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Westminster College
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Salt Lake City, UT 84105
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MERCURY
  
Computational chemistry faculty from undergraduate institutions across the US have formed a consortium known as the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate computational chemistRY (MERCURY). The consortium allows faculty and students access to state-of-the art computational power and numerous opportunities for student and faculty collaboration, mentoring and cross-fertilization.
MERCURY Consortium
 

Computational chemistry faculty George Shields (Hamilton College), Maria Gomez (Mount Holyoke College), Carol Parish (University of Richmond) and Marc Zimmer (Connecticut College) originally formed this consortium in 2000. The consortium received funds from the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation program (NSF-MRI) in 2002 to purchase two shared supercomputers located at Hamilton College: a 32-processor and an 8-processor SGI Origin 300. Since the formation of MERCURY, the consortium added Maria Nagan (Truman State University), Tricia Shepherd (Westminster College), Glenisson de Oliveira (Rhode Island College) and Wingfield Glassey (Hobart and William Smith). The consortium recently received additional NSF-MRI funding to build a Linux Beowulf Cluster.
 
  Annual MERCURY Conference
   
  The MERCURY Consortium annually organizes a national meeting focusing on undergraduate computational chemistry. Students and faculty benefit intellectually and socially from engaging in detailed scientific discussions with others. The ability to discuss science with others passionately engaged in the same subfield is a rare opportunity for an undergraduate and we anticipate that these exchanges will further our students' education and continue to encourage students' interest in pursuing graduate studies in chemistry.
   
  Amberlyn Peterson and Tricia D. Shepherd. "MD simulations of oligonucleotide duplexes of peptide nucleic acid" (2006)
 
  Hassan Hassan and Tricia D. Shepherd. "Hydration of model DNA decamers." (2005)
 
  Thomas Jerant and Tricia D. Shepherd. "Calculations of relative binding free energies for cyclin-dependent kinase 2 inhibitor." (2005)
 
  Rory P. Sandberg, Ashley K. Phillips, Ward H. Thompson and Tricia D. Shepherd. "Langevin simulations of solvation dynamics in nanometer-sized cavities." (2005)
 
  Ashley K. (Phillips) Tucker, Tricia D. Shepherd, and Ward H. Thompson. "Simulations of a charge transfer transition in a nanoconfined solvent." (2004)