Chemist Keary Engle receives Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award
May 08, 2019
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing chemical sciences, has selected Scripps Research faculty member Keary Engle, PhD, for the 2019 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
“This Teacher-Scholar Award is the foundation’s flagship program,” says Mark Cardillo, PhD, executive director of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. “The award supports exceptional young academic researchers at an early and crucial stage of their careers. They are selected based on their independent contributions to both research in the chemical sciences and engineering, and education.”
Engle’s research is focused on organic chemistry methods, seeking to streamline the synthesis of new complex molecules that could be applied in pharmaceuticals or agriculture. In addition to his contributions to the field, Engle is highly dedicated to teaching. Aside from his active role within Scripps Research’s graduate program, he regularly educates undergraduate students through the institute’s SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows) program, as well as middle and high school students through various outreach efforts.
This isn’t the first time Engle has been recognized for his commitment to educating the younger generation of scientists; he also won the 2017 Scripps Research Outstanding Mentor Award. “I think the role of a mentor is to believe in the people I’m mentoring more than they believe in themselves,” he said when receiving the award. “I try to encourage mentees to be the best possible version of themselves that they can be.”
Since its introduction in 1970, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award program has provided over $50 million in funding to assist emerging scientific leaders who span a broad range of contemporary chemistry research.
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