By David A. Laviska, Portfolio Manager for Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Education, ACS Green Chemistry Institute
Andrew P. Dicks, Ph.D., Professor at University of Toronto, is the winner of the 2025 Career Achievement in Green Chemistry Education
... moreStudent and instructor winners of the 2025 ACS Green Chemistry Institute and Office of Sustainability awards have been selected. A stand
Explore this year’s 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award (GCCA) winners, and join us in celebrating the creative solutions and sustainable practices they are contributing to the chemical enterprise.
Contri
... moreHighlighting three decades of benefits to human health and the environment, cross-sector collaboration, and innovation for the future.
In May 2024, leaders from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E
... moreAs this year’s winners convene in just two weeks at Climate Week NYC for the 2024 EPA/ACS Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Ceremony, we’re simultaneously preparing to welcome app
Join us in celebrating this year’s winners of the Nina McClelland Memorial Award and the Heh-Won Chang, Ph.D. Fellowship in Green Chemistry! Read more about the winners of the 2024 awards and their research projects in Part 2 of our student awards blog p
The green chemistry community celebrated the winners of ACS GCI’s five student awards at GC&E in Atlanta, GA, during the conference’s first-ever Opening Night Awards Ceremony on June 2, 2024.
LaTrease Garrison, ACS’s Chief Operating Officer, gave openin
We are delighted to announce the inaugural winner of the "Career Achievement in Green Chemistry Education" award! Dr. Jane Wissinger
The ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable announces PharmaBlock, Nanjing, China, as the winner of their 2024 CMO Excellence in Green Chemistry Award. Winning teams from GSK, Collegeville, Pa., and Boehrin
We're thrilled to announce that a team from Bristol Myers Squibb is being recognized with the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable's first-ever Data Sciences and Modeling Award for Green Chemistry. Read
By Dr. Sederra Ross, Associate, ACS Green Chemistry Institute
We are happy to announce the recipients of the 2023 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Awards. These awards honor the scientific accomplishments of scientists working in green c
... moreBy EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Deputy Assistant Administrator Jennie Romer
As a sustainability expert, author, and the first-ever Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention at EPA, I’m thrilled to announce the opening of nominations for the 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards are a way for EPA to bring attention to groundbreaking scientific solutions that are making a positive impact on human health and the environment.
moreBy Matthew Deinhardt, ACS Green Chemistry Institute
Returning to an in-person, hybrid meeting this year, we were thrilled to have an in-person Student Poster Award Competition again. While presenting at the Poster Session, students’ research was reviewed by judges for outstanding and superior research and effort in green and sustainable chemistry and engineering. Many thanks to our poster judges: Prof. Tova Williams of NC State, Prof. Alan Allgeier of the University of Kansas, and Dr. Daniela Blanco, who is the CEO of Sunthetics. The poster session and reception was sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim with prizes generously provided by The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and DeGruyter.
Great Chukwudalu Umenweke of the University of Kentucky pictured with judges Pof. Bova and Prof. Allgeier (Photo Credit: Arthur Lemmon)
Over the last decade, a steady shift towards a more global pharmaceutical supply chain has occurred. Today, a significant portion of API manufacturing is carried out by contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), many located in Asian countries.
The ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR), established in 2005, is a leading partnership between the ACS Green Chemistry Institute and over 40 pharmaceutical and allied companies committed to catalyzing green chemistry and engineering in the industry.
moreA team from Merck in Rahway, NJ is the recipient of the 2022 Peter J. Dunn Award for Green Chemistry and Engineering Impact in the Pharmaceutical Industry for their work, “From wood pulp to a candidate medicine: Green manufacturing technologies enable the production of investigational leukemia drug nemtabrutinib from a biorenewable commodity material.”
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