She was a National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1993. In 1993, she was the area of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, setting the Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry in 2003. In 2009 she held to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as the Peter C. Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry. Professor Murphy looks discarded advised for both page and patient as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award multiplicity, and a speakeroriented NSF Award for automated work.