Christopher Shugrue, assistant professor of chemistry, received a summer research grant from Organic Syntheses for the project "Development of Oxidative-Ring Openings of Benzoxazoles for the Construction of Amido-Substituted Quinone Derivatives." Grants are awarded to faculty at principally undergraduate institutions who work with a student in their department.
Wade Downey, professor of chemistry, along with Eric Zhou, ’27, and Helen Xia, ’24, published “Friedel–Crafts Addition of 3-Alkylated Indoles to Aldehydes: 2-Hydroxyalkylation Promoted by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate” in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chair in Chemistry, along with students Marcos Hendler, ’25, and Travis Greene, ’23, and former postdoctoral research associate, Dominic A. Sirianni, published “The Effect of Chalcogen-Phosphorous Substituents on Enediynes Undergoing the Bergman Cyclization” in Inorganic Chemistry.
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chair in Chemistry, published “Instability of Octahedral Symmetry in Si8O12H8 and Ge8O12H8: Consequence of the Pseudo-Jahn-Teller Effect” in the Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials.
Michael C. Leopold and Carol Parish, professors and Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chairs of Chemistry, along with Ben Edelman, ‘27, Charlie Sheppard, ‘26, Arielle Vinnikov, ‘27, and Lucas Chuidian, ‘27 published “Design of Nanomaterial-based Sensors for Enhanced Halogen Bonding” in ACS Omega.
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chair in Chemistry, and Eugene Wu, associate professor of biology and biochemistry, published "Understanding the Fidelity and Specificity of DNA Polymerase I" in ACS Omega, along with Alexis Blake, ‘19, and Elise Tate, ‘19.
Christopher Shugrue, assistant professor of chemistry, along with Phoebe R. Rubio, ’26, Gavin A. Clausen, ’26, Zachary D. Ruighaver, ’26, Abigail F. Dalton, ’24, John Blobe, ’24, and Amanda L. Moore, ’26, published "Benzothiazole sulfones as a tool for peptide modification and cleavage" in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry.
Kelling Donald, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, published “Why are elements like radium dangerous? A chemist explains radioactivity and its health effects” in The Conversation.
Kelling Donald, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, along with student Brice Di Carlo, ’27, published “Chapter 10 - On the origins of local positive potentials on group 13 central atoms and the ouroboric cyclization of heteroorganic chains” in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.
Kelling Donald, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, along with students Donovan Hoilette, Jr., ‘25, and Gabriel F. Stewart, ’19, published “Sigma-hole-supported interactions in complexes of group 5 oxyhalides (MOX3) with insights for their extended solids” in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Julie Pollock, associate professor of chemistry, has received the 2025 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The Dreyfus Foundation is dedicated to advancing the chemical sciences and established the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award to support the research of outstanding early career faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions.
Michael C. Leopold, professor and Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chair of Chemistry, was awarded an Undergraduate Research Grant from the American Chemical Society.