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05 May: EAB Posters & Presentation are Now Online
Click here to view the posters & presentations from our annual fall EAB meeting (password protected).

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04 May: Prof. Darlene Taylor wins interdisciplinary award

Prof. Darlene Taylor, who has participated in CERSP for eight years and still leads our RICHES program, has won an award from Duke University on Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH). The BIRCWH is a K-12 Institutional Training Grant that provides faculty at Duke or NCCU a minimum of two years of salary and research development support to pursue research careers related to women's health. The program builds upon existing interdisciplinary faculty relationships to foster productive and innovative collaborations and is creating new research partnerships. For details click here.

Congratulations Darlene!

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03 May: Duke/NCCU BIRCWH Program

The Duke University School of Medicine and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) are recipients of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) grant.

The BIRCWH is a K12 Institutional Training Grant that provides faculty at Duke or NCCU a minimum of two years of salary and research development support to pursue research careers related to women's health. The program builds upon existing interdisciplinary faculty relationships to foster productive and innovative collaborations and is creating new research partnerships.

The Duke/NCCU BIRCWH is co-directed by Ann Brown, MD and Evan Myers, MD, and is administered within Dr. Brown’s Office of the Associate Dean for Women in Medicine and Science. An Advisory Board of Duke and NCCU faculty guides the BIRCWH program and BIRCWH mentors advise individual scholars.

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02 May: Prof. George Roberts Named Co-Director of CERSP
Effective January 1, 2008 Prof. Ruben Carbonell became Director of BTEC (Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center). Ruben decided to accept this position because of his long-time, close alignment with bioseparations and bioprocessing research and the growing importance of this area strategically at NC State and to the economy of North Carolina.

Because of the time commitment of this new Directorship, Ruben has stepped down as Co-Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes. Effective in January, Prof. George Roberts unofficially replaced Ruben as Co-Director, and this announcement makes that move official.

Ruben will remain active as a PI in CERSP and in helping secure the legacy of the Center. We are sorry to lose Ruben as Co-Director and wish him well in his new position. Many of our STC PIs will continue to work closely with him in his new position. His leadership helped CERSP come into being and contributed significantly to the success of the Center.

We welcome George into his new position as Co-Director and look forward to his increasing role as we work to secure a strong legacy for the Center. George has been a member of the CERSP management team since its early planning stages, most recently serving as Leader of the Macromolecular Synthesis and Engineering Domain. He has also been a member of the Technical Coordinating Committee and a crucial behind-the-scenes force within the STC for eight years.

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01 May: Koros Wins KAUST Award

Professor William J. Koros of Georgia Tech, who heads our Separations Domain, has won one of 12 KAUST awards made to leading researchers worldwide. Prof. Koros and his team will receive $10 million for research over a five year period and will help the Saudi university establish a separations laboratory in the Kingdom. For details click here. This is one of three major awards landed recently by Georgia Tech teams lead by Prof. Koros, totaling $26 million. Others include a $12 million joint project with Chevron on separations related to biofuels and a $4 million joint project with ExxonMobil related to CO2 sequestration. Congratulations, Bill!

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29 April: Gray Receives Prestigious Award
Professor Denis Gray has been named Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professorship Award for 2007 at NC State University. This award recognizes outstanding graduate level teaching at North Carolina State University. Recognition is given at commencement, the Honors Baccalaureate and Celebration of Academic Excellence, and the Celebration of Teaching and Learning. Prof. Gray is only the fourth social scientist in 30 years to receive this recognition. Belated congratulations, Denis!

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23 April: Wei You Receives DuPont Award

One of our new CERSP faculty, Professor Wei You, has been selected as a DuPont Young Investigator. He is supported by the STC in the area of photovoltaics. Congratulations, Prof. You!

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14 April: "Nanoparticle Fabrication: Proteins in Print" Article in Nature Nanotechnology

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23 March: Opening at GSK

13 March: The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is pleased to be sponsoring the following events:
All events are open to the public

2nd International Symposium on Green Processing in the Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemical Industries
May 29-30, 2008 at Yale University in New Haven, CT USA
http://www.guidinggreen.com/Pharm_FineChem.html
Abstracts for student posters are now being accepted. Registration is now open!

12th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference
June 24-26, 2008 at Capital Hilton in Washington, DC USA
www.gcande.org
Registration is now open!
(The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable meeting is scheduled for June 23 at the same location. The Roundtable meeting is open to current and prospective members only. Send ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable inquiries to gcipr@acs.org.)

Gordon Research Conference on Green Chemistry
August 3-8, 2008 at Bates College in Lewiston, ME, USA
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=green
Online application is now open!

2008 AIChE Topical Conference on Green Engineering and Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Industry
November 16-21 at the Philadelphia Marriott and Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA, USA
Call for Abstracts is now open. http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2008/cfp.cgi. Go to the bottom of the list of Groups to Topical 5 (T5), Green Engineering and Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Industry and follow the instructions in submitting to the session of interest.
(The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable meeting will be co-located with this conference. The Roundtable meeting is open to current and prospective members only. Send ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable inquiries to gcipr@acs.org.)

More information on the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable
The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is a partnership between the ACS Green Chemistry Institute and member pharmaceutical companies dedicated to the integration of green chemistry and green engineering in the global pharmaceutical industry. Members currently include AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer Inc, Schering Plough Corporation, and Wyeth. The Roundtable will be strongest when all global pharmaceutical research, development, and manufacturing companies are members. Send membership inquiries to gcipr@acs.org or call (202) 872-6102. Website: www.acs.org/gcipharmaroundtable

ACS Green Chemistry Institute
American Chemical Society
1155 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 872-6102

07 February: PROFESSOR WILLIAM J. KOROS WINS ALAN S. MICHAELS AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN MEMBRANE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Professor William J. Koros, the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Membranes, in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has won the 2008 Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology. The Michaels Award, sponsored by the North American Membrane Society (NAMS), recognizes outstanding innovations and exceptional lifetime contributions to membrane science and technology. The award is given once every three years with an honorarium of $10,000 and is named after Dr. Alan Michaels, whose contributions were instrumental in making membrane processes a broadly applicable and practical technology platform. In receiving this award, Professor Koros was recognized for his seminal research in polymer materials for advanced, membrane-based separations. Professor Koros’s contributions over more than 30 years have had a profound and lasting impact on both fundamental and applied concepts related to polymer membrane-based gas separation for energy-efficient air separation, hydrogen purification, and natural gas separation. Professor Koros helped develop the fundamental theoretical framework forming the basis of the modern understanding of small molecule transport in polymers. He made highly regarded fundamental contributions to materials science design concepts that are widely used in industry today for making gas separation membranes. His intellectual leadership extends beyond polymer membranes to include pioneering studies of hybrid organic/inorganic materials, so-called mixed matrix membranes, for gas separations applications. Professor Koros was also recognized for his outstanding contributions to education; he has mentored more than 100 PhD, MS and Post Doctoral students, many of whom have made important contributions to the field of membrane science and technology. Additionally, he has provided exemplary service to the profession by serving as secretary of the NAMS Board of Directors for more than 15 years and by serving 17 years as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Membrane Science, overseeing a period of explosive growth in the number of submissions and the quality of this journal, which is the leading scientific publication in the membrane science field.

06 February: The 12^th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the premier event of the year for chemists and engineers interested in green and sustainable innovation! The 12^th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference will feature presentations across the range of topics in the field, with session tracks including: