Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award

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.

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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.

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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:

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Award Sponsors

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Awardee History

Year	Awardee	Institution
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