{"id":13701,"date":"2015-11-03T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=13701"},"modified":"2015-11-03T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T18:33:13","slug":"crystal-technology-wins-professor-prestigious-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/crystal-technology-wins-professor-prestigious-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Technology Wins Professor Prestigious Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/10\/Harper-NSF-crystal-award.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13847 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/10\/Harper-NSF-crystal-award.jpg\" alt=\"Harper- NSF crystal award\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCF Department of Chemistry assistant professor, <a href=\"http:\/\/chemistry.cos.ucf.edu\/people\/harper-james\/\">James Harper, Ph.D<\/a>., recently applied for and received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/index.jsp\">National Science Foundation<\/a> (NSF) CAREER award.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded for\u00a0his research on &#8220;Developing Accurate Crystallography Without Diffraction.&#8221;, this award is the NSF\u2019s most prestigious award supporting junior faculty and will provide funding for a five-year period.\u00a0This funding will be used to support two Ph.D. students and to provide the resources needed to further develop an NMR crystallography program at UCF.<\/p>\n<p>This new research aims to address some of the most significant challenges that have yet to be solved in crystal structure prediction, including the inability of nearly all prediction software to accurately predict structure in flexible molecules and the failure of\u00a0all programs to account for uncertainty in atom positions. Dr. Harper\u2019s research will also explore the question of what kind of NMR data is most sensitive to crystal structure. The overall aim of the research is to significantly improve the ability of theoretical prediction software to create and select a correct structure from the hundreds of\u00a0candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214\">Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program<\/a> focuses on building a foundation that contributes to research and education. They focus on providing incentives to universities and increasing\u00a0participation of those traditionally underrepresented in\u00a0the\u00a0science and engineering fields. CAREER and the\u00a0National Science Foundation offers awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Harper&#8217;s work\u00a0will help advance crystal structure prediction and\u00a0the\u00a0success in this research will be demonstrated by\u00a0working with\u00a0crystal structures of certain cephalosporin antibiotics. These widely used prescription drugs are considered to be one of medicine\u2019s last defenses against serious infections. Yet, only one crystal structure has ever been reported for a cephalosporin despite the fact that they have been widely studied for over half a century and more than 60 cephalosporins are known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-wTl83gICc0\">Click here<\/a> to watch a video\u00a0describing Dr. Harper\u2019s research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCF Department of Chemistry assistant professor, James Harper, Ph.D., recently applied for and received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Awarded for\u00a0his research on &#8220;Developing Accurate Crystallography Without Diffraction.&#8221;, this award is the NSF\u2019s most prestigious award supporting junior faculty and will provide funding for a five-year period.\u00a0This funding will be used to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":13847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,35,38,4,39,13,25,29],"tags":[376,629,736,1016,1233,2433,2856,3457,3516,3592,3723],"class_list":["post-13701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-chemistry-departments","category-breaking-news","category-departments","category-faculty-news","category-news","category-staff-news","category-ucf-news","tag-awards-2","tag-chemistry","tag-college-of-sciences","tag-dr-james-harper","tag-faculty-early-career-development-career-program","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-research","tag-ucf","tag-ucf-college-of-sciences","tag-ucf-news-2","tag-university-of-central-florida"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crystal Technology Wins Professor Prestigious Award - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/crystal-technology-wins-professor-prestigious-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crystal Technology Wins Professor Prestigious Award - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UCF Department of Chemistry assistant professor, James Harper, Ph.D., recently applied for and received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. 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