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

The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is seeking to fund a 1-2 year R&D program to address the roundtable initiatives in flow chemistry.  Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: photo redox chemistry, photochemistry, and biocatalysis in flow.

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The 3rd Annual Symposium and Workshop of the Global Green Chemistry Centres

The two-day event will consist of a range of talks, networking sessions and focused discussions.

Scientific breakthroughs:

Presentations from G2C2 members will provide short updates

Polaroid revolutionized traditional photography by compressing darkroom processes into an integrated film unit and producing a final photograph in the seconds following the click of a camera shutter. A symposium titled “Edwin Land and Instant Photography:

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 David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute^®

July has been an eventful month for sustainable and green chemistry. The 5th through the 8th I was privileged to be in Tokyo for the 7th International Conference on Green and Sustaina

Contributed by James Oristian, 2015 ACS Green Chemistry Institute^® Summer Intern

The theme of this month’s Nexus Newsletter is climate change, and how green chemistry can improve our relationship with our atmosphere. The earth is warmed by the sun in a pro

On Wednesday, July 15, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute^® (ACS GCI) hosted the final round of the 2015 Green Chemistry and Engineering Business Plan Competition. Three semi-finalists arrived at the 19th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference (G

On Wednesday evening of the 19th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute^® (ACS GCI)  Roundtables hosted the 5th Annual ACS GCI Roundtable Poster Reception, dedicated to green chemistry in industry.

The event was w

Sofinnova Partners, the top renewable chemistry venture capital firm, has announced that Glucan Biorenewables is the winner of the prestigious Renewable Chemistry Start-Up Award.  Following a public vote with almost 8,000 votes cast, the top 5 companies w

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

Article by Stacey Adams, Communications and PR Manager, Algenol

65 Nobel laureates recently signed a declaration stating that climate change poses a “threat of comparable magnitude” to nuclear war. And concluded, that “if left unchecked, will lead to whole

Ann Lee-Jeffs, Green Chemistry Program Manager at ACS Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) had an engaging interview with Rajiv Banavali,Chief Technology Officer, Fluorine Products at Honeywell about some of the exemplary new climate change-abating chemist

Contributed by Pietro Tundo, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Can chemical industry evolve from a producer of CO₂ to a consumer of CO₂ as a carbon source?

The urgency of anthropogenic climate change deserves more research att

Request for Proposal: The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is seeking to fund a 1-2 year R&D program to address the Roundtable’s initiatives in flow chemistry.  Areas of interest include, but are not limited to photo redox chemistry, photochemistry, and