For #NationalMentoringMonth, we're celebrating all of our Teacher-Scholars! These Dreyfus awardees are selected not only for their outstanding research, but also for their strong commitment to education. #MentoringAmplifies #MentoringMonth

ICYMI: Meet the winner of the 2025 Dreyfus Prize: Dr. Héctor Abruña (Cornell University) https://youtu.be/mGO6KOygzQI

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Chemistry Shorts films, sponsored by the Dreyfus Foundation, show the vital role the chemical sciences play in the biggest issues facing the world. Each film is accompanied by a free lesson plan to integrate the science behind these innovations into the classroom. www.chemistryshorts.org

Listen to David Sedlak, featured scientist from the Dreyfus-sponsored film "Untapped Potential," catch up with the Chemistry Shorts team last year! https://youtube.com/shorts/Bf3EmrunZm0?si=M99SAAQZfhFm1QK5

🚨 DEADLINE REMINDER 🚨 February 3, 2026 is the deadline for nominations to the 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program. Details on the award and nomination process are available at: https://www.dreyfus.org/camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar/

Great feature from Bates College on Geneva Laurita's Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award https://www.bates.edu/news/2025/12/11/faculty-member-geneva-laurita-wins-national-teaching-award/

Simon Pang of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, featured scientist from Dreyfus-sponsored Chemistry Shorts film on direct air capture, gives an update on the science from the film! https://youtube.com/shorts/w0e-0QCajgg?si=g8jaYgjwI1t7UoZV

#TBT to the 2025 winners of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Awards! Nominations are open for the 2026 cycle now!

What could Héctor D. Abruña of Cornell University tell you that you don't already know? Find out by watching his Dreyfus Prize Ceremony lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGSTwOo0tp8

Congrats again to Hamilton College on their 2025 Jean Dreyfus Lectureship! https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/jean-dreyfus-lectureship-carolyn-hutchinson

In the lesson plan for the Dreyfus Foundation-supported Chemistry Shorts film "Direct Air Capture," students model CO2 capture by using activated carbon to trap dye molecules. Download this lesson plan and watch the short film at chemistryshorts.org!

Nice writeup on Dr. Julie Pollock of University of Richmond's 2025 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! https://news.richmond.edu/releases/article/-/27331/university-of-richmond-chemistry-professor-julie-pollock-receives-national-award-for-excellence-in-teaching-and-research.html

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Even hundred-year-old chemistry rules can be broken! Learn about the work Neil Garg (UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) has been doing on anti-Bredt olefins in the newest Dreyfus Foundation-supported Chemistry Shorts film! https://youtu.be/XhxaNUF6lWk

“Franklin believed science should make life better for people. That’s the standard we try to live up to — finding problems that matter, and building the basic science that could someday help solve them.” - Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Geoffrey Coates (Cornell University) https://ow.ly/2efT50XE3um

Researchers at Yale University including Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars Seth Herzon and Jason Crawford, "have synthesized a complex, potentially cancer-fighting molecule found in sea sponges discovered off the coast of South Korea." https://ow.ly/4T6T50XE3yi

Iron and tannins make up a suit of armor that protect microbes and allow them to do their jobs! How? Find out here: https://youtu.be/MIcyvHryAYg

“With this award, we will be able to bring a preeminent chemist to campus to give talks and interact with HPU students and faculty and the greater High Point community.” - Dr. Kelsey Kean on High Point University's 2025 Jean Dreyfus Lectureship https://ow.ly/s5wq50XE81F

Dreyfus Foundation-supported Chemistry Shorts film "Rewriting Life" features David Liu and his @harvard.edu lab's work taking the basics of #CRISPR and innovating the technology from cutting DNA to actually chemically swapping its component base pairs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgui...

Miss the 2025 Dreyfus Prize Lecture with Héctor D. Abruña at Cornell University? Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGSTwOo0tp8

A new study from researchers at the University of Chicago including Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Chuan He, "reveals how controlling sunburn-triggered inflammation may prevent skin cancer." https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/cancer-articles/sunburn-inflammation-study

🗓️ MARK YOUR CALENDARS: February 3, 2026 is the deadline for nominations to the 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program. 🗓️ Details on the award and nomination process are available at: https://www.dreyfus.org/camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar/

"I never thought I would ever go to a film festival, let alone be a the star of a film that got picked up by a film festival." - Dr. Maya Warren on participating in the Dreyfus-funded Chemistry Shorts program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOH2k_b59M

Congrats to Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Todd Przybycien (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) on being awarded a $3.1 million share of a Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenge grant! https://news.rpi.edu/2025/11/14/gates-foundation-fund-rpi-research-develop-low-cost-monoclonal-antibody-treatments

📣 Calling all early chemists and chemical engineers at Ph.D.-granting institutions! 📣 You may be eligible for our $100K Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards. Learn more here: https://www.dreyfus.org/camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar/

Check out this great writeup from UCLA on the newest film in the Dreyfus-funded Chemistry Shorts series, "Changing Key and Chemistry" with Neil Garg: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/neil-garg-how-organic-chemistry-piano-keys-are-similar

Excellent article from Lafayette College on Melissa Gordon's 2025 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! https://news.lafayette.edu/2025/11/18/prof-melissa-gordon-11-earns-distinguished-henry-dreyfus-teacher-scholar-award/

Great writeup on Andrew Petit from Cal State Fullerton in honor of his Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award https://news.fullerton.edu/2025/11/theoretical-chemist-lauded-with-2025-henry-dreyfus-teacher-scholar-award/

GRANT OPPORTUNITY: February 3, 2026 is the deadline for nominations to the 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program. Details on the award and nomination process are available at: https://www.dreyfus.org/camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar/

Did you know a chemical found in yew trees was turned into the cancer-fighting drug taxol? 🌲💊 Learn more by watching the latest Dreyfus Foundation-funded Chemistry Shorts film: https://youtu.be/XhxaNUF6lWk

20 Georgia Tech students published a peer-reviewed scientific paper thanks to a bioinformatics research project lab led by Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Vinayak Agarwal. Read more about their work: https://www.newswise.com/articles/undergraduate-bioinformatics-class-produces-published-research

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Jennifer Swift (Georgetown) and colleagues investigated solid snake pee, revealing the structure, composition, and properties of these wastes. https://www.the-scientist.com/snakes-pee-solids-chemical-analysis-suggests-why-73631

Nice feature on Jeanine Amacher of Western Washington University's Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! https://news.wwu.edu/wwu-s-jeanine-amacher-named-a-henry-dreyfus-teacher-scholar

"It’s like taking Lego pieces and linking them together to make, essentially, big Lego sculptures — except our Lego pieces can’t be seen by the naked eye" - Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy of UNC on his work https://college.unc.edu/2025/10/building-success-piece-by-piece/

🥧 Want to know more about the chemistry of the ice cream that goes on top of your favorite Thanksgiving pie? 🥧 Watch Dreyfus-sponsored Chemistry Shorts film "Frosty Formulations" with Dr. Maya Warren here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T77j9ySP0tk

Microbes can convert nitrogen and secrete pesticides to help plants grow better in a more sustainable way! But how do we protect them so they can do those jobs? This Dreyfus-sponsored Chemistry Shorts film looks at new research that may be the key: https://youtu.be/MIcyvHryAYg

Researchers at UC San Diego, including Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Neal Devaraj, have "unveiled a new technology with the power to see cells in unprecedented detail." https://today.ucsd.edu/story/the-many-faces-of-lipid-research

New paper from Dreyfus Board Member Matthew V. Tirrell (University of Chicago), Dreyfus Advisor Juan de Pablo (NYU Tandon) and colleagues: "Bridging microscopic dynamics and rheology in the yielding of charged colloidal suspensions" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41105713/

ICYMI: Meet the winner of the 2025 Dreyfus Prize: Dr. Héctor Abruña (Cornell University) https://youtu.be/mGO6KOygzQI

Are you an early career researcher in the chemical sciences at a Ph.D.-granting institution? You may be eligible for our $100K Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards. Learn more here: https://www.dreyfus.org/camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar/

"Our skin-inspired organic bioelectronic devices can seamlessly interface with the human body, providing an ideal platform for biomarker monitoring." - Dreyfus Foundation Board Member Zhenan Bao (@Stanford University https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-skin-biosensors-reliably-track-health.html

Dreyfus-funded "Chemistry Shorts was part of my nomination for the Sloan Foundation Fellowship as well as the Talented 12 through ACS." - Ariel Furst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on the impact of getting involved in science communication https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOH2k_b59M

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.