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Kansas State University

 

 

 

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Purdue University

 

 

 

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Université de Genève

 

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INIFTA, La Plata/Buenos Aires

 

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University of Fukui

 

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Monash University

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Tufts University

 

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Pine Research Instrumentation

 

 

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Issue Details

SEACommunications. 2023, 39(1), February

Published Online: February 19, 2023

Articles in this issue hide
1. President's Message
2. Nominations Sought for the 2024 Reilley Award and Murray Award
3. SEAC Election Results
4. 2023 - 2028 Board of Directors
4.1. Olja Simoska
4.2. Long Luo
4.3. Jeffrey Dick
5. Student Editor - Thanks, Junaid Ahmed!
6. SEAC Activities at Pittcon 2023 (March 16-22, 2023)
6.1. Sat. March 18 (all day)
6.2. Mon. March 20 (AM)
6.3. Mon. March 20 (evening)
6.4. Tues. March 21 (AM)
6.5. Tues. March 21 (PM)
6.6. Wed. March 22 (AM)
7. Related Events
7.1. Mon. March 20 (PM)
7.2. Tues. March 21 (PM)
7.3. SEAC Board of Directors Meeting (Virtual)
7.4. SEAC Student Group Meeting
7.5. SEAC – Charles N. Reilley and Royce W. Murray Awards Symposium
8. Presentation: Monday, March 20, 8:30am – 11:50am
8.1. SEAC General Membership Meeting
8.2. SEAC Reception and Dinner
8.3. SEAC Reception 2023
8.4. SEAC Dinner 2023
9. Bookings and Tickets
10. Member News
10.1. Joseph Wang
10.2. Netz Arroyo
10.3. Shelley Minteer
11. Upcoming Events and Meetings
11.1. 2023 CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry
12. Employment/Research Opportunities
13. Special Thanks to our Sponsors

President's Message

Carol Korzeniewski
Texas Tech University

Dear SEAC members,

Pittcon 2023 is just a few weeks away! Many SEAC activities are planned — all made possible by the hard work and coordinated efforts of several of our SEAC colleagues. The Week will kick-off on Saturday with the SEAC Student Group Meeting arranged by Lane Baker and Ashley Ross. In its third year, the activity is bringing together just over 40 students for a day of informal, group-meeting-style discussion of developing and just-breaking (albeit not well understood at this point!) research advances.

Then, we look forward to Monday morning’s SEAC Award symposium featuring talks by this year’s recipients of the Charles N. Reilley Award (Lane Baker) and Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award (Jeffrey Dick). Plan to attend the Monday evening reception and dinner honoring Lane and Jeffery, as well as our awardees from 2022 (Paul Bohn and Justin Sambur) and 2021 (Keith Stevenson and Robbyn Anand). Make a note — these awardees from the last two years when Pittcon was held online will give in-person presentations on Wednesday morning in the symposium Harnessing Chemistry at Electrified Interfaces for Advances in Chemical Analysis and Sensing.

On Tuesday, plan to visit the SEAC student posters and participate in the SEAC Student Session in Electroanalysis. Many thanks to Stephen Maldanodo, Martin Edwards, Scott Shaw and Phil Buhlmann for organizing these student activities.

Finally, remember to make room in your schedules for the Ralph N. Adams Award session recognizing SEAC member Joe Wang (Monday PM) and the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award session recognizing SEAC member Jeffrey Dick (Tuesday AM).

Before closing, I want to extend enthusiastic congratulations to our award recipients! I also want to recognize the behind-the-scenes work of our treasurer David Cliffel for ensuring we have sufficient flexibility to support SEAC’s Pittcon programming and related activities during the year, our webmaster Tim Paschkewitz for his expert planning of the award reception and dinner, and our secretary Maryanne Collinson for her timely email updates. Incidentally, watch for Tim’s new “SEAC Updates” feature that will provide us with regular electronic notifications of SEAC activities throughout the year. 

Then another sad note, many of us have wonderful memories of our interactions with Diane Smith, a longtime colleague and professor of chemistry at San Diego State University. Diane’s work advanced understanding of proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in electrochemistry. She was awarded the International Society of Electrochemistry’s Jaroslav Heyrovsky prize for Molecular Electrochemistry shortly before her unexpected passing on October 24, 2022. She will be greatly missed by our community.

I wish everyone the best and look forward to seeing many colleagues at Pittcon in Philadelphia in a few weeks. 

Carol Korzeniewski
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Nominations Sought for the 2024 Reilley Award and Murray Award

Nominations are requested for the Charles N. Reilley Award and the Royce W. Murray Award. Deadlines for the Reilley and Murray Awards are April 1, 2023. All nomination materials requested below should be emailed as a single pdf to:

Professor Richard M. Crooks
The Robert A. Welch Chair in Materials Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
The University of Texas, Austin
crooks@cm.utexas.edu

The Charles N. Reilley Award in Electroanalytical Chemistry is given in memory of one of the most distinguished analytical chemists of the 20th century. Reilley’s interests were both fundamental and broad; he made seminal contributions not only to electroanalysis, but also optical spectroscopy, NMR, chromatography, data analysis, instrumentation, and surface analysis.  Candidates may be nominated by any member of SEAC.

Nominations for the Reilley Award should include a letter of nomination describing the individual’s significant contributions to electroanalytical chemistry, at least two seconding letters of support, and a curriculum vitae for the individual.  All nomination materials will be retained by SEAC. Once nominated, the nominee will be considered for the Reilley Award for a total of three years without being re-nominated.  However, an updated vitae should be given to the chair of the award’s committee. The submission of additional supporting information or a re-nomination is welcome at any time prior to the 2024 award nomination deadline of April 1, 2023.

The Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award is named in honor of one of the most distinguished electroanalytical chemists in modern history and one who was particularly supportive of young scientists. Nominees for this award must be within ten years of receiving their Ph.D. or other terminal degree as of the nomination deadline. Candidates may be nominated by any member of SEAC.

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.

The decision for the 2024 Murray YI Award will be based upon the material that was available to the award committee by April 1, 2023.

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SEAC Election Results

Following the election that closed on 1/23/23, we are excited to announce the newly elected members to the board of directors, who will serve their term from 2023 to 2028:

Olja Simoska
University of South Carolina
Long Luo
Wayne State University
Jeffrey Dick
Purdue University

Welcome, Olja Simoska, Long Luo, and Jeffrey Dick!

We also want to show our gratitude for the SEAC members whose term on the board of directors comes to a close. Thank you for your service, Anne Co, Charles Henry, and Joaquín Rodríguez-López.

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2023 - 2028 Board of Directors

Get to know the recently elected SEAC Board members!

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Olja Simoska

Olja Simoska
University of South Carolina

Dr. Olja Simoska is an Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina. Previously, she was the 13th ACS Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellow, working in the research group of Professor Shelley D. Minteer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah (2020-2022). Olja received her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019, working under the mentorship of Professor Keith J. Stevenson. Olja has been the recipient of several awards, including the prestigious ACS Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship, ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship, Charles Morton Share Graduate Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, Hanze Teaching Award, and Ereztech BridgeForward Award, among others. Working in the areas of microbial electrochemistry, bioelectrochemistry, and electroanalysis, her main research focus is on developing and applying electrochemical methods for studying environments relevant to human health. Olja has expertise in the development of electrochemical sensors for detection and monitoring of human health biomarkers, as well as in the rational design of redox mediating systems to facilitate efficient electron transfer in bacteria. She has authored over 20 publications and delivered over 25 conference presentations, invited lectures, and seminars.

 

Long Luo

Long Luo
Wayne State University

Dr. Long Luo is currently the Carl R. Johnson Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Wayne State University. He received his B.S. (2009) in applied chemistry from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and his Ph.D. (2014) in chemistry from the University of Utah under the guidance of Prof. Henry S. White. Before joining Wayne State University in 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Richard M. Crooks at the University of Texas at Austin. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, National Institute of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), and Wayne State University Academy of Scholars Junior Faculty Award, and was selected as Chem Comm Emerging investigators, Anal. Bioanal. Chem. Young Investigators, Nanoscale Emerging Investigators, and a Langmuir inaugural Early Career Advisory Board Member. The research goal of his laboratory is to address the grand challenges of our times in environment, energy, and health by designing, discovering, synthesizing, and utilizing new functional materials and molecules and by developing novel analytical methods, tools, and device.

 

Jeffrey Dick

Jeffrey Dick
Purdue University

Jeffrey Dick earned a BS in Chemistry from Ball State University and a Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Allen J. Bard. Jeffrey began his independent career in 2018 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and moved to Purdue University in July 2022.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Student Editor - Thanks, Junaid Ahmed!

Junaid Ahmed
Virginia Commonwealth University

Junaid Ahmed has started to work for Intel this month.  We appreciate Junaid for his numerous contributions to the newsletter!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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SEAC Activities at Pittcon 2023 (March 16-22, 2023)

Sat. March 18 (all day)

SEAC Student Group Meeting (Lane Baker and Ashley Ross)

Mon. March 20 (AM)

SEAC Award session (Dick Crooks, Chair)

SEAC General Membership Meeting

Mon. March 20 (evening)

Reception and Dinner

Tues. March 21 (AM)

SEAC Student Poster Session (Scott K. Shaw and Philippe Buhlmann)

Tues. March 21 (PM)

SEAC Student Session in Electroanalysis (Martin Edwards and Stephen Maldonado)

Wed. March 22 (AM)

Symposium featuring 2021 and 2022 SEAC Awardees – Harnessing Chemistry at Electrified Interfaces for Advances in Chemical Analysis and Sensing) (Carol Korzeniewski and Bo Zhang, co-organizers)

Related Events

Mon. March 20 (PM)

Ralph N. Adams Award session (Joseph Wang, awardee)

Tues. March 21 (PM)

Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award session (Jeffrey Dick, awardee)

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SEAC Board of Directors Meeting (Virtual)

The 2023 meeting of the SEAC Board of Directors will be held:

• March 16, 2023

• 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

• Virtual

All current and former members of the Board are invited to attend.  An email with Zoom link will be sent out.  Contact Maryanne Collinson if you need the Zoom link/email reminder about the meeting.

SEAC Student Group Meeting

• The meeting will be held in Ballroom B of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA.

• The schedule will start at 10 am, break for 1.5 hours for lunch, and the scientific program will conclude at 6:35 pm.  Student social activities will be planned Saturday night for the SEAC Student Group
Meeting.  Faculty advisors are invited to attend (but not required), both for the science and evening events.

• This event should be informal and friendly, but serious scientifically. To set this stage, we ask everyone not to wear formal clothes. Please wear a sweatshirt or t-shirt that has your University name/logo on it so that you can all make connections quickly and start to build your electrochemical network.

• Questions/comments can be sent to Lane Baker, Texas A&M University or Ashley Ross, University of Cincinnati.

SEAC gratefully acknowledges Pittcon for support of this meeting.

SEAC – Charles N. Reilley and Royce W. Murray Awards Symposium

Presentation: Monday, March 20, 8:30am – 11:50am

Room Number: 125

The Reilley Award Symposium honors the groundbreaking contributions of former University of North Carolina Professors Charles N. Reilley and Royce W. Murray by recognizing excellence in the field of electrochemistry.  The 2023 symposium features talks from the C. N. Reilley Awardee, Prof. Lane Baker, Dr. Carl D. McAfee ’90 Chair in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, and Prof. Jeffrey Dick, Richard B. Wetherill Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University.

SEAC General Membership Meeting

The general membership meeting for SEAC is scheduled to take place immediately following the Charles N. Reilley/Royce W. Murray Awards Symposium on Monday, March 20, 2023. The meeting should begin shortly after the final talk (around 11:55 am) and it is open to all attendees.

SEAC Reception and Dinner

SEAC Reception 2023

Event #: 45
DATE:
March 20, 2023
TIME:
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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TYPE:
In-Person
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LOCATION:
Tir na nÓg Irish Pub
EVENT LINK:
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SEAC Reception 2023

Finally, Pittcon is back in person after going virtual due to COVID-19.  We are excited to be together this year, in person, and will be honoring the following awardees from the past and present: Charles N. Reilley Awardees: Lane Baker (2023), Paul Bohn (2022), and Keith Stevenson (2021) and Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Awardees: Jeffrey Dick (2023), Justin Sambur (2022), and Robbyn Anand (2021).

We hope to see you at our reception that will have a variety of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Space is unpredictable, since it’s never known how many folks will show up, so be prepared for cramped quarters but excellent conversations and catching up in person! There is no cost for this event.  The venue can accommodate up to 150 guests.

CATEGORY:
Public Events
TAG(S):
Murray Awardee Reception, Pittcon, Reilley Awardee Reception, SEAC programming, SEAC reception
Submitted by:
Tim Paschkewitz (Profile)
   

SEAC Dinner 2023

Event #: 46
DATE:
March 20, 2023
TIME:
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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TYPE:
In-Person
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Estia
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SEAC Dinner 2023

Finally, Pittcon is back in person after going virtual due to COVID-19.  We are excited to be together this year, in person, and will be honoring the following awardees from the past and present: Charles N. Reilley Awardees: Lane Baker (2023), Paul Bohn (2022), and Keith Stevenson (2021) and Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Awardees: Jeffrey Dick (2023), Justin Sambur (2022), and Robbyn Anand (2021).

Following the Reception, we will have a celebratory dinner at Estia, a Greek Restaurant, to enjoy dinner together.  Space is limited to 100 guests and you must purchase your dinner tickets in advance on this website.  Dinner tickets are available for sale until March 10, 2023.

CATEGORY:
SEAC Awards Dinner
TAG(S):
Murray Awardee Dinner, Reilley Awardee Dinner, SEAC programming, Ticketed Events
Submitted by:
Tim Paschkewitz (Profile)
Ticketed Event:
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Bookings and Tickets

Sorry, but bookings are closed for this event!

Member News

News and updates from our SEAC members.

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Joseph Wang

Joseph Wang
University of California - San Diego

Joseph Wang, University of California, San Diego, was elected to the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI).  NAI recognizes academic inventors who demonstrate a prolific spirit of innovation and whose inventions make a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and societal welfare.

Joseph Wang also received the prestigious International Science and Engineering from the President of Turkey.
Quote: Professor Wang was awarded for “pushing the boundaries of development in health care systems with his work” organizers said. “Wang, of the University of California, San Diego, who is also an inventor specializing in nanomachines, biosensors, and wearable devices, was awarded in the Science and Engineering field”

 

Netz Arroyo

Netz Arroyo
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Netz Arroyo, Johns Hopkins University, has been elected Technical Editor for the new journal ECS Sensors Plus, by The Electrochemical Society.   He encourages SEAC members to submit their best sensor-focused research manuscripts to this journal.  The journal launched in the Spring of 2022, is open access and free of any publication fees in 2023, representing a nice opportunity to showcase research in open access format at no cost.  The journal accepts Perspective and Review articles, original research articles and communications.  He will be happy to answer any questions from the community and welcome all submissions.

 

 
 

Shelley Minteer

Shelley Minteer
University of Utah

Shelley Minteer, University of Utah, is organizing a Bioelectrochemistry Society meeting in Salt Lake City June 14-16th, 2023 on (bio)electroanalysis.  This is the first Bioelectrochemical Society meeting outside of Europe. 

The workshop:

  • Covers all areas of bioelectrochemistry from biosensors to biofuel cells to bioanalytical methods to bioelectrocatalysis for electrosynthesis.
  • Fundamental and applied talks are invited.
  • The website is open for abstract submission until March.
  • Slots for posters and talks are open. Encourage your students to submit abstracts for 20-minute talks or posters.

 

Upcoming Events and Meetings

Meetings of interest to our SEAC members abound during the coming year, with some of the symposia organized by our own members.  We have a dedicated Events section of our new website, which provides fuller detail that in this newsletter.  Check it out!

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2023 CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry

Event #: 52
DATE:
February 11, 2023 - February 12, 2023
TIME:
All Day
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In-Person
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LOCATION:
Center for Electrochemistry at UT-Austin
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2023 CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry

Each year, the CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry brings together experts in fields of engineering, materials, and electrochemistry to focus on a few topics in important areas of electrochemical research. The CEC Workshop features scientists and researchers from top universities, national laboratories, and electrochemical industries discussing cutting-edge electrochemical science, and addressing topics related to mechanisms of electron transfer.

CATEGORY:
Conferences/Meetings
TAG(S):
CEC, electrochemistry, UT-Austin, workshop
Submitted by:
Cynthia Zoski (Profile)

Employment/Research Opportunities

We will be transitioning our “job board” to a members-only section of the website.  To bring value to both opportunity seekers as well as opportunity providers, we have decided to require active membership to view these Opportunities.  Head over to the page.  You must be logged into the SEAC website to view the opportunities.

Check out the Members Only Opportunities Board

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Special Thanks to our Sponsors

Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry

Sponsors: SEAC Student Presentation Awards, SEAC Student Poster Awards

Pittcon

Sponsors: Pittcon Accommodations, Pittcon Registrations, SEAC Award Symposia, Student Travel Awards

Pine Research Instrumentation, Inc.

Sponsors: Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award, Student Travel Awards

Gamry Instruments, Inc.

Sponsors: Student EIS Award

CH Instruments, Inc.

Sponsors: Student Group Meetings at Pittcon, Student Travel Awards

Bioanalytical Systems, Inc.

Sponsors: Charles N. Reilley Award

Ametek, Inc.

Sponsors: Student Travel Awards

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