Parish awarded at Colloquy
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, received the 2025 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
Faculty Accomplishments
Carpenter-Swanson and students publish on antiseizure effects in zebrafish
Colleen Carpenter-Swanson, assistant professor of Biology, along with students, Audrey Breckenridge, '25, Sanskriti Basnyat, '26, and Eva Fitch, '25, published “Validating the antiseizure effects of vitexin and related flavone glycosides in zebrafish” in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
Pollock, Zizzamia, and student publish biochemistry interactive map
Julie Pollock, associate professor of chemistry and Beth Zizzamia, Spatial Analysis Lab GIS operations manager, along with Hannah Parker '23, published "An Online Interactive Map of Human Metabolic Pathways and Associated Genetic Disorders as a Tool for the Biochemistry Classroom" in the Journal of Chemical Education.
Quintero-Carmona and Warrick publish with students on cell gene expression
Omar Quintero-Carmona, associate professor of biology, and John Warrick, associate professor of biology published "Transcriptomic Analysis of CAD Cell Differentiation" in MicroPublication Biology, along with students Lillie Wendt '26, Carlos Cevallos, '17, Anna Leigh White, '20, Brooke Fazio, '21 and GC '22, Jasmine Feng, '20, and Dora Posfai, '13.
Peters received NSF award for neuroscience research
John Peters, a biology professor at the University of Richmond, has received a National Science Foundation award to support his neuroscience research on the mechanisms of learning and memory.
Parish and students published in Journal of Computational Chemistry
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with students Joshua Pandian, '23, Khanh Vu, '23, Anna Parker, '11, Christine Ancajas, '20, Diomedes Saldana-Greco, '10, and Tabitha Yewer, '14, published “A Highly Correlated, Multireference Study of the Lowest Lying Singlet and Triplet States of the Four Thiophene Diradicals” in the Journal of Computational Chemistry.
Parish and students published in Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with student Zhijian Chen, ’24, published “Thermal Decomposition of 2-cyclopentenone” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Parish and students published in Journal of Chemical Physics
Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with students Zhijian Chen, ’24, Sebastian Mendoza-Gomez, ’24, Jean Evelyn Azar-Tanguay, ’23, Christine Ancajas, ’20, and former Parish lab post-doc Dominic A. Sirianni published “A spin-flip study of the diradical isomers of pyrrole, furan and thiophene” in Journal of Chemical Physics.
Carpenter-Swanson recognized for community service
Colleen Carpenter-Swanson, assistant professor in biology, was named to the Serve Virginia Honor Roll in recognition of service in Virginia and the University of Richmond.