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March 5, 2015
2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
April 13-15, 2015
Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany
April 23-24, 2015
Troutdale, Oregon, USA
May 3-7, 2015
La Rochelle, France
June 3-5, 2015
York, UK
June 17-24, 2015
Golden, Colorado, USA
July 13, 2015
Washington, DC, USA
December 15-20, 2015
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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European Chemicals Agency rejects criticism it is not doing enough to control harmful substances
The Alabama chemist has taken his model for applied academic research to Canada
Biofuels: Yeast designed to ferment compounds found in treated biomass could boost biofuel production
VF Corporation debuted a chemical management initiative that could be a game changer for the industry
Combines ultra-high lubricity characteristics required for aerospace alloys with green chemistry technologies
New technique using potassium tert-butoxide to help create a host of products
A remote monitoring solution SPMCTM and the green chemistry of Professional Water TechnologiesTM to operate the plant
Warner will present "Green Chemistry: Helping Create a Safer, More Sustainable Future"
Queen's University Belfast - Institute for Global Food Security and the QUILL Research Centre
Caltech chemists discovered method for producing silicon-containing organic chemicals without relying on expensive precious metal catalysts.
A recap of the two-day national conference on 'Frontier Avenues in Chemistry and Environment' at the Dwarka Auditorium in DG Vaishnav College
Interview with green chemist and YouTube sensation Professor Martyn Poliakoff who was knighted last month
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Entrepreneurial Resources Center (ERC): Save the Dates
The ACS Entrepreneurial Resources C enter (ERC) is an accelerator that helps chemistry-based startups bring their innovations to market in three main ways. You can:
1. Apply to the ERC Program for free scientific and business resources if you are an ACS member entrepreneur looking to refine your pitch and grow your company.
2. Pitch to angel investors and corporate scouts at our semiannual Showcases, the next of which will be on Tuesday, April 21 at JLABS San Diego.
3. Join us and other stakeholders at our annual summit in September to discuss chemistry innovation and entrepreneurship.
More information about these events can be found on the ERC website.
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Research Experience for Undergraduates
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 summer of 2015.
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Message from the Director:
LAUNCHing Innovation
By David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®
In late January I had the opportunity to attend the LAUNCH forum. This year the LAUNCH partners developed a green chemistry challenge and through a well-established process identified 10 innovators to participate in this year's forum. These 10 innovators started by making a pitch to the LAUNCH council members in attendance and then rotated from group to group to solicit feedback.
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The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Celebrates its 10th Year
By Christiana Briddell, Communications Manager, ACS GCI
In the early 2000s, the director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®, Dr. Paul Anastas, initiated a discussion with the Dr. Berkeley "Buzz" Cue, a leader in green chemistry at Pfizer, about the possibility of starting a collaborative group that would work to catalyze the broader adoption of green chemistry and engineering in the pharmaceutical industry. These discussions turned into meetings, and in 2005 the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable was established.
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Webinar: Making Plastic Greener
Through Next Generation Polymers
Join ACS Webinars and the ACS GCI on March 5th from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST for a webinar about sustainable polymers and next generation feedstocks. In this presentation Dr. Marc Hillmyer will introduce the Center for Sustainable Polymers and give an overview of the current research portfolio aimed at the discovery of efficient and precision conversions of renewable raw materials into innovative polymeric products that outperform the current suite of non-sustainable polymers from performance, environmental and cost perspectives.
CALLING ALL ACS STUDENT CHAPTERS: This event qualifies as a Green Student Chapter activity. Check the Facebook event and stay tuned for details!
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Recap of the 5th Asia-Oceania Conference
By Professor R. K. Sharma, University of Delhi, Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of Chemistry (London), North India Section Coordinator, Green Chemistry Network Centre
The 5th Asia-Oceania Conference, jointly organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London; North India Section, Green Chemistry Network Centre, New Delhi; and The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, formally began on 15th January in a spectacular manner at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
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Pacifichem: "Sustainable Chemistry:
Beyond the bench" Call for Papers
The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies will be held December 15-20, 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Call for papers for the symposium, "Sustainable Chemistry: Beyond the bench" is open until April 3, 2015. Symposium organizers include Martin Abraham, Michael Gonzalez, Philip Jessop, and Milton Hearn.
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Call for Papers Closes March 13th
There are three weeks left to submit your paper to be presented at the 19th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference!
Deadline Approaching: 2015 GC&E Business Plan Competition
If you are forming an early stage company which is reimagining chemistry and innovating for a sustainable future, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®encourages you to apply. Contestants must submit an executive summary of no more than 10-15 PowerPoint slides, including any graphs and charts. All contestants must also submit a company pitch via a two to three minute video. Videos must be uploaded to either YouTube or Vimeo. Executive summaries and videos must be submitted to Savannah Sullivan with "Business Plan Competition" as the subject by March 13, 2015 at 5:00 PM EST (GMT -4).
GC&E Volunteer Opportunity!
ACS GCI is calling for volunteers for GC&E, and would like for you to be a part of the action! As a conference volunteer, we will ask you to work four hours and you will receive access to the general conference proceedings for the rest of the day you volunteer. Assistance is needed in the following areas: On site conference registration, technical sessions, roundtable reception, hybrid meeting session, and more. For more information, please visitwww.gcande.org/registration/volunteer-opportunities. Teamwork makes the dream work!
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EPA Delves Deeper into Corporate Sustainability Data
By Daniel Teitelbaum, Pollution Prevention Team Lead, Toxics Release Inventory Program, US EPA
For more than two decades, EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program has required industrial facilities to disclose both their environmental releases and the measures they've taken to keep toxic chemicals out of our air, water, and land. It was only recently, however, that the TRI Program began promoting this treasure trove of pollution prevention (P2) data as a resource for identifying demonstrably-effective green practices. More than 10,000 source reduction activities are reported to TRI each year, but can we tell which ones actually reduce releases?
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ToxCast and Public Health Toxicology
By Marie Bourgeois PhD, MPH Research Assistant Professor Center for Environmental/Occupational, Risk Analysis and Management Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of South Florida College of Public Health
For decades, the development of new chemicals has outpaced our ability to adequately assess risks potentially posed by exposure. Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs), set by OSHA to protect the health of America's workforce, are a great example of the existing backlog. Fewer than 600 PELs have been established for common industrial chemicals. However, the Chemical and Product Categories database (CPCat) has catalogued over 40,000 chemicals currently used in different consumer products. While every effort is made to assure the safety of these chemicals, toxicity information is limited or absent for the majority of these compounds.
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20 Years of Pharma in PGCCA
By Savannah Sullivan, Research Associate, ACS GCI
This month we have dedicated The Nexus to green chemistry and public health, and at the nexus of these issues is the pharmaceutical industry and their innovation processes. As an industry dedicated to developing products that can save people's lives, typically the primary priority in the innovation process has been ensuring that the drug works rather than guaranteeing that the synthesis will lead to the most efficient or safest possible manufacturing process. Therefore what often goes unrecognized in the drug discovery phase is that huge amounts of waste are generated can be generated in pharmaceutical production processes, and that waste (including volatile organic solvents) can be toxic or difficult to manage.
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Sustainable Approaches in the Dyeing and
Textile Industry in India: Part 2
Recently we asked Dr. C.N. Sivaramakrishnan, a distinguished senior scientist from the Society of Dyes & Colorists in India to respond to some questions to give us a sense of the sustainability challenges and opportunities in the dyeing industry in India. The ACS GCI published Part One in January 2015 and below it Part Two.
Q: Is there a particular case study that you would highlight as a success story [of more sustainable dyeing in India]?
A: Arvind Mills is one of the largest integrated textile mills in India and popular for producing world renowned 'Denim' brand jeans. It supplies to almost all the famous jeans, trousers, and garments making units in the world. The unit is located at a distance of approximately 40 kms away from the city of Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India and has been set up on 385 acres of land.
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ACS GCI Industrial Roundtables Year in Review
The ACS Green Chemistry Institute® would like to thank the 43 corporations that worked collaboratively and non-competitively throughout 2014 to catalyze the integration of sustainable and green chemistry and engineering in the global chemical enterprise.
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Gluing You Back Together Again: The chemistry behind
TissuGlu, the first FDA approved internal tissue adhesive
By Eric J. Beckman, Bevier Professor Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh; Co-Director, Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation; Co-founder, Cohera Medical Inc.
On February 4 of this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved TissuGlu, the primary product being developed by Cohera Medical Inc., as the first internal tissue adhesive authorized for use in the United States. The approval this year is the culmination of over eight years of laboratory and clinical developments by the company that Michael Buckley (oral and maxillofacial surgeon) and I spun out of the University of Pittsburgh in late 2005.
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Howard University International Collaborations
in Drug Discovery and Development
By Tiffany N. Ellison, Joseph M. Fortunak, Fred 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 Howard University (HU) in Washington, DC. This communication is an update on that story. Last year (2014) Dr. Fortunak estimates he was in nineteen countries including Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Nicaragua, Brazil, Switzerland, and China. Before joining HU in 2004, Dr. Fortunak spent over twenty years in the pharmaceutical industry, contributing to the launch of over a dozen new drugs and a similar number of new generic products during that time.
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Deadline Extended: Green Chemistry Student Awards
The deadline for the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® student awards, the Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship and Kenneth Hancock Memorial Award, has been extended to March 13, 2015!
The Breen Award sponsors young, international green chemistry scholars to participate in an international green chemistry technical meeting, conference or training program. The stu dent is awarded up to $2,000, based on estimated travel fees. The Hancock Award provides national recognition for outstanding student contributions to furthering the goals of green chemistry through research and/or studies. The recipient of the award receives $1000 plus travel and registration to the Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference held in the Washington, D.C. area July, 2015.
Also, do not forget to apply for the National Science Foundation Student Travel Scholarship with the chance to receive up to $1,000 in order to attend GC&E!For more details on this award please visit www.gcande.org/students.
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ACS Summer School on Green
Chemistry & Sustainable Energy
The 2015 American Chemical Society (ACS) Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy will explore scientific solutions to global.png) challenges, with a special emphasis on sustainable energy. The program will be held June 17-24, 2015 at the Colorado School Of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
Participants will engage in a variety of activities designed to provide a solid foundation in green chemistry and sustainable energy, including presentations by leading researchers and educators, collaborative projects, student presentations, and discussions on the role of science and technology in solving global sustainability challenges. Application deadline: March 6, 2015. For more information and details on applying to the Summer School, please visit thewebsite or contact gceducation@acs.org
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