Professor So Hirata receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

Assistant Professor So Hirata is a recipient of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a prestigious award given to talented young faculty in chemical sciences with the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching.

The award provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000 in support of Hirata's research on the developments and applications of predictive electronic and vibrational many-body methods for molecules and macromolecules. Hirata joined the University of Florida faculty in 2004. His research has also been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund.