane Formation-Alkylation of Ketones with Propargyl Carboxylates Promoted by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate” in the Journal of Organic Chemistry and “Chalcone and cinnamate synthesis via one-pot enol silane formation-Mukaiyama aldol reactions of ketones and acetate esters” in Tetrahedron Letters.

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  Parish Award

  Chemistry professor Carol Parish has received the American Chemical Society's 2019 Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution.

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  Pollock Articles

  In collaboration with researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, chemistry professor Julie Pollock has published two articles on toll-like receptor signaling inhibition in inflammatory pathways; 1. Identification of Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors based on selective activation of hierarchically acting signaling proteins, in Science Signaling and 2. "Triaryl pyrazole Toll-like receptor signaling inhibitors: Structure-activity relationships governing pan- and selective signaling inhibitors," in ChemMedChem.

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  Johnson Article

  Chemistry professor Miles Johnson published "Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes Invoked in C–N Cross-Coupling," in Organometallics.

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  Nolin Named Distinguished Educator

  Chemistry professor Kristine Nolin was named a 2018 University of Richmond Distinguished Educator.

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  Pollock Article

  Chemistry professor Julie Pollock, along with colleague Carol Parish and several UR undergraduates, has published "Analysis of MEMO1 Binding Specificity for ErbB2 Using Fluorescence Polarization and Molecular Dynamics Simulations," in Biochemistry.

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  Parish Grant

  Chemistry professor Carol Parish received a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, "RUI: Characterizing Pyrolysis and Combustion Pathways for Asphaltene Model Compounds."