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In the Spotlight: Second Teacher-Scholar Sympsoium, October 26, 2012
The second biennial Teacher-Scholar symposium was held at the New York Academy of Sciences on October 26, 2012. The Teacher-Scholars presented posters of their research and six presented brief oral summaries of teaching innovations. Five prominent Teacher-Scholars from earlier years gave research talks. A video of the talks given by Arup Chakraborty, Geoffrey Coates, Julie Millard, Geraldine Richmond, and Alanna Schepartz, as well as the teaching presentations, is available HERE.
Drs. A. Chakraborty, G. Coates, J. Millard, G. Richmond, and A. Schepartz.
Symposium in Catalysis at the ACS meeting, March 27, 2012
The Dreyfus Foundation sponsored a Presidential Symposium in Catalysis at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego on March 27, 2012. In order of appearance, the speakers were Stephen Buchwald, Eric Jacobsen, Stephen Benkovic, Judith Klinman, Daniel Nocera, Gabor Somorjai, Jens Norskov, and Tobin Marks. Charles Campbell gave tribute to D. Wayne Goodman, a scheduled speaker who passed away on February 27. The session chairs were: John Brauman, JoAnne Stubbe, Richard Zare, and Matthew Tirrell.
Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Symposium, October 29, 2010
A Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Symposium, "Research Frontiers in the Chemical Sciences", was held in New York City on Friday, October 29, 2010. The 2009 and 2010 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars and the 2008 and 2009 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars presented posters of their research. Bracketing the poster sessions were talks by four senior Teacher-Scholars representing different research areas of chemistry. The one-day symposium highlighted many exciting areas in the chemical sciences and promoted a network among many of the nation's leading young research chemists. The Symposium presentations by Drs. Grubbs, Kiessling, Mrksich, and Nuckolls are available as streaming video here. The titles of the speaker's talks are:
Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology
The Design and Synthesis of Catalysts for Use in Organic and Polymer Synthesis
Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carbohydrate Polymer Assembly: How Do Mycobacteria Do It?
Milan Mrksich, University of Chicago
Exploring the Molecular Logic of Protein Acetylation
Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University
From Moleculaes to Materials
Symposium in Materials Chemistry at the ACS meeting, March 23, 2010
Some of the nation's leading materials chemists presented their work at the Presidential Symposium "Frontiers in Materials Chemistry: A Tribute to the Dreyfus Brothers," at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 23.
Frontiers in Materials Chemistry: A Tribute to the Dreyfus Brothers
Matthew Tirrell and Mark Cardillo, Organizers, Presiding
Welcome
Joseph S. Francisco, ACS President
Introductory remarks
Matthew Tirrell, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers
Tobin Marks, Northwestern University
New materials and processes for constructing highly unconventional organic, inorganic, and organometallic electronic circuitryJoanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
Advanced materials for mitigation of ice accretionOmar Yaghi, University of California, Los Angeles
Metal-organic frameworks and the 'gene' for carbon captureRobert Cava, Princeton University
Stoichiometry, structure and bonding in the new iron pnictide superconductorsA. Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley
Nanoscale materials for solar fuel generationDavid Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
Reinterpreting the genetic codeC. Grant Willson, University of Texas at Austin
Organic materials for microelectronics: a view of the futureJohn A. Rogers, University of Illinois
Materials for bio-integrated electronicsGeorge Whitesides, Harvard University
Organic materials science
A Dreyfus Foundation Symposium on Environmental Chemistry Research, October 24, 2008
Climate, Energy, and the Changing Environment: A Dreyfus Foundation Symposium on Environmental Chemistry Research was held in New York City on Friday, October 24, 2008. The symposium, co-hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, provided a current view of some of the most exciting topics within the broad field of environmental chemistry.
Streaming Video
The Symposium presentations are available as streaming video here.
Photographs
Photographs of the Speakers, Dreyfus Foundation, Board of Directors and various candid shots are available.
Featured Articles
Articles on the Dreyfus Symposium, to date, have appeared in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy [HERE] and Inside Science [HERE] the news service of the American Institute of Physics.
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