Dr. Lipshutz arrived at UC Santa Barbara in 1979 after completing a two-year American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Lipshutz is the recipient of several honors and awards including:

• American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award, 1981-1983
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1984-1988
• Harold J. Plous Memorial Teaching Award, UCSB, 1984
• Esquire Magazine, National Register, December, 1984
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1984-1989
• Guest Editor, Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print, Organocopper Chemistry, 1989
• Chairman, Gordon Research Conference, Reactions & Processes, 1992
• Chairman, OMCOS-8, Santa Barbara, CA, 1995
• NIH Medicinal Chemistry A Study Section, 1996-2000
• American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1997
• Guest Editor, Tetrahedron Symposium-in-Print, Organonickel Chemistry, 1998
• Organizer, NSF Workshop on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 2000-2002
• UCSB Foundation Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2002
• Board of Consulting Editors, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, 2003-2008
• Solvias Ligand Prize, 2003
• Science Advisory Board, Cambridge Major Labs, 2004-2007
• Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Santa Barbara, June, 2008
• Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Obernai, France, June, 2010
• U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2011
• Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Nantasket, June, 2012
• EROS Reagent of the Year Award, 2012
• Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Avignon, France, June, 2014
• Co-organizer, French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Santa Barbara, June 19-23, 2016
• Organic Letters "Publication of the Year", 2016
• ACS H. C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, 2017
• ACS Green Chemistry Institute's Peter J. Dunn Award, 2017