The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of eight new Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2025.

The award honors young faculty in the chemical sciences who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship and are deeply committed to education with undergraduates. Each Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $75,000.

Jeanine Amacher
Western Washington University
All Residues Considered: Specificity Determinants at Non-Motif Positions Drive Protein-SLiM Interactions

Shuming Chen
Oberlin College
Mechanism-Guided Design and Selectivity Control in Catalysis via Hidden Dynamic and Coordination-Sphere Influences

Melissa Gordon
Lafayette College
Design for Degradation: Developing Polymers for Environmental Responsiveness and Breakdown

Geneva Laurita
Bates College
Local Structure and Functionality in the Investigation of Non-Toxic Inorganic Ceramics and Pigments

Ryan Limbocker
United States Military Academy at West Point
Biophysical Studies to Understand and Combat Protein Misfolding and Aggregation Mechanisms Relevant to Pathology

Andrew Petit
California State University, Fullerton
From Photobase Catalysis to Electronic Quenching: New Directions in Computational Photochemistry

Julie Pollock
University of Richmond
Interdisciplinary Chemical Biology: Advancing Drug Discovery and Understanding Disease Mechanisms

Kathryn Riley
Swarthmore College
Enabling a Mechanistic Understanding of the Biomolecule-Mediated Reactivity of Nanoscale Materials