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Advancing Green Chemistry Education

The green chemistry education project group explores ways to embed green chemistry in university and professional education as well as in research, education, and development funding programs.  Two projects have been selected for the coming year:

Advancing Business Support 

The group will develop an industry "policy statement" in support of green chemistry education at the university level.  The goal of this project is to develop a policy statement that can be widely supported by chemical companies, product manufacturers, and retailers supporting the need for:

  • The establishment of green chemistry education programs at the university level, and
  • Graduates of institutions with green chemistry education programs being preferentially treated in the market place, all other aspects of education being consistent

In developing the statement, the group will interview industry and green chemistry education experts and will then conduct outreach for support of the policy statement once it is written.  This policy statement will provide synergies with Beyond Benign's university compact for green chemistry education.

Green Chemistry and Safer Alternatives Boot Camp

The project group will develop curriculum for a 3-4 day green chemistry and safer alternatives boot camp to be held in summer 2012.  The curriculum will be tailored to a broad technically savvy audience from material designers and chemists to regulatory affairs experts, and will include both concepts of molecular design, alternatives assessment, and implementation.  The curriculum will be based on adult learner concepts with active learning and case studies.  Curriculum development will involve the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, Beyond Benign, UC Berkeley, the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute, and the GC3 project group among others.

 

For more information or to join the project group, contact Joel Tickner.

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