Christopher Shugrue, assistant professor of chemistry, published “N-[3-(N-tert-Butoxycarbonylaminooxy)propyl]-2-[2-(3-butynylcarbonylamino)ethylthio]-1,3-benzothiazole-6-carboxamide” in Molbank along with students Gabbie Meisner, ’29, and Nora Veigas, ’28.
Michael C. Leopold, professor and Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chair of Chemistry, received the 2026 Omicron Delta Kappa, Epsilon Circle, Faculty Member of the Year Award.
Michael C. Leopold, professor and Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Chair of Chemistry, was one of 13 recipients to be awarded supplemental funding for their research program from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF).
Kelling Donald, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry, received the 2026 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
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.