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The Nexus Blog and Newsletter is published by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® to connect and expand the global green chemistry and engineering community. Learn more about us: www.acs.org/gci.
amandanurmi
New Contributor III
Professor Shannon Stahl: The pathway to PGCCA

The 2014 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards (PGCCA) have come and gone, celebrating the innovative research and accomplishments made by chemists in industry and academia. Among these chemists, Dr. Shannon Stahl, winner in the Academic category,

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
2014 Ciba Travel Award Winners

Drexel University, Yale, Augsburg College, and University of Massachusetts Students win Competitive Green Chemistry Travel Award

Four out of 33 U.S. students have been chosen to receive the 2014 Ciba Travel Award in Green Chemistry. These students, ranging

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CBriddell
Contributor III
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award Winners Announced!

This year's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards were given today during a ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building in the District of Columbia. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency holds these awards annually to recognize companies, small busi

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Internationally Recognized U-M Sustainable Labs Program Cuts Energy and Waste

Contributed by Sudhakar G. Reddy, Ph.D., Coordinator, Sustainable Labs, University of Michigan

The University of Michigan Office of Campus Sustainability Sustainable Labs program earned the 2014 "Go Beyond Award" (pictured below) during the International I

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amandanurmi
New Contributor III
2013-2014 Student Chapter Green Chemistry Award Winners

Throughout the 2013-2014 school year 97 undergraduate ACS Student Chapters achieved their goals to complete different green chemistry activities. To recognize their achievements, ACS Green Chemistry Institute® in partnership with ACS Education has present

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Two Students from UC Berkeley Win the Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award

Heather Buckley and Florence Chardon were selected from a competitive group of applicants to receive the 2014 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award. The award ceremony was held at the 18th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference on June 17 in Bethesda

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savsullivan
Contributor
Enabling Green Chemistry Innovation from the Start(up)

On Wednesday, June 18, the ACS GCI hosted the final round of the 2014 Green Chemistry and Engineering Business Plan Competition. Four semi-finalists arrived at the 18th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Bethesda, MD to present their bus

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savsullivan
Contributor
ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Grants $150K for Green Chemistry Research

Last year the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable sent a call for proposals, seeking to fund projects that are developing alternatives for widely employed transition metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions (the assembly of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroat

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k_lindblom
New Contributor III
Thomas Edison’s botanical laboratory to be recognized as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in Fort Myers

The American Chemical Society will recognize Thomas Edison’s botanical research laboratory as a National Historic Chemical Landmark on Sunday, May 25, 2014, at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Fla. As early as the 1920s, Edison put green ch

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