August 6, 2007

Justin Notestein, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has received a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award for 2007.

The Dreyfus New Faculty Awards "support the scholarly activity of new faculty with an award designed to help initiate their independent research programs. The New Faculty Award provides an unrestricted research grant of $50,000 that is generally made before the new faculty members formally begin their first tenure-track appointment, and is based on institutional nomination. The New Faculty Award Program is open to all academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America that grant a doctoral degree in chemistry, biochemistry, or chemical engineering. Faculty members who start their first tenure-track appointment in one of these departments in 2008 are eligible for nomination in 2008. Recommendations for awards are based on evidence that the nominee has the potential to produce an independent body of scientific scholarship of outstanding quality and will make significant contributions to overall education in the chemical sciences. Nominations are reviewed by distinguished faculty in the field of chemistry."*

*from the Dreyfus Foundation website