Faculty members are excited to work on a variety of research projects with our students during the academic year and in the summer as part of the Rollins Student-Faculty Summer Scholarship Program.  For more information please contact individual members of the deparment at any time.

Current Student Research

Shalini Allam '13 is currently performing research at the Sanford-Burnham Research Insitute in fufillment of her Honors Thesis

Drs. Bernal and Martinez are collaborating with Chase Waldeck '13, Diana Cox '14, and Jaciel Ferrara '14 as part of the Rollins Student-Faculty Summer Scholarship Program.

Select Faculty Publications

Bernal, P. J., Water and Life in the International Year of Chemistry.  J. Chem. Educ., 2011, 88, 526-529.

Delp, S. A.; Goj, L. A.; Pouy, M. J.; Munro-Leighton, C.; Lee, J. P.; Gunnoe, T. B.; Cundari, T. R.; Petersen, J. L., Well-Defined Cu(I) Amido Complex and Aryl Iodides Reacting to Form Aryl Amines.  Organometallics, 2011, 30, 55-57.Goj, L. A., Widenhoefer, R. A.  Mechanistic Studies of Palladium-Catalyzed Diene Carbocyclizations; VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2011, 195 pages.

Gianni, D.; Taulet, N.; Zhang, H.; DerMardirossian, C.; Kister, J.; Martinez, L.; Roush, W.J.; Brown, S.J.; Bokoch, G.M.; Rosen, H. “A Novel and Specific NADPH Oxidase-1 (Nox1) Small- Molecule Inhibitor Blocks the Formation of Functional Invadopodia in Human Colon Cancer Cells” ACS Chem. Biol., 2010, 5, 981–99.

Gregor, R. W.; Goj, L. A., Solvent-Free Synthesis of 2,2’-Dinitrobiphenyl:  An Ullman Coupling in the Introductory Organic Laboratory.  J. Chem. Educ., 2011, 88, 331-333.

Gregor, R. W., Synthesis of Bisphenol Z:  an Organic Chemistry Experiment.  J. Chem. Educ., 2012, 89, 669-671.  

Ramos, E.I.; Krauth-Siegel, R. L.; Garza, K. M.; Bader, J.; Martinez, L.E.; Maldonado, R. A.; “2.3-diphenyl-1,4- Naphthoquinone: A Potential Chemotherapeutic Agent against Trypanosoma cruzi” J. Parasitology, 2009, 95(2), 461-6.

Reisner, B. A.; Stewart, J. L.; Williams, B. S.; Goj, L. A.; Holland, P. L.; Eppley, H. J.; Johnson, A. R., Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource Learning Objects in Organometallic Chemistry.  J. Chem. Educ., 2012, 89, 185-187.

Riley, K. J.; Rabinowitz, G. S.; Yario, T. A., Luna, J. M.; Darnell, R. B.; Steitz, J. A.  EBV and Human microRNAs Co-target Oncogenic and Apoptotic Viral and Human Genes During Latency.  EMBO J., 2012, 30, 2207-2221.

Riley, K. J.; Yario, T. A.; Steitz, J. A.  Association of Argonaute Proteins and microRNAs Can Occur After Cell Lysis.  RNA, 2012.  July 26 [EPub ahead of print]