In the new Chemistry Shorts film, Neil Garg (UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) argues that each atom in a molecule is like a note in a piece of music: once you learn the basic components, you can put them together in infinite combinations. https://youtu.be/XhxaNUF6lWk

#TBT to the 2022 Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Symposium, which brought together four classes of our awardees! Watch a selection of the day's talks here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBKmpARNlWARG_6qBwXOqCjOxHhyJ-SIk

What if organic chemistry was as easy to learn as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?" In the newest Dreyfus Foundation-funded Chemistry Shorts film - out today - UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry's Neil Garg argues that it is! Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XhxaNUF6lWk

🚨 NEW FILM TOMORROW! 🚨 We're excited for the launch of the newest film in the Chemistry Shorts series - featuring professor Neil Garg of UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry - on organic chemistry.

The Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce the February 3 deadline for nominations to the 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards. Further details on the award and nomination process are available at: www.dreyfus.org/camille-drey...

Congratulations to Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Giulia Palermo (Giulia Palermo) on your new appointment to UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry! https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/welcoming-professor-giulia-palermo/

🚨 NEW FILM COMING SOON! 🚨 We're excited for the launch of the newest film in the Chemistry Shorts series - featuring professor Neil Garg of UCLA - on organic chemistry. Coming soon.

🚗 We can use demolition derbies to help understand how directed evolution works. 🚗 Learn more by watching Dreyfus-sponsored Chemistry Shorts film "Driving Reactions" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTG85cuVpZo

Today is #NationalSTEMDay! 🎉 🧪 This year, we're celebrating all the incredible educators and researchers that we are proud to call grantees.

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Nicholas Jackson of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used machine learning to find "that polymers with longer molecular chains were more likely to form chiral assemblies." https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spontaneous-chirality-conjugated-polymers.html

"As with all prizes, it's really a reflection of the people who've done the work in my laboratories over decades." - Héctor Abruña (Cornell University) on winning the Dreyfus Prize https://youtu.be/mGO6KOygzQI

TBT: Two weeks ago was a wonderful celebration of the 2025 Dreyfus Prize winner Héctor Abruña of Cornell University 📸: Chris Kitchen Photography

The Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 8 new Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars! The award honors young faculty in the chemical sciences who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship & are deeply committed to education with undergraduates.

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Alison Narayan (Alison Narayan, Narayan Lab @ UMich, University of Michigan) and colleagues have developed "a new tool that makes greener chemistry more accessible." https://news.umich.edu/catnip-for-chemists-new-data-driven-tool-broadens-access-to-greener-chemistry/

A new peptide study from Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Myriam Cotton (Oregon State University) and colleagues "paves [the] path toward [a] new weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria." https://ow.ly/avIN50Xl1LL

Congratulations to Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Alice Ting (Alice Ting) of Stanford University on being elected to National Academy of Medicine! https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/national-academy-medicine.html

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce 8 new grants in the Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions program!

Want to learn more about MOFs, the materials behind the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Dianne Xiao (UW Chemistry) explains: https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/10/10/uw-chemistry-professors-explain-mofs-the-materials-behind-the-2025-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/

TODAY at 5 p.m. PT: Occidental College hosts Emily Balksus of Harvard for a public talk as part of their Jean Dreyfus Lectureship. Details below:

TODAY at James Madison University as part of their Jean Dreyfus Lectureship, JMU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Polly Arnold of UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab for a discussion following a free film screening

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Nils Walter (Nils Walter & Lab @ the U. of Michigan) and colleagues have developed "a tool powered by artificial intelligence that can help them examine the behavior of a single molecule out of a sea of information in the blink of an eye." https://ow.ly/8C0650XkXkA

Happy Halloween! 🎃🪦👻 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Ariel Furst of Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows us how to dress up microbes in a protective chemical “suit of armor.” Watch here: https://youtu.be/MIcyvHryAYg

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Sujit Datta (Datta Lab) talks to Caltech about "his work and what is so special about all this squishy stuff." https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/studying-the-squishy-stuff-a-conversation-with-sujit-datta

The Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce 16 Supplemental Grants for Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars! These grants support research that needs an additional, modest infusion of funds to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion or stopping point.

Nice feature on Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Stephen Fried (Johns Hopkins University)! https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025/09/fried-misfolded-proteins-in-neurodegenerative-diseases

Researchers at UC Riverside, led by Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Giulia Palermo, have uncovered "how a bacterial protein can steer the 'jumping' of genes to specific spots in the genome." https://www.sdsc.edu/news/2025/PR20250916-jumping-gene-editing.html

Researchers including Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Frank Leibfarth (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "have developed a new approach to create better rubber-like materials more quickly by combining artificial intelligence with human expertise." https://ow.ly/ilTQ50Xj56M

Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar William McNamara (William & Mary) speaks to W&M News about his work "drawing inspiration from nature to tap the potential of CO2 as a fuel." https://news.wm.edu/2025/09/16/a-fundamental-approach-to-the-carbon-dioxide-problem/

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Joel Yuen-Zhou "doesn’t fit neatly into a box and neither does his work." Learn more via this excellent interview from UC San Diego! https://today.ucsd.edu/story/joel-yuen-zhou-thinks-theory-is-fun

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply for the Dreyfus-sponsored American Chemical Society National Awards for by Nov. 1! https://cen.acs.org/people/awards/Nominations-sought-2027-American-Chemical/103/web/2025/06

Great interview with Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Brandi Cossairt (University of Washington) on "what makes quantum dots shine." https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/09/16/from-tvs-to-the-future-of-computing-uw-professor-explains-what-makes-quantum-dots-shine/

Happy #NationalChemistryWeek from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation! 🎉 🧪