Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program

The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program recognizes and supports the research and teaching careers of talented early-career faculty in the chemical sciences at primarily undergraduate institutions. The award is based on accomplishment in scholarly research with undergraduates and a demonstrated commitment to undergraduate teaching. It provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000 to each awardee. Institutional nomination is required and institutions may submit only one nomination annually.

Unrestricted research grant of $75,000

Open to full-time tenure-line faculty in the chemical sciences at U.S. institutions (States, Districts, and Territories) that grant a bachelor's or master's degree and whose departments do not grant a doctoral degree. Nominees must be after the fourth and not after the twelfth years of their independent academic careers at the time of nomination and engaged in independent research and teaching primarily with undergraduates. Institutional nomination required; institutions may submit only one nomination annually.

Institutional nomination required; nomination packet (online nomination form plus specified letters and documents) must be compiled into a single PDF and sent by the deadline to info@dreyfus.org. Institutions may submit only one nomination annually.