News Briefs

In the Spotlight: 2008 Special Grants

Enhancing interest in chemistry is one of the goals of the Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences. Grants in 2008 towards that end are listed below:

The Museum of Science, Boston: $200,000 for the production of a multimedia exhibit that will address the growing human energy requirements and the chemistry of possible solutions, with an emphasis on solar. (more...)

 

Foundation News

Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 82

Dr. Richard Zare Named Advisor to Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Dr. John D. Roberts Is Five-time Senior Scientist Awardee

Dr. Matthew Tirrell, Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara and Advisor to the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Wins the American Institute of Chemical Engineer's William H. Walker Award

 

Grantee News

2008 Special Grants: Enhancing Interest in Chemistry

Dr. H. Holden Thorp Named Chancellor of The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Molecules That Matter on Display at Skidmore College

Forgotten Genius Receives 2007 AAAS Science Journalism Award

Catalyst Project Hosts Inaugural Summer

Dr. Theodore Cohen Is Four-time Senior Scientist Awardee

Dr. Daniel G. Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Selected to Receive ACS Rochester's 2008 Harrison Howe Award 

 

Press Releases

Catalyst Program Brings Together Young Super-Chemists and Masters in the Field

2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Announced