Faculty Awards and Promotions

FACULTY AWARDS & PROMOTIONS

Jean-Luc Brédas

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.”

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.

Tori Hidalgo

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.

Jean-Luc Brédas Hamish Christie

Photo courtesy of Jean-Luc Brédas Photo credit: Olivia Mendoza Thomas Gianetti

Photo courtesy of Thomas Gianetti Tori Hidalgo

Photo credit: Olivia Mendoza Vlad Kumirov

Photo credit: Olivia Mendoza Michael Marty

Roger Miesfeld

2021 COS Distinguished Achievement in Science Education 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. This includes scholarly works that contribute to improving teaching and learning. Roger is an extraordinary educator with enormous impact on our teaching mission, and his authorship of Biochemistry and the widespread national adoption of this textbook and national and global impact of his online courses represents an outstanding achievement in science education that is the culmination of decades of dedicated efforts at the University of Arizona.

Jeanne Pemberton

2021 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis This award honors exceptional contributions to advancing the fields of spectrochemical analysis and optical spectrometry in one or more of the following: • Conceptualization and development of unique instrumentation that has made a significant impact on the field. • Development of novel and important instrumentation. • Elucidation of fundamental events or processes important to the field. • Authorship of important research papers and/or books that have had an influential role in the development of the field.

John Pollard

2021 Gerald G. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence The Gerald G. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence is designed to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University of Arizona.

PATENT COINS

Tech Launch Arizona has kicked off a new University of Arizona program to recognize inventors who are named on issued patents. Patent coins were presented to the following CBC inventors:

M. Leandro Heien Christopher Hulme John Jewett Eugene Mash, Jr. Robin Polt Jeffrey Pyun Jacob Schwartz

Jeffrey Pyun

2021 Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry Scientists who have been more than five years in a senior position and whose efforts have made an impact in any field of the chemical sciences are eligible to become a Fellow. Jeffrey is an internationally recognized leader in polymer and materials chemistry for his invention of novel polymeric and nanostructured materials for a broad range of applications in optics, photonics, information technologies, energy, and defense.

Elisa Tomat

2021 Distinguished Scholars Award The Distinguished Scholars Award recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty who create transformative innovations in their disciplines and make highly valued contributions to the teaching, research, and outreach priorities set out in the University’s Strategic Plan.

Brian Zacher

Promoted to Assistant Professor of Practice

Roger Miesfeld

Photo courtesy of Roger Miesfeld Jeanne Pemberton John Pollard

Photo courtesy of Jeanne Pemberton Photo credit: Olivia Mendoza Jeffrey Pyun

Photo courtesy of Jeff Pyun Elisa Tomat

Photo credit: Warren Hoe Brian Zacher