Chemical Engineering Grants

Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management

Purpose: To recognize outstanding achievements in chemical research management.

Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. Reasonable travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.

Eligibility: A nominee must be a citizen of the United States. The award is intended to recognize individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and creativity in promoting the sciences of chemistry and chemical engineering in research management. Nominees should have demonstrated success in research management by exhibiting the proven ability to manage research projects and people. This leadership and creativity must have been demonstrated by a record of successful research projects and by a strong motivation of the researchers on those projects. Recognition of these accomplishments by peers is essential.

Deadline: November 1 (annual review).

Establishment & Support: Dow Chemical Co. established the award in 1982.

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

ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry

Purpose: To recognize outstanding contributions to chemical research in the industrial context. Significant creative contribution to chemistry in any field of chemical, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical, or biochemical research is appropriate.

Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. Reasonable travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. The ACS Division of Business Development and Management will be the organizational partner with the ACS division in which the recipient has a primary focus and will program the award address at the spring national meeting.

Deadline: November 1 (annual review).

Eligibility: Any chemical researcher whose primary employer was industrial when the work was done and who was based in North America is eligible.

Establishment & Support: The ACS Division of Business Development and Management began sponsoring the award in 2003 and began partnership with the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association in 2007. The ACS financed the award in 2001 and 2002. Akzo Chemicals, Inc. established the award in 1989 and sponsored it until 2000.

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

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program

Deadline: February 5, 2009
Announcement: April 2009

The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained within the first five years of their appointment as independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000.

Eligibility
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program is open to academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America that grant a bachelor's or higher degree in the chemical sciences, including biochemistry, materials chemistry, and chemical engineering. Nominees must hold a full-time tenure-track academic appointment, and are normally expected to have been appointed no earlier than mid-year 2003. Awardees are from Ph.D. granting departments in which scholarly research is a principal activity. Undergraduate education is an important component of the nominee's activies. Institutions may submit only one Camille Dreyfus nomination annually.

Selection
The Foundation seeks Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars who demonstrate leadership in research and education. Nominations must provide compelling evidence of the advance of important knowledge in the chemical sciences by the nominee. Further, the nomination should describe dedication and contributions to education in the chemical sciences, particularly with respect to undergraduates.

Recommendations for awards are based primarily on the nominee's scholarly research achievements as an independent faculty member, as assessed by the Foundation's reviewers and the judgment of the nominee's peers exemplified by letters of recommendation. Other considered factors are: awards and honors, publication of research achievements in leading journals, and success in attracting funding of research. Nominations are reviewed by distinguished faculty in the chemical sciences. Current Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars.

Budget
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award provides a $75,000 unrestricted research grant. Of the total amount, $7,500 is for departmental expenses associated with research and education. Charges associated with indirect costs or institutional overhead are not allowed. Defrayal of academic-year salary is not permitted. Funds are normally expended over a period of five years. Foundation approval is not required for budgetary changes after an award is made. If the awardee leaves the institution, the transfer of the remaining funds requires prior Foundation approval.

Nomination Procedure
Institutions may make only one nomination annually for the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program. All nomination materials and letters of support must be received at the Foundation office by February 5, 2009. Nominations recommended for approval are presented to the Foundation's Board of Directors in time for award announcements by the end of April, 2009.

Required Information
Nomination package: The original nomination and five additional copies should be printed single-sided, on 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper, using 12-point font size, and assembled as:

1. The online nomination form (available January 2009)
2. A letter of nomination from an institutional representative highlighting the nominee's achievements, and the basis for selection (limited to three pages)
3. A summary description, with references, of the nominee's research accomplishments as an independent faculty member, and a description of research plans (limited to seven pages)
4. A statement intended to convince the reviewers of the nominee's dedication to education in the chemical sciences (limited to three pages)
5. A CV (limited to seven pages) including a list of publications in which independent contributions and undergraduate coauthors are clearly identified. Research support should be indicated
6. A budget (less than one page) describing how award funds will be used

Please fasten each copy of the nomination with one binder clip. The use of staples, paper clips, folders, colored paper or bond paper is discouraged.

Submit all nomination materials to:

Dr. Mark Cardillo, Executive Director
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
555 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10022-3301

Letters of support: Three letters of support should be printed single-sided, on 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper, using 12-point font size, and sent directly to the Foundation from individuals who know the nominee's capabilities and accomplishments. These letters cannot be accepted via electronic mail, facsimile, or if received with the nomination package. They should be sent to:

Dr. Mark Cardillo, Executive Director
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
555 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10022-3301

Due to the volume of mail received near the program deadline, the Foundation requests that you use a delivery service that provides proof of delivery.

Reports
A report is due at the end of the fifth year. Reports should be concise, printed single-sided, on 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper, using 12-point font size, and contain the following sections:

1. Highlights of research accomplishments during the award period and a description of any noteworthy accomplishments in chemistry education
2. Research plans
3. Categorical financial report (click here for categories)
4. An updated CV
5. An optional statement of newsworthy stories concerning the Teacher-Scholar during the period of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Submit the report by first-class mail to:

Dr. Mark Cardillo, Executive Director
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
555 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10022-3301

Additional information
1. Publications and presentations describing work supported by the award should acknowledge the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program.
2. Recipients of the award are designated Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars.
3. Procedural questions may be directed to the Foundation office by telephone at 212-753-1760 or e-mail at admin@dreyfus.org.