Monday, April 12, 2004 Discovery World R&D Cafe - 3rd floor 815 N. James Lovell Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin

DIRECTIONS

Green chemistry in the US can trace its major roots back to the early 1990s with the passage of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 and the subsequent formal focus on green chemistry by the EPA in 1991. Since this time research and development in green chemistry/technology has gained considerable momentum. Many companies and academic research faculty now recognize the environmental and economic benefits that environmentally benign chemistry has to offer. If we are to broaden the base of those that view chemistry with a "green tint," then green chemistry must be infused into conventional chemistry courses that are offered in the traditional college chemistry curriculum. It should be "second nature" for our students of today and the chemists of tomorrow, to view all chemistry with pollution prevention in mind. Ways in which we have infused green chemistry into the curriculum will be addressed. This discussion will include the green chemistry web based modules that have been developed with the aid of a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation grant, and the book "Real-World Cases in Green Chemistry" funded by the ACS/EPA (Please see http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/CANNM1/greenchemistry.html). In addition we will focus on the ACS/EPA Green Chemistry Educational Materials Development Project (please see http://www.acs.org/education/greenchem/).

Michael Cann was born and raised in the Saratoga region of upstate NY and attended Marist College where he earned his BA in chemistry in 1969. Mike received his MA and PhD in organic chemistry from SUNY Stony Brook in 1972 and 1973, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah (1973-74), and a lecturer at the University of Colorado-Denver (1974-75). Since 1975 he has been a faculty member at the University of Scranton. He is also the co-director of the environmental science program and the director of medical technology. His areas of interest encompass nitrenium ions, nitrogen heterocycles and green chemistry. His interests in green chemistry consist of microwave assisted organic reactions, room temperature ionic liquids, and green chemistry education. He has taught a number of courses including general chemistry, organic chemistry, environmental chemistry, chemical literature and writing, chemistry seminar, topics in environmental science, internship in environmental science and graduate courses in mechanistic and structural organic chemistry. (web page: http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/CANNM1/)