2021-2022 Teddy Traylor Awards

Congratulations to our 2021-22 Teddy Traylor Award recipients, Kyle Angle (Grassian Lab), Stella Seo (Cohen Lab), Krista Balto (Figueroa Lab), and Taylor Steele (Moore Lab)! Like many of our founding faculty members, Teddy Traylor, a pioneer in organometallic chemistry, has a remarkable history. He was born in Sulphur, Oklahoma, but never graduated from high school. He briefly worked at Dow Chemical Co. before becoming the first assistant professor at UCSD in 1961. Professor Traylor taught organic chemistry courses, and incorporated innovative teaching methods, such as using a banjo to illustrate the wave-like properties of electrons.