By Laura Hoch and Melanie Mastronardi, PhD Students at the University of Toronto    

In the fall of 2012, we founded the Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI), a student group dedicated to raising awareness about green chemistry, in order to promote sustainabl

Its opening night and green chemistry enthusiasts scurry to take their seats.  The wait is finally over!  The stage is set, the houselights dim, and the curtain slowly opens… There they are; shoulders squared and standing tall.  They are the elect, the ch

The Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship is awarded to undergraduate through early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding research or educational interest in green chemistry. Breen Fellows receive financial support to participate in an international gr

By United Soybean Board (USB)

Innovation and Agriculture Grow Together for Those Who "Think Soy"

“Biobased products have the potential to help our nation further distance itself from its dependence on imported petroleum,” said Kyle Thompson, a student at Mi

Some of the most enthusiastic green chemistry advocates you can find anywhere are the undergraduate ACS Student Chapter members. At the recent ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, I had a chance to meet many of these students and hear what they are doing

By Emily Hong, Yale University

Any college student who has ever had to cook and fend for themselves knows the advantages of one-pot cooking. One-pot cooking means no complex culinary wrangling of ingredients or excessive rounds of prep-work: Drop the goods

By Alex Co, undergrad chemistry major at Yale University

To see some of the planet’s most picturesque scenery, you will have to take a trip below sea level. Often called “rainforests of the sea”, coral reefs are among the Earth’s most diverse ecosystems.

By Sudhakar Reddy, Ph.D., Coordinator - Sustainable Labs, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Like most higher education institutions across the country, lab operations at the University of Michigan (UM) typically consume 4 to 8 times more energy when compa

By Federico H. Cova, PhD Candidate at Balseiro Institute, Argentina

When working in the field of alternative energy sources it is usual to think only in the part of the process in which the research is centered. From this view, you can always say that what

Every year, students from all over the world come to the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy. This year, one student from Brazil, Thaíla de Mello Florêncio, took her knowledge gained from the program and co-authored a paper with her

by Jane Dmochowski, Ph.D., Managing Director, VIPER

Pictured from left to right VIPER class of 2016: Anjali Khetan, Eric Lu, Meehir Pathare, Albert Xiao,
Julia Fordham, David (Jin Soo) Lim, Gerardo Cedillo Servin, and Connor Lippincott.

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