Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions: Topics & Updates

2009 Global Challenges Updates

• Promoting Public Health: Saving lives with the first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles

• Providing safe foods: “Killer spices” provide eco-friendly pesticides for organic fruits and veggies

• Promoting Public Health: Sandcastle worm’s secrets could yield new medical adhesive

• Confronting Climate change: “Green” roofs can help fight global warming

• Confronting Climate Change: Smoke to soak up future oil spills

• Promoting Public Health: Redefining DNA: Darwin from the atom up

• Providing Safe Foods: Making grapefruit juice safer for people who take certain prescription drugs

• Global Climate Change: The Quest for Permanent Solutions

• Combating disease: Much more than pasta and potatoes

• Promoting Personal Safety & National Security: Another “Mother of Satan?”

• Our Sustainable Future: Small generator, big applications

• Promoting Personal Safety & National Security: Targeting ricin

2008 Global Challenges Topics

• The Crises in Clean Water: Water Purification

• Water Desalination: Freshwater from the Sea

• Confronting Climate Change: Stopgas Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Confronting Climate Change: The Quest for Permanent Solutions

• Our Sustainable Future

• Promoting Personal Safety & National Security

• Combating Disease

• New Fuels: Biofuels

• New Fuels: The Sun and More

• Providing Safe Foods

• Providing Nutritious Foods

• Promoting Public Health