
The Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award was renamed in 2014. Royce W. Murray, who counts among his many honors, was also the the 1988 Charles N. Reilley Awardee. The decision to change the name of the award was based on Professor Murray’s long history of outstanding and inspiring research and, importantly, his mentoring and supporting young electroanalytical chemists. The latter included his undergraduate and graduate research students, postdoctoral associates, colleagues at the University of North Carolina, and other scholars who visited his laboratory over a career that has spanned more than 50 years. In addition, Prof. Murray has given generously of his time to informally mentor three generations of young electrochemists who did not have a direct association with his research group. These activities have helped to ensure the vitality of the field of electrochemistry generally, and electroanalytical chemistry specifically.
Current Awardee – 2023
Jeffrey Dick earned a BS in Chemistry from Ball State University (2013) and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017 under Al Bard’s supervision. After a short postdoctoral appointment at UT in Kyle Miller’s genome integrity lab, Jeffrey started his independent career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July 2018. Over the past 4 years, Jeffrey’s group has developed new measurement tools to probe how chemistry changes in small volumes and how nature takes advantage of such changes for the genesis and propagation of life. In Summer 2022, Jeffrey moved his laboratory to Purdue University.
Award Nominations
Nominations should include a nomination letter describing the individual’s promise in the area of electroanalytical chemistry, at least one seconding letter of support, and a curriculum vitae for the nominee. All nomination materials will be retained by SEAC. Once nominated, an individual will be considered for the Murray Award without being re-nominated for three years, unless the nominee is more than ten years past awarding of their Ph.D. or other terminal degree. The retained nominations can be updated annually by the nominator as needed to best reflect the nominee’s accomplishments to date.
Nominations should be submitted as a single PDF attachment to the Award’s Committee Chair:
Award Sponsors
Awardee History
Year | Awardee | Institution |
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2023 | Jeffrey Dick | Purdue University |
2022 | Justin Sambur | Colorado State University |
2021 | Robbyn Anand | Iowa State University |
2020 | Martin Edwards | University of Utah |
2019 | Alex Martinson | Argonne National Laboratory |
2018 | Parastoo (Parry) Hashemi | University of South Carolina |
2017 | Joaquín Rodríguez-López | University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign |
2016 | Ryan White | University of Maryland |
2015 | Thomas Hamann | Michigan State University |
2014 | Stephen Maldonado | University of Michigan |
2013 | Bo Zhang | University of Washington |
2012 | Lane Baker | Indiana University at Bloomington |
2011 | Jill Venton | University of Virginia |
2010 | Christy Haynes | University of Minnesota |
2009 | not awarded | not awarded |
2008 | Shelley Minteer | Saint Louis University |
2007 | Mary Elizabeth Williams | Pennsylvania State University |
2006 | Keith Stevenson | University of Texas at Austin |
2005 | David Cliffel | Vanderbilt University |
2004 | Jeffrey Long | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory |
2003 | Julie Macpherson | University of Warwick (UK) |
2002 | Andy Hillier | University of Virginia |
2001 | Eric Bakker | Auburn University |
2000 | Merlin Bruening | Michigan State University |
1999 | Daniel Feldheim | North Carolina State University |
1998 | Greg Swain | Utah State University |
1997 | Ingrid Fritsch | University of Arkansas |
1996 | Lou Coury | Duke University |
1995 | Mark Anderson | Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
1994 | Adrian Michael | University of Pittsburgh |
1993 | Leonidas Bachas | University of Kentucky |
1993 | Werner Kuhr | University of California - Riverside |