Sutton Family Research Impact Award

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Helena Malinakova on receiving the February 2025 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in the Journal of Chemical Education and is titled “Longitudinal Study of Students’ Study Approaches in Organic Chemistry Classes: Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to Detect a Response Shift in Data from the OCH-Adjusted M-ASSIST Instrument.”

J. Chem. Educ. 2025, 102, 1, 15-26

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor James Blakemore on receiving the January 2025 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! His winning paper was published in Chemistry – A European Journal and is titled “PCET-Driven Reactivity of Neptunyl(VI) Yields Oxo-Bridged Np(V) and Np(IV) Species.”

Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31, e202402963.

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Distinguished Professor Sue Lunte on receiving the December 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in Electrophoresis and is titled “Development of capillary electrophoresis methods for detection of microbial metabolites on potential future spaceflight missions.”

Electrophoresis 2024; 45:1684-1691

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Assistant Professor Rachael Farber on receiving the November 2024 Sutton Family Research Impact Award! Her winning paper was published in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A and is titled “Influence of hydrogen-bonded 3-mercaptopropionic acid bilayers on binary self-assembled monolayer formation.”

J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 42, 63205 (2024)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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.”

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."

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."

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."

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."