Contributed by Nathaniel Beres, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Heidelberg University

I don’t remember hearing about green chemistry as an undergraduate, and if I did, I would have thought that it meant I should recycle. It wasn’t until graduate school t

The ACS Green Chemistry Institute^® is proud to announce the 2015 Ciba Travel Award Winners: Brooke Mason, Tova Williams, Brendan Phillips and Ryan Pearson.

The Ciba Travel award sponsors the participation of students—from high school through graduate schoo

The word is out. Green chemistry has caught on, and the field has grown tremendously since it first emerged in the 1990s. The question now is where are we going with all this momentum?

On September 18, 2015, we took an important first step in the roadmappi

Contributed by Cathleen M. Fry, Dallas R. Mosier, and Edward P. Zovinka, Department of Chemistry, Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA

Before arriving at Saint Francis University (SFU), many of our Chemistry Club members have never heard of green chemistr

This year the American Chemical Society and chemists around the world are celebrating National Chemistry Week (NCW) in color! The 2015 NCW theme is "Chemistry Colors Our World", focusing on the chemistry of food colors, fireworks, rainbows, natural dyes,

Contributed by Laura M. Reyes, Ph.D. student and Green Chemistry Initiative Co-chair, University of Toronto.

As chemistry students advance through their education, they train and specialize to become better scientists. For those who pursue graduate school,

Contributed by Ashley Baker, Research Assistant, ACS Green Chemistry Institute^®

The ACS Green Chemistry Institute^® has become a hub for green chemistry education and for students and educators to find new ways to integrate green chemistry into their curric

Contributed by Irvin J. Levy, Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair, Gordon College.

Green Chemistry Principle #9 – Catalysis. As I look at the adventure that I have had over the past 25 years mentoring the ACS student chapter at Gordon College, eith

The 19th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference sparked an enthusiastic buzz around green chemistry education leading us up to the first education roadmap visioning workshop. The roadmap for green chemistry education project is a broad-scale, c

Every year the ACS Green Chemistry Institute^® (ACS GCI) awards students pursuing green chemistry and engineering research grants and travel funding to present their research at green chemistry and engineering conferences. This year, ACS GCI awarded four p

Contributed by Ashley Baker, Intern, ACS Green Chemistry Institute^®

Early Monday morning, leading up to the 19th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference (GC&E), this year’s student workshop began with nearly seven dozen alphabetized nametags and

Contributed by Kimberly Gervase, Executive Director, North Carolina Science Olympiad, and Melissa Pasquinelli, PhD, 2013 Chair of the North Carolina section of ACS.

Thanks to a generous grant from the ACS and the extensive resources available on the Climat

Contributed by Keith Peterman, Professor of Chemistry, York College of Pennsylvania

Climate change is the defining sustainability issue of our time.  Today’s youth are the first generation to feel the adverse impacts of climate change. And, in the words o

You are here. The red dot at the edge of a map. You’re not quite sure where you’re going and there’s no clear path to get to the yet unknown destination. The first step, now, is to visualize where you’d like to go. Then you can plan, draw the roads, and w

Contributed by Mingxin Liu, graduate student at McGill University

Oxidation of aldehyde towards carboxylic acid is a very common reaction in organic chemistry. At the same time, it is also an unavoidable element of the bio-metabolic pathway. In cytoplasm,