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,

Contributed by Tiffany N. Ellison, Joseph R. Fortunak, Frederick E. Nytko III, Howard University, Department of Chemistry

Some time ago (December, 2012) we published a story about the work being done by Professor Joseph Fortunak and his research group at H

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at Michigan State University invites applications from undergraduate students interested in a career in bioenergy to participate in their Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program during the sum

Are you a student looking to be recognized for your efforts in green chemistry research? If so, there are two awards administered by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® to look into!

The ACS GCI Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship Award sponsors young, interna

Contributed by David Mody, TEAM Director and Oxana Shibaeva, TEAM Program Associate

Every year, since 1995, senior undergraduate students from engineering, geology, environmental studies, biology, commerce and law, partner with industry to work on the most

Contributed by Adam Halpert, Manager - Research, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management, McGill Univeristy

While green chemistry is typically seen as the domain of chemists and chemical engineers, social scientists are actively exploring the

Over the past several months, I’ve been traveling from coast to coast and abroad discussing the idea of a green chemistry and engineering education roadmap. The concept of a roadmap has emerged from listening to the needs of the green chemistry community.

Chemistry has historically been considered a discipline that could guarantee you a job. When chemistry is everything, how could it ever be otherwise? Unfortunately, in recent years in the United States we have begun to observe "otherwise." In 2012, an Ame