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Message from the Director

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‎08-17-2017 09:18 AM

Contributed by Mary M. Kirchhoff, Ph.D., Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®; Executive Vice President of Scientific Advancement, ACS

Summer is always a busy season for the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® (GCI), and this year was no exception. My colleagues and I enjoyed seeing so many of you in June at the 21st Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference. Your feedback on the technical symposia, networking events and poster sessions in Reston are already helping to shape next year’s conference, which is being chaired by Julie Haack from the University of Oregon and Richard Blackburn from the University of Leeds. The 22nd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference will be returning to Portland, Oregon from June 18-20, 2018.

The Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy was held the week following the conference at the Colorado School of Mines. Fifty-three graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from the U.S., Canada and Latin America participated in the week-long program. Participants presented their research during poster sessions, engaged in lectures on specific topics in green chemistry and sustainable energy, and conducted a modified Life Cycle Analysis to determine the “greenest” pathway toward a target molecule. Presentations on careers, publishing, and proposal writing rounded out the week – along with a white water rafting trip.  The program is supported by a generous grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund.

I was thrilled to attend last month’s Green & Sustainable Chemistry (GSC-8) Conference in Melbourne, Australia. The conference was part of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s Centenary Congress, an event that encompassed nine conferences and engaged approximately 3,500 attendees, making it the largest chemistry conference ever held in Australia! The GSC-8 Conference was highly international, with plenary talks delivered by scientists from Australia, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, the UK and the US. I am delighted that the next Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference (GSC-9) will be held in 2019 in conjunction with the 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in Reston, Virginia.

We are now finalizing preparations for the ACS National Meeting, which begins in Washington, D.C., this week. Numerous symposia feature green chemistry talks, and I encourage you search the program by topic (green chemistry) to identify symposia of interest to you. We look forward to seeing you in Washington over the coming week!

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