Northeastern University
Signing Date
6/19/2013
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Main Website
Description
Northeastern University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology are adopting green chemistry in their chemistry major and non-major courses, and are looking to bring green chemistry into their unique co-op program for undergraduate students that help prepare students for chemically related careers and advanced studies.
Faculty Size
45
Primary Contact
Dr. Vaso Lykourinou, v.lykourinou@northeastern.edu
Chemistry Degrees Offered
BS, MS, Ph.D.
Implementation of Green Chemistry
General chemistry, Organic chemistry, Analytical chemistry; Toxicology; Research, Outreach
Student Groups
ACS Student Chapter
Goals
- Continue to offer courses focused on green chemistry, sustainability, and toxicology for honors college and further expand it to chemistry/biochemistry majors as part of a toxicology focus degree development.
- Create efforts for lab plastics recycling and review first two year labs in terms of eliminating some more toxic solvents reagents.
- Offer the green the green chemistry course and green chemistry themed undergraduate research projects on the two new Northeastern campuses.
- Always looking for collaborators to share ideas from other colleges!
Resources Used
The Yale, UNIDO, and Beyond Benign Green Chemistry Curriculum was used as a resource to start our honors seminar and the majors dedicated course offering (hoping to develop a toxicology and sustainable chemistry concentration for our majors!).
