European Journal of Organic Chemistry

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.

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."
Rebecca J. Whelan

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."
Susan M. Lunte

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."
Minae Mure

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.”
Michael A. Johnson

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.”
Steven A. Soper in his lab

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.”
Portrait of Brian Laird, man with brown hair

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.”
Timothy Jackson

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.”
Christopher Elles

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.”
Michael A. Johnson

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."
Timothy Jackson

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."
Heather Desaire

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."
Michael Johnson

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."
Marco Caricato

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."
Heather Desaire and students

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."
Dr. Cindy L. Berrie

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."
Dr. Steven Soper

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."
Dr. Ward Thompson

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."
Dr. Timothy Jackson