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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.
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Green Chemistry…Essential for Academia and Industry

In this keynote from the 2023 GC&E Conference, Professor Helen Sneddon reflects on similarities and differences she’s seen in green chemistry moving from industry to academia and highlights four themes that are integral to developing a circular economy.

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New Workshop Empowers Chemistry Educators to Embrace Green Chemistry Principles

The workshop, coming to ACS Fall 2023 and led by David A. Laviska, equips chemistry educators to embrace green chemistry principles and meet the new guidelines for ACS-certified chemistry degrees.

 

 

 

The ACS Committee on Professional Training (CPT)

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Decarbonizing Chemicals: Overcoming Hurdles and Pioneering Sustainable Solutions in Green Chemistry

At this year’s GC&E keynote speaker, Sean Hunt, CTO of Solugen, discusses challenges and potential for innovation relevant to decarbonizing the chemicals industry.

Decarbonizing the chemical industry is a pressing task in the pursuit of counteracting c

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Message from the Director: A Green Chemistry Summer
By Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal, Director, Office of Sustainability, ACS

The Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference followed by the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy made for a busy and fun June and July!

Dear colleagues and frien

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ACSGCI
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Corteva Accelerates Sustainability Through Green Design
By Nicholas Babij, Process Chemist, Corteva Agriscience

As a global leader in agricultural solutions, Corteva Agriscience is committed to developing technologies to help farmers sustainably increase the production of healthy food and minimize the environm

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Announcing the 2023 Heh-Won Chang Ph.D. Fellowship in Green Chemistry Winners
By David Laviska, Portfolio Manager for Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Education, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

The Chang Fellowship provides national recognition for two outstanding graduate student scholars who have shown superior quality in thei

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Bringing Global Industrial Collaboration to Indianapolis
By Isamir Martinez and Christiana Briddell, ACS Green Chemistry Institute
 

What does the pharma and agricultural industry have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out. Much of the value that green chemistry and engineering bring to the development of activ

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Students are Green Chemistry Leaders in Toronto
By Francisco Yarur (Graduate Student at the University of Toronto) with an introduction by David A. Laviska (ACS Green Chemistry Institute)

As described in the summary that follows, proactive, creative students at the University of Toronto have been focu

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Message from the Director: The ACS GCI Advisory Board
By Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal, Director, Office of Sustainability & Green Chemistry Institute, American Chemical Society

Over the last two decades, the GCI has been able to tap into diverse, expert advice from professionals in the green chemistry field acr

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Reimagine Chemistry Education for a Sustainable Future
By Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal, David A. Laviska, and Christiana Briddell, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

 

Chemistry education is undergoing a transformation. To support this change, we highlight our campaign to bring new resources and focus on green chemi

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ACS GCI Launches the Natural Polymers Consortium
By Isamir Martinez, Sr. Portfolio Manager, Scientific Alliances and Business Engagement, ACS GCI, and Christiana Briddell, Portfolio Manager, Sustainability & Green Chemistry Communication, ACS GCI

The ACS Green Chemistry Institute, in partnership with in

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Kick-Start Your Career with a Petroleum Research Grant
By Nancy Jensen, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Research Grants

The ACS Office of Research Grants administers the Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grant which provides grants for fundamental research related to petroleum-derived materials in one of ten specified

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Why Greener Chemistry Education Matters—and How to Support It
By Amy Cannon, Ph.D., Co-founder and Executive Director, Beyond Benign, and Jeffrey Whitford, VP of Sustainability and Social Business Innovation, MilliporeSigma, (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)

 

New expanded partnership between global green chemistry n

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GC3 is now Change Chemistry
Joel Tickner, Executive Director, Change Chemistry

In April, after a year’s worth of research and member engagement, the Green Chemistry & Commerce Council (GC3) formerly rebranded as Change Chemistry.

Joel Tickner, Executive Director, Change Chemistry

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Meet Prof. Gyorgy Szekely: Sustainable Separations

Prof. Szekely won a 2023 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award and will be presenting his research in a keynote at the 27th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in Long Beach, CA on June 15.

Prof. Szekely won a 2023 ACS Su

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