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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 Champion Dave Long Remembered
By Christiana Briddell, Communications Portfolio Manager, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®

David C. Long, a long-time champion of green chemistry, passed away on September 5. His leadership driving green chemistry in industry contributed greatly to the impa

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Local Solutions for a Global Challenge: Clean Water and Sanitation in the Face of Climate Change
Contributed by Ashley Baker, Scientific Content and Community Manager (Contractor), ACS Green Chemistry Institute

To set the stage for the upcoming ACS Clean Water Summit on December 11, two of the organizers shared their perspectives on the biggest chall

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Is it Time to Let the Social Sciences into Green Chemistry More Drastically?
Contributed by Ashley Baker, Scientific Content and Community Manager (Contractor), ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Green chemistry is a dynamic field, evolving to meet the multifaceted challenges of ecological and social crises as they arise. Greater integ

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Message from the Director: ACS GCI and Change Chemistry at Climate Week NYC 2024
By Adelina Voutchkova, ACS Director of Sustainable Development and the Green Chemistry Institute

Dispatch on the inaugural Sustainability Leader Summit, ACS/EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, and December's upcoming ACS Clean Water Summit.

By Adelina

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Announces Eight 2024 Grant Winners
By Vittoria Valentine, ACS GCI Industry Portfolio Administrative Assistant

Eight researchers from the United States, Canada, and Europe have been awarded research grant funding totaling $480,000 from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundt

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Green Chemistry Education Modules for Thinking Beyond the Textbook
Contributed by David A. Laviska, Portfolio Manager for Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Education, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

The ACS GCI is addressing the urgent need for more green and sustainable chemistry throughout higher education, introduci

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
PFAS Degradation Technologies for Decontaminating Water
Contributed by Ashley Baker, Scientific Content and Community Manager (Contractor), ACS Green Chemistry Institute

As our virtual Clean Water Summit approaches on December 11, we had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Kimberly Heck about the promising resu

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Graduate Students Present 2025 Symposium “Bonds That Matter: Soft Materials for a Sustainable World"
Contributed by ACS GSSPC Spring 2025 Organizers Dallin Smith, Ethan Iverson, Danixa Rodriguez-Melendez, Maya Montemayor, and Sarah Fisher

From textiles to biomedical devices, soft materials can be found across industries. Research to make them more sustai

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Announcing the 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award Winners!
Contributed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Explore this year’s 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award (GCCA) winners, and join us in celebrating the creative solutions and sustainable practices they are contributing to the chemical enterprise.

Contri

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Data Sharing to Advance Sustainable and Green Chemistry
By Christiana Briddell, Communication Portfolio Manager, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

At the recent ACS Fall 2024 meeting held in August in Denver, Colorado, NSF's Division of Chemistry and the ACS jointly hosted a symposium with leaders from government,

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Proposed PFAS Restriction Signals Supply Chain Shift, Need for Innovation in Pharmaceutical Industry
By Cecilia Smith, Administrative Assistant, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Industry experts share how the European Chemicals Agency's recent proposed ban on PFAS stands to change the pharmaceutical industry and why addressing PFAS in supply chains is so co

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
ACS GCI Welcomes Founding Members to the Natural Polymers Roundtable
By Christiana Briddell, Portfolio Manager, Communications, ACS GCI, and Isamir Martinez, Sr. Scientific Alliances and Business Engagement Manager, ACS GCI

Natural polymers are of high interest as biobased feedstocks, materials, packaging, and consumer pro

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
At the nexus of green chemistry and environmental justice, everyone has something to contribute.
Contributed by Jarod Davis, Global Policy Director, Social Equity at Dow

Co-Authored with Ashley Baker, Scientific Content Manager (Contractor) at the ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Jarod Davis, Global Policy Director, Social Equity at Dow, shared his jour

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards: Impacts and Success Stories
Contributed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Highlighting three decades of benefits to human health and the environment, cross-sector collaboration, and innovation for the future.

In May 2024, leaders from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E

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ACSGCI
Honored Contributor
Advancing Circularity through the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
Contributed by Edmond Lam, Assistant Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

As this year’s winners convene in just two weeks at Climate Week NYC for the 2024 EPA/ACS Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Ceremony, we’re simultaneously preparing to welcome app

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