Beyond Benign

“Changing the Course of Chemistry: Adopting the Green Chemistry Commitment” at ACS NOLA 2018
2018-03-18 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | New Orleans Downtown Marriott at the Convention Center, 859 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
Join Beyond Benign at the poster session held by the Division of Chemical Education (CHED) at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Stop by and learn about the Green Chemistry Commitment!
The GCC is helping to transform chemistry education in college and university chemistry departments who strive to:

prepare world class chemists whose skills are well aligned with the needs of the planet and its inhabitants in the 21st century, and
design and develop innovative, e cient, and environmentally sound solutions to the safety and e ectiveness of chemical products and processes.

With the GCC, colleges and universities can band together to share resources and experiences to shift how and what the next generation of chemists learn. Students will enter the workforce armed with the neces- sary skills and knowledge to be leaders in making the principles of green chemistry standard practice in all branches of the chemical sciences.

GSEM STEM Conference & Expo 2018
2018-03-18 09:00 - 17:00 | Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center, 1657 Worcester Rd., Framingham, MA, 01701, United States

Green Chemistry Student Chapters: Stories of Success at ACS NOLA 2018
2018-03-18 08:00 - 2018-03-19 17:00 | New Orleans Downtown Marriott at the Convention Center, 859 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
Join Beyond Benign and the ACS Green Chemistry Institute to celebrate model green chemistry student chapters at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
The Green Chemistry Award has quickly become one of the most sought after accolades for student chapters. To be eligible for green chemistry status, chapters must engage in at least three green chemistry activities per year, ranging from community outreach activities to hosting invited speakers. This symposium will provide a platform for student chapters who have been awarded green chemistry status to share their unique strategies and stories. Through peer to peer student conversations, more student chapters may be inspired and empowered to achieve green chemistry status.

High School Day at Spring ACS National Meeting
2018-03-18 | New Orleans Downtown Marriott at the Convention Center, 859 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
Join Beyond Benign Lead Teacher Lurea Doody during the High School Day at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA for a hands-on workshop featuring blackberry dye-sensitized solar cells!

Boston STEM Fair
2018-03-17 12:00 - 16:00 | Embassy Suites by Hilton Boston Waltham, 550 Winter St., Waltham, MA, 02451, United States
You’re invited to bring your families and explore STEM through hands-on activities for all ages at the 2018 Boston STEM Fair. While you’re there, be sure to visit with our outreach fellows to learn about the exciting opportunities in green chemistry!

Meet Me in the Middle Day at NSTA Atlanta
2018-03-16 | Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young Int'l Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA, 30313, United States
Visit with Beyond Benign Lead Teacher Jonathan Baek to learn about free NGSS aligned middle school engineering curriculum at the annual Meet Me in the Middle event during the NSTA National Meeting in Atlanta, GA!

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 2018 National Conference
2018-03-15 - 2018-03-17 | Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young Int'l Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA, 30313, United States
Visit Beyond Benign staff and Lead Teachers at the NSTA National Conference exhibit hall! We’ll be located at booth 845 and ready to share free resources and answer any questions you have about green chemistry for any level of education!

Family STEM Night at George Keverian School
2018-03-14 17:00 - 19:00 | George Keverian School, 20 Nichols St., Everett, MA, 02149, United States
Families from Everett, MA are invited to George Keverian School’s Family STEM Night event for a night of hands-on activities showcasing exciting careers in the STEM fields. While you’re there, make sure to visit our outreach fellows to learn about green chemistry!

Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Conference
2018-03-13 09:00 - 12:00 | Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem, MA, 01970, United States

Full STEAM Ahead
2018-03-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Lincoln Elementary School, 161 Mystic Valley Pkwy, Winchester, MA, 01890, United States
Families from Winchester, MA are invited to Lincoln Elementary School’s Full STEAM Ahead event for a night of hands-on activities showcasing exciting careers in the STEAM fields. While you’re there, make sure to visit our outreach fellows to learn about green chemistry!

High School Marine Science Symposium
2018-03-08 08:00 - 13:00 | Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States

A Guide to Green Chemistry Experiments for Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Labs
2018-03-06 14:00 - 15:00
Green Chemistry has been widely adopted as a means for reducing hazards and waste in chemistry labs, while maintaining the necessary rigor for teaching fundamental reactions and techniques. In a collaborative partnership between Beyond Benign, My Green Lab, and MilliporeSigma, a new resource guide has been developed for undergraduate organic chemistry teaching labs. This guide provides educators with a set of safer, greener alternative organic chemistry experiments to demonstrate key chemical transformations to undergraduate chemistry students, and indicates quantifiable benefits when greener alternative experiments are implemented, including waste reduction, hazard reduction, and cost savings. Join us on March 6 to learn more about using this new, FREE, customizable guide to educate the next generation of scientists to carry out experiments with sustainability in mind.

Citywide Boston Science and Engineering Fair Activity Expo
2018-03-03 13:30 - 14:30 | Cabot Center, 400 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Join Beyond Benign in supporting hundreds of Boston high school students as they showcase their projects! While you’re there, visit with Beyond Benign outreach fellows for hands-on activities showcasing green chemistry innovations!

Michigan Science Teachers Association (MSTA) Annual Conference
2018-03-02 - 2018-03-03 | Radisson Hotel & Lansing Center, 111 N Grand Ave, Lansing, MI, 48933, United States
Join Beyond Benign Lead Teachers for a hands-on workshop showcasing labs and lessons that highlight green chemistry innovations for both the middle and high school level!

EPA Safer Choice
2018-02-13 14:00 - 15:00
Join Beyond Benign and the EPA Safer Choice Program for this exciting webinar! This webinar features two professional chemists who will discuss their work with partner companies in EPA’s Safer Choice program to identify safer ingredients for retail and industrial products. Learn how the Safer Choice team works closely with manufacturers and their suppliers to identify chemical ingredients that meet the Safer Choice Standard. Dr. Bridget Williams and Randy Yakal will discuss how products are evaluated, reviewed, and approved as Safer Choice certified. Register to learn why Safer Choice-certified products are safer for people and the planet.
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MIT Science on Saturday
2018-02-03 10:00 - 12:00 | MIT Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
Join Beyond Benign outreach fellows at the hands-on portion of this free event to explore Materials with Magical Properties at MIT!

Tools for Integrating Green Chemistry into the Classroom: ChemEdX Virtual Conference
2018-01-29 - 2018-02-14
Beyond Benign is proud to partner with the Journal of Chemical Educationand ChemEd X to host this virtual conference. By participating in Tools for Integrating Green Chemistry in Your Classroom, you will engage with each other alongside experts in the field of green chemistry education through critiquing and discussing labs and lessons for teaching chemistry through the lens of sustainable innovations. By investigating novel technologies, exploring green chemistry alternatives to traditional experiments, and evaluating a fresh perspective on chemical modeling, you will gain a deeper understanding of green chemistry principles and practices to integrate into your classrooms.

Designing & Engineering Show
2018-01-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Bagnall Elementary School, 253 School St, Groveland, MA, 01834, United States
Beyond Benign outreach fellows will be hosting a workshop on ocean plastics and new ways of thinking about the problem of plastics!

Toxicological Tools for Greener Product Design
2017-12-05 14:00 - 15:00
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This webinar will feature two professional toxicologists who will share their experience working across the disciplines of chemistry and toxicology through predictive and computational toxicology tools. With the goal of enabling scientists to design products with reduced hazards, Dr. Spencer and Dr. Rowlands will provide modern-day examples of tools that bridge this divide.
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The Crossroads of Chemistry and Toxicology: Advancing Greener, Safer Ingredients & Products
by Dr. Pamela Spencer, ANGUS Chemical
Abstract: Today, more than ever, chemicals and products deemed to have undesirable human health or environmental effects are being targeted for replacement with “greener” alternatives. New greener candidates must be technologically feasible, deliver the same or better value in cost and performance while providing an improved profile for health and environmental safety. For scientists developing new products, this means early detection of toxicological effects can be the difference in launching a more sustainable product or one targeted itself for future deselection. Given the significant time, resources and money required to develop a new product, early identification of nonviable candidates can conserve finite business resources. ANGUS has developed and implemented a process to improve the screening of new chemical candidates or formulations using new “21st century” safety assessment tools. This presentation will highlight how toxicological assessments are integrated into the product development process and the critical role collaboration between chemists and toxicologists play in the introduction of new, more sustainable alternatives.

Developing Greener Chemicals through Big Data and Machine Learning Computational Toxicology
by Dr. Craig Rowlands, Underwriters Laboratory
Abstract: The development and preparation of new materials and chemicals must determine their safety to human health and the environmental throughout their lifecycles. Conventional approaches to such safety assessments can be costly, sacrifice a large number of animals for testing and are time intensive delaying introduction of new products into the market. Such considerations have underscored the need to develop new approaches to safety assessments by toxicologists and chemists working together at the earliest stages of new product development. These partnerships have resulted in innovative predictive safety strategies and approaches using in vitro and computational toxicology – or cheminformatic –tools. In collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University, UL has developed a new machine learning (ML) cheminformatics software tool to predict chemical hazards. This ML tool called REACHAcross takes advantage of the increasing availability of big data in toxicology using a chemical similarity approach to predict highly accurate chemical hazards. The results of the assessments can be used to design or select lower hazard chemicals for new chemicals or new formulations, respectively. REACHAcross predictions have additional uses including chemical regulatory registrations and hazard communications. REACHAcross is a versatile software application that can assist green chemistry practitioners in the development of lower hazed chemicals and producing the data needed for commercialization of new products.

Pennsylvania Science Teachers Association (PSTA) Annual Conference 2017
2017-11-30 - 2017-12-02 | Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA, 16803, United States
Join Beyond Benign Lead Teacher Lurea Doody for a hands-on workshop featuring innovative green chemistry labs!

Connecticut Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Annual Conference
2017-11-18 | Hamden Middle School, 2623 Dixwell Ave, Hamden, CT, 06518, United States
Join Beyond Benign Lead Teacher for a hands-on workshop featuring green chemistry replacement labs for traditional laboratory experiments!

MnSTA Conference on Science Education
2017-11-10 - 2017-11-11 | Rivers Edge Convention Center, 10 4th Ave, St. Cloud, MN, 56301, United States
Join Minnesota Beyond Benign Lead Teachers for a hands-on workshop featuring exciting green chemistry resources for the classroom!

Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching (CAST) 2017
2017-11-09 - 2017-11-11 | George R. Brown Convention Center, 2001 Avenida Ave, Houston, TX, 77010, United States
Join Beyond Benign for a 3 hr short course as we explore safer alternatives to traditional chemistry labs and use innovation as a lens for teaching core science concepts. Additionally, Beyond Benign will run a hands-on workshop with Flinn Scientific to showcase green chemistry kits for AP and general chemistry.

Science Teachers Association of Ontario (STAO) Annual Conference
2017-11-09 - 2017-11-11
Join Beyond Benign Lead Teacher Richard Cooper for a hands-on workshop showcasing labs and lessons that highlight green chemistry innovations!

Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) Conference
2017-11-06 09:30 - 2017-11-08 10:30 | Riverside Convention Center, 123 East Main St, Rochester, NY, 14604, United States
Explore green chemistry replacements for traditional labs and hear from Beyond Benign Lead Teachers based in New York during this hands-on workshop.

NEACT Western Regional Meeting
2017-11-04 09:00 - 12:00 | Woodstock Academy, 57 Academy Rd, Woodstock, CT, 06281, United States
Beyond Benign Lead Teachers Raks Derival and Annette Sebuyira will be leading a workshop for the members of western region of New England Association of Chemistry Teachers featuring green chemistry labs and lessons.

Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers (MAST) Annual Conference
2017-11-02 - 2017-11-03 | Boxborough Regency, 242 Adams Pl, Boxborough, MA, 01719, United States
Explore all that Beyond Benign has to offer for the K-12 classroom and chat with our Lead Teachers at this year’s expo!

Advancing Safer Chemistry: The Role of Government Policy by Dr. Joel Tickner, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2017-11-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Green Chemistry Education Webinar Series
Government policies play an important role in driving green chemistry innovation and adoption. Policies that range from research and development, education, tax and investment incentives to purchasing preferences and chemicals assessment and management regulations at the state, federal, and international levels can all impact demand for and supply of green chemistry alternatives as well as chemical choices. It is important that material designers, chemists, and business managers within firms understand the role of policy in accelerating green chemistry. This webinar will provide an overview of the range of policies that can affect chemical design and product development and adoption.
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New Jersey Science Convention 2017
2017-10-24 - 2017-10-25 | Princeton Marriott Forrestal, 100 College Rd E, Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Join Beyond Benign for a hands-on workshop highlighting real-world innovations that use green chemistry to solve environmental challenges.

National Chemistry Week
2017-10-22 - 2017-10-28
Chemistry Rocks! is the theme for the 2017 National Chemistry Week. We will be participating in events in the greater Boston area. Details coming soon!
