Symposia

In the Spotlight: Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Symposium, October 29, 2010

A one-day Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Symposium, "Research Frontiers in the Chemical Sciences", will be held in New York City on Friday, October 29, 2010. The Foundation anticipates that the symposium will highlight many exciting areas in the chemical sciences as well as promote a network among many of the nation's leading young research chemists. The 2009 and 2010 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars, the 2008 and 2009 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars will present posters of their work.  Bracketing the poster sessions will be talks by four senior Teacher-Scholars representing different research areas of chemistry.  The speakers for this first symposium are:

Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology
Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Milan Mrksich, University of Chicago
Alexander Pines, University of California, Berkeley

 

Symposium in Materials Chemistry at the ACS meeting, March 23, 2010

Some of the nation's leading materials chemists presented their work at the Presidential Symposium "Frontiers in Materials Chemistry: A Tribute to the Dreyfus Brothers," at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 23.

 

 

 

 

 

Frontiers in Materials Chemistry: A Tribute to the Dreyfus Brothers

Matthew Tirrell and Mark Cardillo, Organizers, Presiding

Welcome

Joseph S. Francisco, ACS President

Introductory remarks

Matthew Tirrell, University of California, Berkeley

Speakers

Tobin Marks, Northwestern University
New materials and processes for constructing highly unconventional organic, inorganic, and organometallic electronic circuitry

Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
Advanced materials for mitigation of ice accretion

Omar Yaghi, University of California, Los Angeles
Metal-organic frameworks and the 'gene' for carbon capture

Robert Cava, Princeton University
Stoichiometry, structure and bonding in the new iron pnictide superconductors

A. Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley
Nanoscale materials for solar fuel generation

David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
Reinterpreting the genetic code

C. Grant Willson, University of Texas at Austin
Organic materials for microelectronics: a view of the future

John A. Rogers, University of Illinois
Materials for bio-integrated electronics

George Whitesides, Harvard University
Organic materials science

 

A Dreyfus Foundation Symposium on Environmental Chemistry Research, October 24, 2008

Climate, Energy, and the Changing Environment: A Dreyfus Foundation Symposium on Environmental Chemistry Research was held in New York City on Friday, October 24, 2008. The symposium, co-hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, provided a current view of some of the most exciting topics within the broad field of environmental chemistry.

 

Streaming Video

The Symposium presentations are available as streaming video here.

Photographs

Photographs of the Speakers, Dreyfus Foundation, Board of Directors and various candid shots are available.

Featured Articles

Articles on the Dreyfus Symposium, to date, have appeared in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy [HERE] and Inside Science [HERE] the news service of the American Institute of Physics.

Related link

Symposium program