Sutton Family Research Impact Award
Every month the peer-reviewed papers published by chemistry faculty from the three previous months are reviewed by the Chemistry Department Chair and Associate Chairs and a winner is named. The monthly recipient of the Sutton Family Research Impact Award receives a cash prize of $500 and is featured on the departmental website.
October 2024 - Manar Shoshani
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Assistant Professor Manar Shoshani on receiving the October 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Dalton Transactions and is titled “Synthesis and characterization of NiAl-hydride heterometallics: perturbing electron density within Al-H-Ni subunits.”
Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 18932-18945
Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 18932-18945
September 2024 - Robert C. Dunn
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Robert C. Dunn on receiving the September 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Analytical Chemistry and is titled, “Photothermal Backscatter Interferometry for Enhanced Detection in Capillary Electrophoresis.”
Analytical Chemistry 2024, 96, 32, 13234-13241
Analytical Chemistry 2024, 96, 32, 13234-13241
August 2024 - Chris Elles
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Chris Elles on receiving the August 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Analytical Chemistry and is titled, “A Single-Shot Technique for Measuring Broadband Two-Photon Absorption Spectra in Solution.”
Analytical Chemistry, 96, 11121-11125 (2024)
Analytical Chemistry, 96, 11121-11125 (2024)
July 2024 - Marco Caricato
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Marco Caricato on receiving the July 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Chemistry – A European Journal and is titled, “Helicene Appended Benzothiadiazoles as Chiral Emitters.”
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202401413
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202401413
June 2024 - Misha Barybin
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Mikhail “Misha” Barybin on receiving the June 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Chemical Communications and is titled, “Tuning the redox profile of the 6,6’biazulenic platform through functionalization along its molecular axis.”
Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 5213
Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 5213
May 2024 - Steven A. Soper
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Steven A. Soper on receiving the May 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Lab on a Chip and is titled, “Detection and identification of single ribonucleotide monophosphates using a dual in-plane nanopore sensor made in a thermoplastic via replication.”
Lab Chip, 2024, 24, 2721-2735
Lab Chip, 2024, 24, 2721-2735
April 2024 - Ward Thompson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Ward Thompson on receiving the April 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Chemical Science and is titled, “A structure-dynamics relationship enables prediction of the water hydrogen bond exchange activation energy from experimental data.”
Chemical Science, 2024, 15, 2197-2204
Chemical Science, 2024, 15, 2197-2204
March 2024 - Rebecca Whelan
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Rebecca Whelan on receiving the March 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in Cancer Research Communications and is titled, “A Revised Molecular Model of Ovarian Cancer Biomarker CA125 (MUC16) Enabled by Long-Read Sequencing.”
Cancer Research Communications, 2024, 4, 253–263
Cancer Research Communications, 2024, 4, 253–263
February 2024 - James Blakemore and Ward Thompson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professors James Blakemore and Ward Thompson on receiving the February 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Their winning paper was published in The Journal of the American Chemical Society and is titled, “Mechanistic Basis of Conductivity in Carbon Dioxide-Expanded Electrolytes: A Joint Experimental-Theoretical Study.”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 2398–2410
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 2398–2410
January 2024 - Meredith Hartley
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Assistant Professor Meredith Hartley on receiving the January 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in the Journal of Proteome Research and is titled, “Lipidomic Analysis Reveals Differences in the Extent of Remyelination in the Brain and Spinal Cord.”
J. Proteome Res. 2023, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX
J. Proteome Res. 2023, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX
December 2023 - Brian Laird
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Brian Laird on receiving the December 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A and is titled, “Generation of Amorphous Silica Surfaces with Controlled Roughness.”
J. Phys. Chem. A., 127, 9831-9841 (2023)
J. Phys. Chem. A., 127, 9831-9841 (2023)
November 2023 - Misha Barybin
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Mikhail "Misha" Barybin on receiving the November 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Dalton Transactions and is titled, “Homoleptic complexes of isocyano- and diisocyanobiazulenes with a 12-electron, ligand-based redox capacity.”
Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 11419-11426
Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 11419-11426
October 2023 - Christopher Elles
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Christopher Elles on receiving the October 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Analytical Chemistry and is titled, “Broadband Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy with Stimulated Raman Scattering as an Internal Standard.”
Anal. Chem., 95, 13227-13234 (2023)
Anal. Chem., 95, 13227-13234 (2023)
September 2023 - Kristin Bowman-James
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Kristin Bowman-James on receiving the September 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in Chemistry – A European Journal as a Hot Paper and is titled, “Structural Insight on Supramolecular Polyion Salts: Inositol Hexaphosphate Enclosed in Cationic Macrocyclic Clusters.”
Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e20230174
Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e20230174
August 2023 - Ward Thompson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Ward Thompson on receiving the August 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B and is titled, “Relation between the Hydrated Electron Solvation Structure and Its Partial Molar Volume.”
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023, 127, 5941-5947
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023, 127, 5941-5947
July 2023 - Heather Desaire
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Heather Desaire on receiving the July 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in Cell Reports Physical Science and is titled, “Distinguishing academic science writing from humans or ChatGPT with over 99% accuracy using off-the-shelf machine learning tools.”
Cell Rep. Phys. Sci., 4 (2023), Article 101426
Cell Rep. Phys. Sci., 4 (2023), Article 101426
June 2023 - James Blakemore
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor James Blakemore on receiving the June 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in PNAS and is titled, “Mechanistic roles of metal- and ligand-protonated species in hydrogen evolution with [Cp*Rh] complexes.”
PNAS 120 (21) e2217189120
PNAS 120 (21) e2217189120
May 2023 - Robert C. Dunn
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Robert C. Dunn on receiving the May 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Electrophoresis and is titled, “Sample Plug Induced Peak Splitting in Capillary Electrophoresis Studied Using Dual Backscatter-Interferometry and Fluorescence Detection.” Electrophoresis 2023, 44, 549-557
April 2023 - James Blakemore
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor James Blakemore on receiving the April 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Inorganic Chemistry and is titled, “Molecular Influences on the Quantification of Lewis Acidity with Phosphine Oxide Probes.”
March 2023 - Paul Hanson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Paul Hanson on receiving the March 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry and is titled, “Total Synthesis of Sanctolide A and Formal Synthesis of (2S)-Sanctolide A.”
February 2023 - Rebecca J. Whelan
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Rebecca J. Whelan on receiving the February 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in ACS Omega and is titled "Simultaneous N-Deglycosylation and Digestion of Complex Samples on S-Traps Enables Efficient Glycosite Hypothesis Generation."
January 2023 - Susan M. Lunte
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Susan M. Lunte on receiving the January 2023 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in the Special Issue of Electroanalysis and honors the career and contributions of Theodore "Ted" Kuwana to the field of Electroanalytical Chemistry. It is titled "Separation and Detection of Tyrosine and Phenylalanine-derived Oxidative Stress Biomarkers Using Microchip Electrophoresis with Electrochemical Detection."
December 2022 - Minae Mure
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Minae Mure on receiving the December 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in International Journal of Molecular Science and is titled, "Insight into the Spatial Arrangement of the Lysine Tyrosylquinone and Cu2+ in the Active Site of Lysyl Oxidase-like 2."
November 2022 - Michael A. Johnson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Michael A. Johnson on receiving the November 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience and is titled, “Characterization of D3 Autoreceptor Function in Whole Zebrafish Brain with Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry.”
October 2022 - Steven A. Soper
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Steven A. Soper on receiving the October 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Science Advances and is titled, “Microfluidic affinity selection of active SARS-Co-V-2 virus particles.”
September 2022 - Brian Laird
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Brian Laird on receiving the September 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in the Journal of Chemical Physics and is titled, “Inside and out: Surface thermodynamics from positive to negative curvature.”
August 2022 - Timothy Jackson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Timothy Jackson on receiving the August 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and is titled, “C-H Bond Activation by a Mononuclear Nickel(IV)-Nitrate Complex.”
July 2022 - Christopher Elles
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Christopher Elles on receiving the July 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A and is titled, “Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics of Spatially Confined Organic Molecules.”
June 2022 - Michael A. Johnson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Michael A. Johnson on receiving the June 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and is titled, “Improved Serotonin Measurement with Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry: Mitigating Fouling by SSRIs.”
May 2022 - Timothy Jackson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Timothy Jackson on receiving the May 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper is published in the ChemElectroChem and is titled, "Electrochemical Formation and Reactivity of a Mn-Peroxo Complex Bearing an Amido N5 Ligand."
April 2022 - Heather Desaire
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Professor Heather Desaire on receiving the April 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper is published in the Journal of Proteome Research and is titled, "Exposing the Brain Proteomic Signatures of Alzheimer’s Disease in Diverse Racial Groups: Leveraging Multiple Data Sets and Machine Learning."
March 2022 - Michael Johnson
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Michael Johnson on receiving the March 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper published in the journal Analytical Chemistry is titled, "Optimized Sawhorse Waveform for the Measurement of Oxytocin Release in Zebrafish."
February 2022 - Marco Caricato
The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Marco Caricato on receiving the February 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry is titled, "Cluster Model Simulations of Metal-Doped Amorphous Silicates for Heterogeneous Catalysis."
January 2022 - Heather Desaire
The Department congratulates Dr. Heather Desaire on receiving the January 2022 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her team's research is titled "The opportunity cost of automated glycopeptide analysis: case study profiling the SARS-CoV-2 S glycoprotein."
December 2021 - Cindy L. Berrie
The Department congratulates Dr. Cindy L. Berrie on receiving the December 2021 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her team's research is titled "Atomic Force Microscopy-Based Static Plowing Lithography Using CaCO3 Nanoparticle Resist Layers as a Substrate-Flexible Selective Metal Deposition Resist."
November 2021 - Steven A. Soper
The Department congratulates Dr. Steven A. Soper on receiving the November 2021 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His team's research is titled "Label-Free Identification of Single Mononucleotides by Nanoscale Electrophoresis."
October 2021 - Ward Thompson
The Department congratulates Dr. Ward Thompson on receiving the October 2021 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His team's research is titled "Identical Water Dynamics in Acrylamide Hydrogels, Polymers, and Monomers in Solution: Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations."
September 2021 - Timothy Jackson
The Department congratulates Dr. Tim Jackson on receiving the September 2021 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His team's research is titled "Controlling the Reactivity of a Metal-Hydroxo Adduct with a Hydrogen Bond."