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FACULTY AWARDS & PROMOTIONS
Hamish Christie
Promoted to Associate Professor of Practice 2021 COS Distinguished Career Teaching Award The Distinguished Career Teaching Award is given in recognition of a long career as an outstanding classroom teacher and mentor of students at different levels and in diverse settings. Perhaps Hamish’s crowning achievement in curricular development has been his design of CHEM 545, a highly innovative laboratory course for graduate students, and possibly the most unique in the country. The graduate students’ experience in this course is so highly valued, that they seek out Hamish’s advice on experimental set-up and laboratory techniques throughout their graduate careers.
Thomas Gianetti
2021 Cottrell Scholar Award This award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. The Cottrell Scholar Award provides entry into a national community of outstanding scholar-educators who produce significant research and educational outcome. The Cottrell Scholar Award provides $100,000 over a period of three years and will support Thomas’s research. Scorpion Pit Entrepreneurial Award Thomas won the Scorpion Pit Entrepreneurial Competition at the American Chemical Society’s Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting in 2021. He received a plaque, a $1,300 cash award, and will participate in a 6-week NSF ICORPs local cohort training.
2021 The University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award This award recognizes excellence in the art of teaching at all levels, but the Foundation places particular emphasis on teaching at the undergraduate level. 2021 College of Science Innovation in Teaching Award The Innovation in Teaching Award is given in recognition of outstanding educational innovation developed and applied to course delivery whether in the classroom or in a virtual setting. Tori’s multi-faceted approach to teaching considers evidence-based learning strategies, such as flipped classrooms, and brilliantly combines them with real-time formative assessments of the learning experience such that the teaching team collaborates with the instructor in delivering the most effective learning experience possible for the students currently in the classroom, not just an amorphous population of generic undergraduates.
Vlad Kumirov
Promoted to Assistant Professor of Practice
Michael Marty
Promoted to Associate Professor 2021 Galileo Circle Curie Award The Galileo Circle Curie Award recognizes the “rising-stars” amongst the department’s junior faculty whose innovative work is not only advancing science, but also is adding to the diversity within the scientific community. 2021 Ron Hites Award Dr. Michael Marty and co-authors Marius M. Kostelic, Alex M. Ryan, Deseree J. Reid, and Jibriel M. Noun, received the 2021 Ron Hites Award for their paper “Expanding the Types of Lipids Amenable to Native Mass Spectrometry of Lipoprotein Complexes” (Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. (2019) 30:1416Y1425). This award, sponsored by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, recognizes annually an exemplary paper published in the previous two volumes of JASMS. The award recognizes a high-quality presentation of outstanding original research. Vlad Kumirov Photo credit: Olivia Mendoza
Tori Hidalgo Photo courtesy of Thomas Gianetti
Thomas Gianetti Photo credit: Olivia Mendoza
Hamish Christie Photo courtesy of Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas
Tori Hidalgo
Michael Marty Photo courtesy of Michael Marty
2021 Centenary Prize This prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry was presented to Jean-Luc “for seminal contributions to our fundamental understanding of the electronic properties of organic materials for electronics and photonics, and for excellence in communication.”
Photo credit: Olivia Mendoza
Jean-Luc Brédas
