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Contact:  Dr. Mark J. Cardillo
Executive Director
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Tele:  212-753-1760
mcardillo@dreyfus.org

2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Announced

NEW YORK, May 12 - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announces the selection of 15 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2008.  The award provides a $75,000 unrestricted research grant to young faculty in the chemical sciences who are within the first five years of their academic careers. These awardees have created an independent body of outstanding scholarship and demonstrate a commitment to education.  The research accomplishments in 2008 represent new paradigms in quantum chemistry, bioengineering, ultrafast and single molecule spectroscopy, and novel materials synthesis.

"The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award is the Dreyfus Foundation's flagship program," states Dr. Mark Cardillo, executive director of The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. "The intent is to support exceptional young academic researchers at an early and crucial stage of their independent careers." 

Since its inception in 1970, the Teacher-Scholar program has awarded nearly $30,000,000 in funding.  A total of 19 Teacher-Scholars have subsequently received prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize, the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize, the Welch Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship.  Thirty-six of the nearly 200 members of the National Academy of Science's chemistry division are Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars. 

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is a leading non-profit organization devoted to the advancement of the chemical sciences.  It was established in 1946 by chemist, inventor, and businessman Camille Dreyfus, who directed that the foundation's purpose be "to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances around the world."
        
For more information about the program and The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, see http://www.dreyfus.org.


 

2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars

 

Christopher W. Bielawski, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, bielawski@cm.utexas.edu
Reversible Polymers Based on Biscarbenes: Creating New Opportunities in Self-Healing Electronics, Catalysis, and Emissive Materials

Garnet K. Chan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University, gc238@cornell.edu
Building New Paradigms in Quantum Chemistry: from Quantum Renormalisation Groups to Quantum Tensor Networks

Olafs Daugulis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Houston, olafs@uh.edu
New Synthetic Organic Chemistry Reactions Involving Transition-Metal Mediated Electrophilic C-H Bond-Activation

Lincoln J. Lauhon, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Northwestern University, lauhon@northwestern.edu
Development of Quantitative Synthesis-Structure-Property Relationships for Nanostructured Materials

Mohammad Movassaghi, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, movassag@mit.edu
Syntheses of Biologically Interesting Alkaloids and the Development of New and General Routes to Nitrogen-containing Heterocycles

Thuc-Quyen T. Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara, quyen@chem.ucsb.edu
Understanding Charge Transport and Electronic Properties of Small Conjugated Molecules and Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for Applications in Optoelectronic Devices

Garegin Papoian, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gpapoian@unc.edu
Multi-Scale Modeling of Biophysical Processes in the Cell

Theresa M. Reineke, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Treineke@vt.edu
Carbohydrate-Based Polymers for Cardiovascular Nucleic Acid Delivery and MRI

Justine P. Roth, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University, jproth@jhu.edu
Fundamental Principles of Oxidation Chemistry Relevant to Biology and Medicine

Yi Tang, Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles, yitang@ucla.edu
Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways for Novel Enzymes and Useful Biocatalysts

Victor M. Ugaz, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University, ugaz@tamu.edu
Directed Assembly of Ultra-concentrated Mesophases: a New Way to Detect and Characterize Biomolecules

Qian Wang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of South Carolina, Wang@mail.chem.sc.edu
Hierarchical Micro-Nano Assemblies for Probing Cell-Matrix Interactions

M. Christina White, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, white@scs.uiuc.edu
Aliphatic and Allylic C-H Oxidations Methods for Streamlining Complex Molecule Synthesis

Haw Yang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley, hawyang@berkeley.edu
Single-Molecule Approaches Towards Understanding Chemical Reactivity in Complex Systems

Dongping Zhong, Robert Smith Associate Professor of Physics
Ohio State University, dongping@mps.ohio-state.edu
Ultrafast Functional Dynamics of Biomolecules