On October 22, 2024, Christina Vizcarra, associate professor of chemistry, was named a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
The award honors young faculty in the chemical sciences who have amassed an outstanding independent body of scholarship and demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate education. Vizcarra’s biophysical chemistry lab studies the mechanism of cytoskeleton-regulating formin proteins and their inhibitors, whose applications include understanding inherited deafness. As a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, Vizcarra will receive an unrestricted $75,000 research grant to support her work.
Vizcarra is one of nine chemists honored by the foundation this year and is now the third current member of Barnard’s Chemistry Department whose excellence as a teacher-scholar has been recognized with this particular award, alongside Rachel Narehood Austin (2004) and Michael Campbell (2021).