Kolomeisky awarded 2000 Dreyfus New Faculty Award

Kolomeisky awarded 2000 Dreyfus New Faculty Award

Anatoly Kolomeisky,
assistant professor, Dept. of Chemistry, and a fellow with
the Rice Quantum Institute, has been awarded a Camille and
Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award for 2000.

Out of 77 nominees,
Kolomeisky was one of only 15 new-faculty awardees selected
by the board of directors of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Foundation Inc., which is dedicated to the advancement of
the chemical sciences.

The new-faculty
awards program is designed to provide external research
support to new faculty no later than the beginning of their
first full-time academic appointments. The $40,000 awards
help outstanding scientists realize their promise as educators.

Kolomeisky,
who joined the Rice faculty in July, received his bachelor
of science degree from Moscow State University in Russia
and his master’s and doctorate degrees in chemistry
from Cornell University. His research is on generalized
theoretical statistical mechanical methods for the understanding
of biological transport.