Professor of Chemistry
Education:
Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, New
Mexico
State University, Las Cruces, 1984
B.A.Chemistry, University of
New
Mexico, Albuquerque, 1976
Experience:
Postdoctoral (with M.K.
DeArmond),
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1984-1985
Research: Chemical
Education
Investigating Solubility and
Precipitation
with Cooperative Activities, M.L. Arthur, ChemEd ‘01, York
University,
Toronto, Ontario, July 2001.
Showcase Puzzles: Writing
Assignments
Based on Slowly-Changing Systems, M.L. Arthur, J.D. Weidenhamer, 16th
Biennial
Conference on Chemical Education,
University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor,
MI, August 2000.
A Laboratory-Based Collaboration between a Middle School and University, M. L. Arthur, Chem Ed ‘99, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, August 1999.
Writing Assignments and
Cooperative
Learning Exercises for a General Chemistry Course, M.L. Arthur, 13th
Biennial
Conference on Chemical Education, Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA,
August
1994.
Changing Science Teaching Practices, S. B. Battison and M. L. Arthur, Eastern Education Research Association's Annual Conference, Sarasota, FL, February 1994.
A Qualitative Assessment of
K-8 Hands-On
Workshops, M.L. Arthur and S.B. Battison, American Chemical Society
Central
Regional Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA,
October 1993.
Office: 419 Kettering
Email: marthur@ashland.edu
Dr. Robert G. Bergosh
Assistant Professor of
Chemistry
Education:
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, University of Kentucky, 2002
B.S. Chemistry & Biology, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1994
Experience:
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ashland University, 2005-2006)
Postdoctoral Research
Associate
(Virginia Commonwealth University, 2004-2005)
Postdoctoral Research
Associate
(RTI International, 2002-2004)
Graduate Research Assistant
(University
of Kentucky, 1996-2002)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
(University
of Kentucky, 1995-1996)
“Alkylation of Dihydrofullerenes” Meier, M. S.; Bergosh, R. G.; Gallagher, M. E.; Spielmann, H. P.; Wang, Z., J. Org. Chem., 2002; 67, 5946-5952.
“A 13C INADEQUATE and HF-GIAO Study of C60H2 and C60H6 Identification of Ring Currents in a 1,2-Dihydrofullerene,” Meier, M. S.; Spielmann, H. P.; Bergosh, R. G.; Haddon, R. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 8090-8094.
“A Novel Synthesis of Branched High Molecular Weight (C40+) Long-Chain Alkanes,” Lehmler, H-J., Bergosh, R. G., Meier, M. S., Carlson, R. M. K., Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 2002, 66, 523-531.
“Reactivity, Spectroscopy, and Structure of Reduced Fullerenes,” Meier, M. S.; Spielmann, H. P.; Haddon, R. C.; Bergosh, R. C.; Gallagher, M. E.; Hamon, M. A.; Weedon, B. E. Carbon, 2000, 38, 1535-1538.
“Alkylation of C602- Generated From C60H2,” Meier, M. S.; Bergosh, R. G. Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Related Materials 1998, 6, 1103-1109.
“Dissolving Metal Reductions of Fullerenes,” Bergosh, R. G.; Meier, M. S.; Laske Cooke, J. A.; Spielmann, H. P.; Weedon, B. R. J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 7667-7672.
“The Lower Hydrides of C60 and C70,” Bergosh, R. G.; Meier, M. S.; Spielmann, H. P.; Wang, G.-W.; Weedon, B. R. In Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Related Materials 1997, 4, 240-245.
Office: 422 Kettering
Email: rbergosh@ashland.edu
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Education:
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1999
B.S. Chemistry, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1993
Postdoctoral Research Associate (University of Virginia, 1999-2001)
Graduate Research Assistant (University of Illinois, 1995-1999)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (University of Illinois, 1993-1995)
Research: Organic Synthesis
Corbin, P. S.; Zimmerman, S. C.; Thiessen, P. A.; Hawrluk, N. A.; Murray, T. J.
"Complexation-Induced Unfolding of Heterocyclic Ureas: Foldamers Equilibrate with Multiply Hydrogen-Bonded Sheetlike Structures” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, in press.
Corbin, P. S.; Webb, M. P.*; McAlvin, J. E.; Fraser, C. L. "Biocompatible Polyester Macroligands: New Subunits for the Assembly of Star-Shaped Polymers with Luminescent and Cleavable Metal Cores" Biomacromolecules 2001, 1, 100-100.
Corbin, P. S.; Zimmerman,
S. C. "Hydrogen-Bonded
Supramolecular Polymers" in
Supramolecular Polymers;
Ciferri,
A., Ed.; Marcel-Dekker, New York, 2000, 147-176.
Corbin, P. S.; Zimmerman,
S. C. "Complexation-Induced
Unfolding of
Heterocyclic Ureas: Formation
of
a Hydrogen-Bonded, Sheetlike Heterodimer"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122,
3779-3780.
Zimmerman, S. C.; Corbin,
P. S. "Heteroaromatic
Modules for Self-Assembly
Using Multiple Hydrogen Bonds"
Struct.
Bonding 2000, 96, 63-94.
Johnson, R. M.; Corbin, P. S.; Ng, C.; Fraser, C. L. "Poly(methyl methacrylates) with Ruthenium Tris-(bipyridine) Cores via NiBr2(PR3)2-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP)" Macromolecules 2000, 33, 7404-7412.
Smith, A. P.; Corbin, P.
S.; Fraser,
C. L. "An Improved Synthesis of Hydroxymethyl Bipyridines" Tetrahedron
Lett. 2000, 41(16), 2787-2789.
Kamieth, M.; Burkert, U.;
Corbin,
P. S.; Dell, S. J.; Zimmerman, S. C.; Klärner, F.-G.
“Molecular Tweezers as
Synthetic
Receptors: Molecular Recognition of Electron
Deficient Aromatic Substrates
by
Chemically-Bonded Stationary Phases” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 1999, 11,
2741-2749.
Corbin, P. S.; Zimmerman,
S. C. “Self-Association
without Regard to Prototropy. A
Heterocycle That Forms
Extremely
Stable Quadruply Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120,
9710-9711.
Meier, M. S.; Corbin, P. S.; Vance, V. K.; Clayton, M.; Mollman, M.; Poplawska, M. “Synthesis of Hydrogenated Fullerenes by Zinc/Acid Reduction” Tetrahedron Lett. 1994, 35(32), 5789-5792.
Office: 415 Kettering
Email: pcorbin@ashland.edu
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Education:
Ph.D. Bioanalytical Chemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign,
1999
B.S. Chemistry and Biology, Alderson-Broaddus College, 1994
Experience:
Postdoctoral Research, University of Virginia, 1999-2001
Courses taught:
General Chemistry,
Quantitative
Analysis, Biochemistry, Instrumental Analysis
Research:
Bioanalytical
Chemistry
R.W. Garden, J.V. Sweedler (2000) Heterogeneity within MALDI samples
as revealed by mass spectrometric imaging. Analytical Chemistry
72,
30-36.
S.S. Rubakhin, R.W. Garden, R.R. Fuller, J.V. Sweedler (2000)
Measuring
the peptides in individual organelles with mass spectrometry.
Nature
Biotechnology 18,
172-175.
L. Li, R.W. Garden, J.V. Sweedler (2000) Single-cell MALDI: a new tool for direct peptide profiling. Trends in Biotechnology 18, 151-160.
P.W.K. Ma, R.W. Garden, J.T. Niermann, M. O’Conner, J.V.
Sweedler, W.L.
Roelofs (2000) Characterizing the Hez-PBAN gene products in neuronal
clusters
with
immunochemistry and MALDI mass spectrometry. Journal of Insect
Physiology 46, 221-230.
L. Li, R.W. Garden, E.V. Romanova, J.V. Sweedler (1999) In
situ sequencing
of peptides from biological tissues and single cells and using
MALDI-PSD
analysis.
Analytical Chemistry 71, 5451-5458.
L. Li, R.W. Garden, P.D. Floyd, T.P. Moroz, J.M. Gleeson, J.V.
Sweedler,
L. Pasa-Tolic, R.D. Smith (1999) Egg-laying hormone peptides in the
Aplysiidae
family.
Journal of Experimental Biology 202, 2961-2973.
R.W. Garden, T.P. Moroz, J.M. Gleeson, P.D. Floyd, L. Li, S.S.
Rubakhin,
J.V. Sweedler (1999) Formation of N-pyroglutamyl peptides from N-Glu
and
N-Gln
precursors in Aplysia neurons. Journal of Neurochemistry 72,
676.
L. Li, T.P Moroz, R.W. Garden, P.D. Floyd, K.R. Weiss, J.V.
Sweedler
(1998) Mass spectrometric survey of interganglionically transported
peptides
in Aplysia.
Peptides 19, 1425-1433.
S.D. Painter, B. Clough, R.W. Garden, J.V. Sweedler, G.T.
Nagle (1998)
Characterization of Aplysia attractin, the first water-borne peptide
pheromone
in
invertebrates. Biological Bulletin 194, 120-131.
R.W. Garden, S.A. Shippy, L. Li, T.P. Moroz, J.V. Sweedler
(1998) Proteolytic
processing of the Aplysia egg-laying hormone prohormone.
Proceedings
of the
National Academy of Science 95, 3972-3977.
R.W. Garden, L.L. Moroz, T.P. Moroz, S.A. Shippy, J.V.
Sweedler (1996)
Excess salt removal with matrix rinsing: direct peptide profiling of
neurons
from marine
invertebrates using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Journal of Mass
Spectrometry 31, 1126-1130
Office: 416 Kettering
Email: rcorbin@ashland.edu
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Education:
Ph.D. Biophysical Chemistry, University of Pittsuburgh, 1999
B.S. Chemistry, Eastern Nazarene College, 1991
Experience:
Alkermes Inc(Drug-delivery systems), Cambridge MA, 1991-1993
Research: Biophysical
Chemistry
Mohney, B. K., Petri, E. T., Uvarova, V, Walker, G. C.
"Infrared and
Ultraviolet Circular Dichroism Studies of Thermally Induced Unfolding
of
Apomyoglobin", Applied Spectroscopy,
1999.
Mohney, B. K.; Wang, C.; Leecharoen, R.; and Walker, G. C. "Photoinduced Release of Nitric Oxide from S-nitrosoglutathione Characterized by Ultrafast Infrared and Visible Spectroscopy." Submitted to J. Am. Chem. Soc.1998.
Wang, C.; Mohney, B. K.; Akhremitchev, B. B.; and Walker, G. C. "Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Vibrational States Prepared by Photoinduced Electron Transfer in (CN)5FeCNRu(NH3)5-" submitted to J. Phys. Chem. 1998.
Wang, B. K. Mohney, R. Williams, J. T. Hupp, and G. C. Walker,
"Solvent
Control of Vibronic Coupling on Intervalence Charge Transfer Excitation
of (CN)5FeCNRu(NH3)5 - Revealed by Resonance Raman and Near Infrared
Absorption
Spectroscopy," J. Am. Chem. Soc.,1998,
120, 5848-5849.
Akhremitchev, B. K. Mohney, K. Marra, T. M. Chapman, and G. C. Walker "Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Hydration of Fluorinated Amide/Urethane Copolymer Film Surfaces", Langmuir, 1998, 14, 3976-3982.
Mohney, B. K.; Wang, C.; Leecharoen, R.; and Walker, G. C. "Nitric Oxide Binding and Photoinduced Release from Nitrosothiols of Albumin and Glutathione Characterized by Ultrafast Infrared and Visible Spectroscopy" Ultrafast Phenomena X, Eds, Zinth, W.; Elssasser, T.; Mourou, G.; Zewail, A., (Springer Verlag, New York, 1998).
Mohney, B. K. and Walker, G. C. "Conformational Restriction of
Cysteine-bound
NO in Bovine Serum Albumin Revealed by Circular Dichroism", J. Am.
Chem.
Soc., 1997, 119, 9311-9312.
Wang, C., Mohney, B. Akhremitchev, B. and Walker, G.C.
"Femtosecond
IR Spectroscopy of Optically Excited Molecules", in: Time Resolved
Vibrational
Spectroscopy VII, Ed.:
W. Woodruff (Los Alamos, 1997).
Wang, B. Mohney, B. Akhremitchev, and G. C. Walker,
"Femtosecond IR
Spectroscopy of Optically Excited Molecules", in : Time-Resolved
Vibrational
Spectroscopy VII, Ed.: W. Woodruff (Springer, Berlin, 1996).
Mohney, B.K.; Uvarova, V. and Walker, G. C. "A Comparison of Infrared and Ultraviolet Circular Dichroism Measures of Apomyoglobin Protein Folding States", in Proc. ICORS XV (Wiley, New York, 1996).
Akhremitchev, B, Wang, C., Mohney, B. K., and Walker, G.C. "Ultrafast Visible and Infrared Measurements of Solvent-Solute Coupling and Proton Transfer in Simple Liquids and Proteins" in Proc. ICORS XV p334, (Wiley, New York, 1996).
Office: 417 Kettering
Email: bmohney@ashland.edu
Professor of Chemistry
Education:
M.S., Analytical Chemistry, Louisiana State University, 1991
Ph.D., Biology, The University of South Florida, 1987
M.S., Agronomy, The Ohio State University, 1983
B.S., Chemistry, Ashland University, 1979
Experience:
Environmental Science Program Coordinator, Ashland University
Postdoctoral Researcher (with Nikolaus Fischer), Department of
Chemistry,
Louisiana State University, 1987-89.
Research: Natural Products (perennial shrubs of the Florida scrub community)
Fischer, N.H., G.B. Williamson, J. Weidenhamer and D.R. Richardson. 1994. In search of allelopathy in the Florida scrub: The role of terpenoids. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 20(6):1355-1380.Weidenhamer, J., M.A. Menelaou, F.A. Macias, N.H. Fischer,
D.R. Richardson
and G.B. Williamson. 1994. Allelopathic potential of menthofuran
monoterpenes
from
Calamintha ashei. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 20(12):3345-3359.
Weidenhamer, J., F. Macias, N. Fischer and G.
Williamson. 1993.
Just how insoluble are monoterpenes? Journal of Chemical Ecology,
19(8):1827-1835.
Weidenhamer, J. and J. Romeo. 1989. Allelopathic properties of
Polygonella
myriophylla: Field evidence and bioassays. Journal of Chemical Ecology,
15(7):1957-1970.
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Office: 420 Kettering
Email: jweiden@ashland.edu
