2022 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 18 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2022. These faculty are within the first five years of their academic careers, have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education. Each Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar receives an unrestricted research grant of $100,000.
University of California, Los Angeles
Materials which Explore the Extremes of Excitonic Photophysics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Light in, Sound out: Making Chemical Probes to Detect Invisible Disease States Using Photoacoustic Imaging
Princeton University
Dynamics of Soft and Living Matter in Complex Environments
University of Oregon
Hydrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis in Earth-Abundant Metal-Organic Frameworks
North Carolina State University
Physico-Chemical Design of Bioinspired Soft Materials to Reproduce Touch
University of Chicago
Single-Atom Logic for Molecular Skeletal Editing
Dartmouth College
Novel Functional Electrochemical Materials for Energy and Sustainability
Harvard University
Unraveling Macromolecular Complexes and Gene Regulation with Chemical Genomics
Northeastern University
Sustainable Energy and Chemistry through Computations and Machine Learning
California Institute of Technology
Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Responsive Polymers
University of Colorado, Boulder
Accurate Electronic Structure for Quantum Materials and Metalloenzymes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Understanding and Exploiting Electronic Cooperation in Metalloclusters
Stanford University
Rendering "Wastewater" Obsolete: Designing Selective Electrochemical Separations to Valorize Water Pollutants
University of Washington
Bioanalytical Chemistry for Medicine and the Environment
Johns Hopkins University
Molecular Approaches to Materials Design in Energy Conversion and Storage
University of California, Davis
Atomically Precise Active Sites for Catalytic Small-Molecule Conversion
The Pennsylvania State University
Dynamics of Active and Responsive Microscale Materials
Yale University
Rapid Access to Diversified Polymer Properties through Microstructure Engineering
About the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

The purpose of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., is to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances throughout the world. Established in 1946 by chemist, inventor, and businessman Camille Dreyfus as a memorial to his brother Henry, the Foundation became a memorial to both men when Camille Dreyfus died in 1956. Throughout its history the Foundation has sought to take the lead in identifying and addressing needs and opportunities in the chemical sciences through a series of programs and awards. Learn more about the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation by visiting its website.