Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 16, 2008|Volume 36, Number 29|Four-Week Issue


BULLETIN HOME

VISITING ON CAMPUS

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

IN THE NEWS

BULLETIN BOARD

CLASSIFIED ADS


SEARCH ARCHIVES

DEADLINES

DOWNLOAD FORMS

BULLETIN STAFF


PUBLIC AFFAIRS HOME

NEWS RELEASES

E-MAIL US


YALE HOME PAGE


Paul Anastas honored as the
founder of ‘green chemistry’

Yale researcher Paul T. Anastas was honored by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents with its Leadership in Science award for founding the field of “green chemistry.”

Known as “the father of green chemistry” (he coined the term in 1991), Anastas has worked to develop the field over the past 17 years. He joined the Yale faculty in 2007, where he serves as director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, which advances research on, education about and use of sustainable technologies.

The Council of Scientific Society Presidents is an organization of presidents, presidents-elect and recent past presidents of about 60 scientific federations and societies. The combined membership numbers well over 1.4 million scientists and science educators in 150 disciplines. Each year the council confers its Citation for Leadership and Achievement to individuals in honor of their special achievements in support of scientific research.

Martin Apple, president of the council, says Anastas was honored “for his strategic and bold vision and pioneering initiatives that created the global green chemistry enterprise, for his breakthrough research that created economic incentives to reduce industrial waste, for leading the U.S.A. to sponsor the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge, and N.S.F. to create the technology for a sustainable environment program, for founding the Green Chemistry Institute, for preventing millions of kilograms of hazardous chemicals from entering the environment, [and] for his 12 principles redirecting progress on chemical frontiers to address key 21st century challenges.”

Anastas focuses his research on the design of safer chemicals, bio-based polymers and new methodologies of chemical synthesis that are more efficient and less hazardous to the environment. He has published nine books and numerous papers on the interaction of science, technology and sustainability.

Before coming to Yale, Anastas was the director of the Green Chemistry Institute, headquartered at the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C., where he established 24 green chemistry chapters in countries around the world, including China, Ethiopia, India, Japan and South Africa. In a prior position with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he spent five years as the principal supporter within the administration for ­governmental programs related to the environment.

Anastas holds joint appointments at Yale in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Environmental Engineering.

Among his numerous awards are the John Jeyes Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the H. John Heinz III Award for the Environment and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Joseph Seifter Award, their highest scientific recognition.

Previous recipients of the award include Nobel laureates F. Sherwood Rowland and Dudley Hirschbach, President of the National Academy of Sciences Bruce Alberts and former Dean of Yale Engineering D. Alan Bromley.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Added sun does not lower breast cancer risk, warn experts

Yale affiliates are honored with election to prestigious societies

Strobel’s students rediscover sense of scientific ‘wonder’ . .

Yale to celebrate 307th graduation

Summertime at Yale

Scientist Joan Steitz wins nation’s largest prize in medicine

University names 18 future leaders as 2008 World Fellows

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Architecture students helping to design Mideast Peace Park

China’s President Hu Jintao meets with participants in . . .

In Yale-led study, astronomers discover nine young galaxies . . .

Research on male mating behavior suggests brains may be unisex . . .

Paul Anastas honored as the founder of ‘green chemistry’

Town-gown partners honored with Elm-Ivy Awards

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS

Exhibits explore artist’s Liverpool years, British watercolors

Two student-curated shows focus on the medium of photography

Library creates digital archive of ‘oldest college daily’

Two seniors will study at the University of Cambridge as Gates Scholars

Campus leaders discuss strategies for increasing staff diversity

Former Bucknell chaplain is named new pastor of University Church

Professor Miroslav Volf will co-teach class with . . . Tony Blair

Council of Masters honors 10 juniors for their scholarship . . .

Conference focuses on ‘Women and Men in the Globalizing University’

The future of ‘Computers, Freedom and Privacy’ to be addressed . . .

Karyn Frick honored for contributions to women’s health

Campus Notes


Bulletin Home|Visiting on Campus|Calendar of Events|In the News

Bulletin Board|Classified Ads|Search Archives|Deadlines

Bulletin Staff|Public Affairs|News Releases| E-Mail Us|Yale Home