Grants

Our faculty work hard to secure external funding with which to support an active research program involving undergraduates.

2021

Organic Syntheses, Inc. Grant for Summer Research at an Undergraduate Institution, 2021 “Development of Mild Nickel-Catalyzed C–N Cross-Coupling Reactions Enabled by Modular Phosphinopyrrole Ligands” (Johnson)

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2021 “CAREER: Study and Design of Modular Aminophopshine Ligands for Cross-Coupling Reactions” (Johnson)

2020

Jeffress Memorial Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research, “Understanding the reduction of CO2 to methanol catalyzed by simple amines with a combined computational and experimental approach” (Norris, Parish)

National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Program, “Expansion of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry (MERCURY) via Addition of High Performance Computers” (Donald, Parish)

2019

NSF- RUI Award “Chemical Investigations into the Bioactivity of the DNA Lesion 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosin” (Hamm)

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (UNI), "Modular and Rational Design of Pyrrolyl Phosphine Ligands for Nickel Catalysis" (Johnson)

National Science Foundation, Convergence Accelerator Pilot“RAISE:C-Accel Pilot - Track A1 (Open Knowledge Network): MPrint-OKN,” (Parish)

2018

Jeffress Memorial Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research, "An Integrated Synthetic-Computational Approach to Developing a Quantitative Model for Proazaphosphatrane-Enabled Cross-Coupling" (Johnson, Donald)

National Science Foundation, Research at Undergraduate Institutions Program, "RUI: Characterizing Pyrolysis and Combustion Pathways for Asphaltene Model Compounds," (Parish)

Organic Syntheses Summer Research Grant "Rapid Construction of Furans from 3-Silylated Propargyl Carboxylates” (Downey).

2017

American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund, “Systems for CO2 Conversion to Value-Added Products with NADH Mimics” (Norris).

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, ”A Molecular Dynamics Atomistic Inquiry into the Driving Forces for Nano-Aggregation in Asphaltenes” (Parish)

The Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research, “Experimental and Computational Investigations of MEMO1 and its Role in Breast Cancer,” (Pollock, Parish)

2016

American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund, "New Reactivity Mediated by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate" (Downey).

Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (Donald).

Mary Louise Andrews Award for Cancer Research, Virginia Academy of Sciences “Development of a fluorescence-polarization assay to study MEMO1, a protein involved in breast cancer migration” (Pollock).

National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Program, “Addition of High Performance Computers for the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational ChemistRY (MERCURY)”, (Parish, jointly with faculty in the MERCURY consortium)

Research Corporation Collaborative Grant “Getting a Job at a Research Intensive Primarily Undergraduate Institution” (Hamm co-PI)

2015

National Science Foundation Research at Undergraduate Institution (RUI) Grant Reaction Acceleration, Mediation, and Catalysis by In Situ Silylation” (Downey)

2014

National Science Foundation – Research Undergraduate Institutions (RUI), "Xerogel-Based Amperometric Biosensors Incorporating Nanoparticle Networks - Adaptable Templates for Clinically Relevant Measurements", 9/2014 – 9/2017 (Leopold).

2013

Research Corporation Multi-Investigator Cottrell College Science Award “Structural investigations of DNA replication of analogues of the mutagenic nucleotide, 8-oxo-2´-deoxyguanosine” (Hamm and E. Wu)