Media Coverage

• An expanded interview on the relative merits of gas vs. renewable energy. (Gas Rush Stories Extra: Renewable Energy Experts, December 2012)
• International Collaboration of Green Scientists, Including Carnegie Mellon's Terry Collins, Proposes Safety Testing System for Development of New Chemicals (Press Release, December 7, 2012) See also: The Amazing TiPED Team
• Terry Collins answers questions on the gas rush with other sustainability experts. (part of the Gas Rush Stories video series, December 2012)
• Yes: Food labels would let consumers make informed choices (Environmental Health News, November 2012)
• "Toward a Sustainable 21st Century: Pesticides Conference" Pete Myers gives keynote on how green chemistry might avoid the hazards of endocrine disruptors.
• The CO₂ Fence. Graduate student Longzhu Shen created the CO₂ fence installation at CMU's ArtPark Lab. It uses environmentally-friendly lighting to illustrate the rise and fall of carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere over the past 800,000 years. (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, Spring 2012)
  See also: What's CO₂ Got To Do With It?, Mellon College of Science press release, April 30, 2012
• Rapid, Biomimetic Degradation in Water of the Persistent Drug Sertraline by TAML Catalysts and Hydrogen Peroxide, (Environ. Sci. Technol., Article ASAP, Publication Date (Web): August 9, 2011)
• Terry Collins interviewed on Healthy Friday [.mp3] (Healthy Friday on WXXI, Rochester, NY, November 19, 2010)
• Terry Collins Named a Recipient of a 2010 Heinz Award
  • CMU professor honored for work purifying water (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 21, 2010)
  • Pittsburgh's Terry Collins wins $100,000 Heinz Award for groundbreaking green research (Pop City Media, September 22, 2010)
• Ph.D. Candidate Chad Ellis Receives Camegie Mellon's Graduate Student Service Award (press release, April 2, 2010)
• The Green Chemist: profile of Professor Terry Collins in Carnegie Mellon Today (Carnegie Mellon Today, April 2009, Vol. 6 No. 2)
• VeruTEK Technologies Announces Cooperative Agreement with Carnegie Mellon University Technology Start-Up, Green Ox Catalysts [.pdf] (VeruTEK Technologies, Inc. press release, April 17, 2009)
• There’s Something in the Water...and It Shouldn't Be There (EcoHearth, March 24, 2009)
• How to Go Green: Terry Collins Offers Expert Advice (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, January 2009)
• Enviro health scientists, chemists join forces to promote safe chemicals (Environmental Health News, November 2008)
• Catalyst for change: Green chemistry careers (From New Scientist Print Edition, October 17, 2008)
• Something in the water (Chemistry World, September 2008 Vol 5, No 9)
• Green chemistry: Real world solutions for real environmental problems (Environmental Health News. Opinion, 14 September 2008)
• The journey to safe chemicals: Congress must do more to protect the public from toxic products (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 20, 2008)
• Green Catalysts Provide Promise For Cleaning Toxins and Pollutants (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 18, 2008)
• Alumna Melanie Vrabel co-recipient of the EPA’s James W. Craig Pollution Prevention Leadership Award (Department of Chemistry story, June 2008)
  
  EPA honors Chemistry Alumna (MCS story, July 2008)
  
  Green is the New Clean (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, August 2008)
• Prof. Terry Collins is first recipient of $50,000 Charles E. Kaufman Award (Pittsburgh Foundation press release, May 2008)
• Chemists Clean Up the Water (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, April 2008)
• Tech Nation: Endocrine Disruptors, IT Conversations, March 12, 2008
  Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Terry Collins about endocrine disruptors, and a new technique used to take minute traces of these materials out of our drinking water.
• The Heinz Endowments: $45 Million Goes to Nonprofits in Region, Heinz Endowments press release, October 25, 2007
  In the green chemistry field, new funding and previously approved grants will allow $8.5 million to go to an endowment increase and program expansion
• Green Chemistry Attracts Fans on Campus, Associated Press, October 9, 2007
• Green Chemistry Bill Soars through House Committee, Integrity in Science Watch, July 16, 2007
• Hancock Award goes to Arani Chanda, C&E News, July 9, 2007
• Keeping it green, Chemistry World, May 25, 2007
• Creating a New Chemistry, The Allegheny Front, April 18, 2007
  (read transcript or listen to interview)
• Terry Collins interviewed by Radio New Zealand’s Kim Hill, February 2007
• Iron Complexes Take On Problematic Pesticides: Versatile catalysts aid degradation of hormone-disrupting chemicals, Chemical and Engineering News, September 7, 2006
• Prof. Collins and other scholars speak to the CHE community about the importance of green chemistry to sustainability Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) Partnership Calls, June 19, 2006
• Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) Interview with Terry Collins, CHE Partner Interviews, 2006
• Fe-TAML® Catalysts Degrade Estrogenic Compounds, Carnegie Mellon Press Release, June 27, 2006
• Green Chemistry Event a Great Success at Pittsburgh’s First Night Celebration, The Tartan, January 23, 2006
• Green Chemistry a Hit at Pittsburgh’s First Night Celebration, Carnegie Mellon Press Release, January 9, 2006
• A New Weapon for Cleaning Wastewater Science Magazine, August 29, 2005
  (Subscription may be required)
• CMU researchers detoxify toxins, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 30, 2005
• Arani Chanda mentioned in Science Briefs, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 29, 2005
• A New Chemistry of Oxygen with Iron, MCS website story, March 7, 2005
• Terry Collins Receives Award from American Chemical Society, Carnegie Mellon Press Release, September 29, 2004
• Chemists will use a CMU forum to learn about going green, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, (July 30, 2004)
• Carnegie Mellon University Hosts ACS-PRF Summer School on Green Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon press release, July 27, 2004
• Cleaner Catalysts Kill Bacteria, Chemistry in Britain, (November 2003) p13
• Cleaner Living, Charles Choi, Scientific American (November 2003)
• Catalyseurs à tout faire, La Recherche: L'Actualité Des Sciences, Véronique Parasote, No.369 November, 2003, 26-27
• NPR interview with Terry Collins on "Talk of the Nation— Science Friday" is available online. (September 26, 2003)
• An Iron Grip, Philip D. Szuromi, Science, 2003, 302, 359-361
  (subscription to Science may be required to view article)
• 'Green' Catalyst Could Clean Up the World
  USA Today (September 15, 2003)
• CMU scientist finds benign ways to clean streams, kill germs and more
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (September 11, 2003)
• Powerful New Catalysts attack wide range of pollutants
  Scientific American (September 11, 2003)
• CMU researchers create anthrax-killing molecule
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (September 11, 2003)
• A Flexible Catalyst With a Heart of Iron
  The Alchemist— ChemWeb.com (free registration required) (September 11, 2003)
• Terry Collins Develops "Green" Catalysts for Potential Use in Industry and Biological Warfare
  Carnegie Mellon News (September 11, 2003)
• Collins Laboratory Announces Potential Applications of Environmentally Friendly Catalysts at National ACS Meeting
  Mellon College of Science press releases
• "Green" Chemist Terry Collins Receives Thomas Lord Professorship (Carnegie Mellon News, March 8, 2002)