2021 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announces the selection of 8 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2021. 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.
Michael Campbell, Barnard College
Chemistry of Dinuclear Silver Complexes
Amanda Murphy, Western Washington University
Chemical Strategies to Customize Protein and Polymer-based Biomaterials
Katelynn Perrault, Chaminade University of Honolulu
Nontargeted Volatile Analysis of Batch and Longitudinal GCxGC Data with Machine Learning
Christine Phillips-Piro, Franklin & Marshall College
Building Tools and Engineering Functionality: Utilizing Unnatural Amino Acids to Study Proteins
Marino Resendiz, University of Colorado Denver
Structure-Function Relationships of Chemically Modified RNA: The Quest to Retain Students in Chemistry
S. Chantal Stieber, California State Polytechnic University
Synthesis and Spectroscopy for Elucidating NO2- Reduction Mechanisms
Grace Stokes, Santa Clara University
Quantification of Heavy Metal Ion Transport Across Bacterial Membranes
Kristen Whalen, Haverford College
Decoding the Ocean’s Chemoinformatic Landscape: Explorations in Chemical-Mediated Interactions in the Ocean
Jim Anderson Awarded 2021 Dreyfus Prize
James G. Anderson (left), the Philip S. Weld Professor in Chemistry at Harvard University, was awarded the 2021 Dreyfus Prize, conferred in Environmental Chemistry, on September 23. Scott Walter (right), President of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, presented the Prize to Dr. Anderson in the company of his wife Shirine Boulos Anderson, Theodore Betley (Chair, Department of Chemistry), Daniel Nocera (Patterson Rockwood Professor of Chemistry and Dreyfus Board member), and Scott Siegel (Executive Director, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation). A formal public ceremony to honor Dr. Anderson is planned to be held at Harvard in 2022. See this page for more details on Dr. Anderson’s research and his receipt of the Dreyfus Prize.
Matthew Tirrell Named Winner of 2022 ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry & Welch Institute Chair
Matthew Tirrell, Dean of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at The University of Chicago and Chair of the Dreyfus Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee, has recently received two significant honors. Dr. Tirrell is the recipient of the 2022 American Chemical Society Award in Colloid Chemistry, which recognizes outstanding scientific contributions in the field. Further, the Welch Institute for Advanced Materials, a partnership between The Welch Foundation and Rice University focused on world-leading advanced materials research, has named Tirrell as the new chair of its Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Tirrell is a pioneering researcher in the fields of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, specializing in the manipulation and measurement of the surface properties of polymers, materials that consist of long, flexible chain molecules. His work combines microscopic measurements of intermolecular forces with the creation of new structures and has provided new insight into polymer properties, especially surface phenomena, such as adhesion, friction, and biocompatibility, and new materials based on self-assembly of synthetic and bioinspired materials.
2021 Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Awards
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announces seven award recipients of the 2021 program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, totaling $799,470. The Foundation anticipates that these projects will contribute new fundamental chemical insight and innovation in the field.
2021 Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Awards:
Milad Abolhasani, North Carolina State University
An Autonomous Robo-Fluidic Microprocessor: Machine Learning-Guided Synthesis Process Development of Quantum Dots
Garnet Chan, California Institute of Technology
New Opportunities for Machine Learning in Quantum Chemistry
Sriram Chandrasekaran, University of Michigan
Predicting Moonlighting Metabolic Regulators Using Mechanistic Deep Learning
Qiang Cui, Boston University
Understanding Protein Allostery using Machine Learning and Deep Mutation Data
Abigail Doyle, University of California, Los Angeles
Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Prediction
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adversarial Attacks on Interatomic Potentials for Active Learning and Inverse Design
Nicholas Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Machine Learning Quantum Chemistry Over Coarse-Grained Fields
Dreyfus/ACS Symposium on Chemistry in Support of Human Health now online
The Dreyfus Foundation sponsored a symposium on Chemistry in Support of Human Health, the topic of the 2019 Dreyfus Prize, at the spring 2021 national meeting of the American Chemical Society. Videos of these talks are now available on YouTube, at the following links: Susan Richardson (U. of South Carolina), David Tirrell (Caltech), Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford), Richard Friesner (Columbia), Chaitan Khosla (Stanford), Peter Schultz (Scripps Research Institute), Sangeeta Bhatia (MIT), and Robert Langer (MIT, recipient of the 2019 Dreyfus Prize).