Catherine J. Murphy

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Catherine "Cathy" Jones Murphy
Pronunciation
  • /ˈkæθi ˈmɜrfi /
Born1964
Morris Plains, New Jersey
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S. 1986)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph. D. 1990)
California Institute of Technology (Post-Doc, 1990–1993)
Known forGold Nanorods
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award
Cottrell Scholar Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Nanotechnology, Chemical biology, Physical chemistry, Environmental chemistry,
InstitutionsUniversity of South Carolina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (summer internship)
Doctoral advisor
Other academic advisors, Jacqueline Barton
Websitefaculty.scs.illinois.edu/murphy/index.shtml

Catherine "Cathy" J. Murphy (born 1964) is an American chemist and materials scientist, the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[1]

Early Life and Education[]

Murphy was born in Morris Plains New, Jersey in 1964.[2] She attended junior high and high school in Glen Ellyn, Illinois after her family moved to the Chicago suburbs in 1974.[2]

Murphy is a first-generation college student.[3] She graduated with bachelor's of science degrees in both chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986.[1] During her undergraduate studies, Murphy conducted research in the lab of Thomas B. Rauchfuss.

While a freshman at UIUC, Cathy met her husband, Robert "Bob" Murphy, who is also now a math professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[4]

After her undergraduate studies, she did a summer internship with Amoco Research Center in Naperville, Illinois.[1]

Murphy earned her doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the direction of Arthur B. Ellis in 1990. Her graduate work focused on the surface chemistry of semiconductors.[2] Murphy completed postdoctoral work as a NSF and NIH postdoctoral fellow under the advisement of Jacqueline Barton at the California Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1993.

Career[]

Murphy joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina in 1993, the first female faculty member on the tenure track in that department. She remained at South Carolina through 2009, becoming the Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry in 2003.

In 2009, she joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry.[1] She held this role until 2017, when she received the Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry at UIUC. In 2020, Murphy was appointed as the Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the first woman to ever hold this position.[5]

At UIUC, Murphy also holds affiliations with the departments of Bioengineering, Material Science and Engineering, the Materials Research Lab, the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, the Center for Advanced Study, the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.[1]

Murphy is a senior investigator for the National Science Foundation .[6]

During her career at UIUC, Murphy has mentored and advised more than 6 visiting scientists, 11 postdoctoral researchers, 37 graduate students, 86 undergraduate students, 3 high school students, and 2 high school teachers. While at South Carolina, she advised 12 postdoctoral researchers/visiting scientists, 24 graduate students, 55 undergraduate students, and 14 high school students. She has received recognition for this service including the Siemens-Westinghouse High School Science Mentor Award in 2002 and the University of South Carolina Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award in 2003.[7]

Research[]

Her research focuses on inorganic nanomaterials and the biophysical properties of DNA. Murphy is known for her work on the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio.[8] Her laboratory has developed the surface chemistry, biological applications,[9] and environmental implications of these nanomaterials.[10]

Contributions[]

Murphy has published over 269 research publications.[7] She authored two books for SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics: the first in 2001 titled “Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Surfaces: Novel Reporters with Biological Applications,”[11] and the second in 2002 titled “Biomedical Nanotechnology Architectures and Applications”[12] Since 2006, Murphy has been a coauthor of the general chemistry textbook, Chemistry: The Central Science.[13]

From 2006 to 2010, Murphy was a Senior Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry. From 2011 to 2020, she was the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C and as of 2020, a member of its Editorial Advisory Board.[14]

Murphy holds two patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.[7]

Recognition[]

Murphy has won numerous awards and recognition for her scholarship, research, teaching, mentoring, and overall career.

She has been elected as a member into the National Academy of Sciences (2015)[15] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.[16] In 2008, Murphy was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[17]

Murphy has been recognized as a Fellow of her fields associated professional societies including the American Chemical Society (2011),[18] the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014), and the Materials Research Society (2017).[19]

Specifically recognizing her research, Murphy has won the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995),[20] Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1997),[21] National Science Foundation Award for Special Creativity (1998),[7] U of SC Russell Award for Research in Science, Mathematics & Engineering (2005),[22] Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society Inorganic Nanoscience Award (2011),[23] TREE (Transformational Research and Excellence in Education) Award (2015),[7] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society Langmuir Lecturer (2015),[7] University of Pennsylvania Nano/Bio Interface Center Research Excellence Award (2016),[7] American Chemical Society Maryland Section Remsen Award for Research and Teaching (2019),[24] American Chemical Society Linus Pauling Medal (2019),[25] Materials Research Society MRS Medal (2019),[26] and PROTEOMASS Scientific Society Career Award (2020).[27]

In 2020, Murphy received the American Chemical Society's Award in Inorganic Chemistry. She is the first woman to receive this recognition.[28]

For her teaching contributions, Murphy has won the Cottrell Scholar Award (1996),[29] USC Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award (1996),[30] Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1998),[31] U of SC Golden Key Faculty Award for Creative Integration of Research and Undergraduate Teaching (1998),[29] and U of SC Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award (2001).[32]

In 2011, Thomson Reuters ranked Murphy as number 10 in their Top 100 Materials Scientists of 2000–2010,[33] as number 32 in their Top 100 Chemists of 2000–2010,[34] a Highly Cited Researcher in Material Science in 2014 and 2015,[7] a Highly Cited Researcher in Chemistry in 2014, 2015, and 2016.[7] Murphy was ranked a Highly Cited Researcher again in 2018 by Clarivate Analytics.[35] Highly Cited Researcher designations are given to the top 1% of researchers based on the number of times their work was cited by others in a given year as determined on Web of Science.

Murphy's career has included a number of firsts for women, some previously mentioned, such as the first woman on a tenure track at USC Chemistry and the first woman to be department head at UIUC. in 2013, Murphy received the Carol Tyler Award from the International Precious Metals Institute, which recognizes women who have made contributions to field of precious metals.[36] In 2015, she received the Inspiring Women in STEM Award from Insight into Diversity.[37]

References[]

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  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Catherine J. Murphy". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  3. ^ jdalessio@news-gazette.com, Jeff D'Alessio. "Illini Insider: Cathy Murphy". The News-Gazette. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  4. ^ Lawlor, Elizabeth (October 11, 2018). "Married professors at UI share their experiences". The Daily Illini. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
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  6. ^ "Team | The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology". Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i https://chemistry.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/cv/CJMcv2020.pdf
  8. ^ Murphy, Catherine J. (2005). "Anisotropic Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Assembly, and Optical Applications". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 109 (29): 13857–13870. doi:10.1021/jp0516846. PMID 16852739.
  9. ^ Connor, EE; Mwamuka, J; Gole, A; Murphy, CJ; Wyatt, MD (2005). "Gold nanoparticles are taken up by human cells but do not cause acute cytotoxicity". Small. 1 (3): 325–7. doi:10.1002/smll.200400093. PMID 17193451.
  10. ^ Ferry, John L. (July 2009). "Transfer of gold nanoparticles from the water column to the estuarine food web". Nature Nanotechnology. 4 (7): 441–444. Bibcode:2009NatNa...4..441F. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.549.363. doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.157. PMID 19581897.
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  22. ^ "Research Awards – Office of the Provost | University of South Carolina". sc.edu. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  23. ^ "Nanoscience Award". Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  24. ^ "Remsen Award – The Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society". Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  25. ^ "Professor Catherine Murphy to receive Linus Pauling award | Chemistry at Illinois". chemistry.illinois.edu. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  26. ^ "MRS Medal | Materials Research Society Awards". mrs.org. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  27. ^ "Proteomass Awards – BIOSCOPE Research Group | PROTEOMASS Scientific Society". Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  28. ^ "Congratulations to Cathy Murphy". Division of Inorganic Chemistry. December 16, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  29. ^ Jump up to: a b Advancement, Research Corporation for Science. "Cottrell Scholar Award". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  30. ^ "Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching: Award Winners : USC Center for Excellence in Teaching". cet.usc.edu. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  31. ^ https://www.dreyfus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/TC_all_2021.pdf
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  37. ^ Alexandra Vollman. "100 Inspiring Women in STEM Awards". Retrieved May 21, 2021.

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