ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars explore scientific solutions to global challenges at the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy. Transportation, meals, and housing are provided.

Participants will:

• Hear presentations by leading researchers in sustainability and green chemistry
• Collaborate on problem solving projects
• Participate in laboratory experiments
• Present your research during poster sessions
• Engage in discussions on the role of science and technology in solving global sustainability challenges

2009 Summer School

The 2009 program was held July 22-30 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.

Speaker Presentations

• Greening the Pharmaceutical Industry
  Berkeley W. Cue, BWC Pharma Consulting LLC
• Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant of the Future (In Search of the Science of Scale)
  Berkeley W. Cue, BWC Pharma Consulting LLC
• Metrics Gone Wild
  Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh
• Eco-Innovation & Product Design
  Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh
• Green Solvents (request presentation)
  Philip Jessop, Queen’s University
• Inspired by Nature and Some Other Stuff…
  Thomas H. Lane, Dow Corning Corporation
• Value of Green Chemistry in a Business Environment
  Roger McFadden, Staples Inc.
• Nanoscale Materials and Catalysis
  Ryan Richards, Colorado School of Mines
• A Sustainable Energy Future
  John A. Turner, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• The Story of our Sustainability
  Katie Wallace, Sustainability Specialist
• Green Chemistry: The Molecular Science of Sustainability
  John C. Warner, The Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
• Green Chemistry and Entropic Control in Materials and Processes
  John C. Warner, The Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
• Green Separations
  Kim R. Williams, Laboratory for Advance Separations Technologies

Presenter Biographies