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Beyond Benign is a nonprofit focused on creating a workforce and public that is well educated in green chemistry in order to create safer materials for a thriving society. learn more
Green Chemistry Newsletter
If you're a subscriber, notification of our first newsletter arrived in your e-mail-box. Each issue includes interviews, reviews and discussions on a wide range of Green Chemistry topics. Written for a wide audience, our newsletter will is easily accessible and includes items and ideas that can be used in classroom settings, in the home and in the research laboratory. If you would like future notifications of issues, sign up!
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NSTA Workshop Materials
Our NSTA curricula materials for Middle School and High School are being updated and transfered to permanent pages. Please pardon our construction! The updated Middle School curricula will become available at the end of June and the updated High School curricula will be available in July.
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Green Chemistry for Teaching Excellence
June 30 - July 5, Milton, MACambridge College & Beyond Benign are collaborating to provide science educators with a week-long introduction to Green Chemistry. The NITE program gives students the opportunity to earn up to 15 credits in just 4-5 weeks towards a Bachelor's, Master's, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study or Doctorate of Education.
The goal of this course is to introduce Green Chemistry to science educators, giving them the tools needed to teach Green Chemistry concepts to students in a classroom or laboratory setting.
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News & Announcements
@ Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference
June 24-26, Washington D.C.
Rachel Pokrandt will present: "Connecting Industry to K-12 Education through Green Chemistry" and Amy Cannon will present: "Understanding and Implementing the Principles of Green Chemistry in Industry".Abstracts
@ Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
June 29-July 2, Burlington, VT
Warner Receives Leadership Award
May 2008
John C. Warner, President and Chief Technology Officer of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and Director of the Beyond Benign Foundation, was honored on May 4 by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents with their Leadership in Science award for founding the field of “Green Chemistry.” The honor was shared with Green Chemistry co-founder, Paul Anastas.
The Council of Scientific Society Presidents is an organization of presidents, presidents-elect, and recent past presidents of about sixty scientific federations and societies whose combined membership numbers well over 1.4 million scientists and science educators. Council membership spans the top elected officers of the full spectrum of physical, mathematical, and life sciences, and science and mathematics education.
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Vol.1 Issue 1
"Green Chemistry Letters & Reviews has launched! Visit Taylor & Francis' Site to review the inaugural issue's table of contents
The peer-reviewed journal, "Green Chemistry Letters & Reviews," with John Warner as Editor-in-Chief, is accepting submissions!
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