ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences

Sponsor: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

Purpose: To recognize significant accomplishments by individuals in stimulating students, underrepresented in the profession, to elect careers in the chemical sciences and engineering.

Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. A grant of $10,000 will be made to an academic institution, designated by the recipient, to strengthen its activities in meeting the objectives of the award. Up to $1,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.

Eligibility: Nominees for the award may come from any professional setting: academia, industry, government, or other independent facility. The award is intended to recognize significant accomplishments in the United States by individuals in stimulating students, especially those currently underrepresented in the profession, to elect careers in the chemical sciences and engineering, and in generating a broader appreciation of chemistry as the central science. The award will be granted without regard to age or nationality.

Deadline: November 1 (annual review).

Establishment & Support: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. established the award in 1993.

Nomination Forms

Contact Information

Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-4801
Phone: (202) 872-4408
Fax: (202) 776-8008
awards@acs.org

Recipient

2009 Shirley McBay

2008 Susan V. Olesik

2007 Robyn E. Hannigan

2006 Susan R. Fahrenholtz

2005 Jeannette E. Brown

2004 Zaida C. Morales-Martinez

2003 Isiah M. Warner

2002 James P. Shoffner

2001 Carlos G. Gutierrez

2000 Slayton A. Evans, Jr.

1999 Ajay K. Bose

1998 Zafra Lerman

1997 Billy Joe Evans

1996 Samuel P. Massie

1995 Henry C. McBay