The Institute for Green Science, led by Terry Collins, Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry, has been established as a research, education and development center in which a holistic approach to green or sustainable chemistry is being developed, focused on pollution reduction. Research programs are evolving around the scientific and technological development of TAML® hydrogen peroxide activators, extensively patented and trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University.
A Very Early Definition of Green Chemistry (pdf)
Collins, T.J., Green Chemistry, in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Volume 2, Simon and Schuster Macmillan, New York, 1997, pp. 691–697
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Features
- 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)
- Persuasive Communication about Matters of Great Urgency: Endocrine Disruption (Environmental Science & Technology, October 13, 2008)
- Green chemistry: Real world solutions for real environmental problems (Environmental Health News. Opinion, 14 September 2008)
- Green is the New Clean (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, August 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)
- 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)
- IT Conversations: Endocrine Disruptors
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 Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.