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Information About Dr. Elizabeth T. Papish

Professor of Chemistry
Office: 3064 Shelby Hall
Lab: 3052 Shelby Hall
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
(205) 348-5822
Email: etpapish@ua.edu

Education

• Columbia University, Ph.D. in Chemistry 2002 (Advisor: Professor Jack R. Norton)
• Cornell University, B.A. in Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, 1997

Professional Experience

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall college 2002-2003
• Assistant Professor, Salisbury University, 2003-2007
• Assistant Professor, Drexel University, 2007-2012
• Associate Professor, Drexel University, 2012-2013
• Associate Professor, The University of Alabama, 2013-2019.
• Professor, The University of Alabama, August 2019-present.

Awards to the PI

• Invited to speak at 2018 Organometallics Gordon Research Conference.
• Division of Inorganic Chemistry (ACS) Award in 2013 for Undergraduate Research. Given to Papish and undergraduate Lauren Reuther.
• Teaching Excellence Award in 2012 from College of Arts and Sciences
• Career Development Award from Drexel University in 2011. For seminars on “Big Picture Issues – Green Chemistry and Bio-inspired Catalysis” and funds to foster research and collaborations.
• Outstanding Research Mentor of the year 2007 at Salisbury University
• Outstanding Poster Award at Inorganic Gordon Research Conference 2007 for poster on “Sterically Bulky Water-Soluble Ligands for Modeling Metalloenzyme Active Sites”

Funding History

• ACS Petroleum Research Fund (type GB) 2004-2007 for “Transition Metal Complexes for Catalytic Hydrolysis of Phosphotriester Pesticides”
• Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award 2007 (rescinded, not eligible since no longer at a PUI)
• ACS Petroleum Research Fund (type AC) in 2008 for “Novel Water-Soluble N-Heterocyclic Carbene Chelates for Transition Metal Catalysts.”
• NSF CAREER award 2009-2015 for “New Water-Soluble Ligands and Transition Metal Complexes for Enzyme Modeling and Catalysis”
• RGC award from UA 2015-2018 for “Ruthenium Complexes as Tumor Activated Prodrugs for Selective Toxicity Towards Cancer Cells” PI: Papish, co-PI: John Kim.
• Seed grant recipient 2015-2019 from NSF EPSCoR track II award, PI Nathan Hammer (Univ. of Mississippi).
• NSF MRI lead PI 2018-2021 for single crystal XRD instrument.
• NSF CHE Catalysis funding 2018-2021.
• NIH R15 (AREA) via NIGMS application pending for 2019-2022.

Papish Trivia and Lineage

• Some info on my great-grandfather, Jacob Papish, a Cornell chemistry professor, who I never got to meet (died before I was born). See Cornell University Newsletter, & jump to page 6 for Jacob Papish’s life story.
• Land my great-grandfather used to own is now Papish pond.
• If I changed my last name, and hypenated, what chemical spectroscopy technique would be my initials???

ANSWER: EPR, tempting as that was, I chose to keep my last name and stick with ETP (even after being teased for being an extra-terrestrial alien all through elementary school).