A big part of implementing green chemistry in industry is the task of identifying and selecting product or process chemistries that are safer, less resource-intensive, and also functionally better than those we currently use. That involves complex judgments and comparisons with many dimensions. Figuring out how to make multifaceted comparisons to support scientifically informed judgments is the domain of alternatives assessment (AA). Anyone involved in green chemistry should be familiar with this idea.
Month: March 2016
Meet the SAGE Trainees!*Updated*
The SAGE IGERT Fellowship at BCGC supports UC Berkeley graduate students conducting research related to green chemistry and green energy. The fellowship began in 2013 and now, two years later, there are nineteen trainees and alum doing amazing green work on campus.
We went out to speak to them about their research…and a few other fun things. We asked all the trainees to describe their work in the simplest terms possible: using only the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English language (thanks to the Up-goer text editor). We also asked the students for a recommendation–a bright new green idea in the world that they’re excited about–and got some great responses. So click through the gallery and get to know the BCGC SAGE IGERT trainees!
David Garfield, 2016 Cohort, Chemistry
Peter Waller, 2016 Cohort, Chemistry
Kathy Tran, 2016 Cohort, Environmental Health Sciences
Zachary Gima, 2016 Cohort, Mechanical Engineering
Matt Smith, 2016 Cohort, Chemistry
Julia Varshavsky, 2015 Cohort, Environmental Health Sciences
Diane Gonzales, 2014 Cohort, Environmental Health Science
Jeremy Faludi, 2015 Cohort, Mechanical Engineering
Cecilia Han Springer, 2015 Cohort, Energy and Resources Group
Trevor Lohrey, 2015 Cohort, College of Chemistry
Jessica Ziegler, 2014 Cohort, Chemistry Department
Leah Rubin Shen, 2013 Cohort, College of Chemistry
Marianna Brown-Augustine, 2015 Cohort, Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology
Ben Greenfield, 2013 Cohort, School of Public Health
Chris Hill, 2013 Cohort, College of Chemistry
Jennifer Lawrence, 2014 Cohort, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Akos Kokai, 2015 Cohort, Environmental Science and Policy Management
Shuk Han Chan, 2014 Cohort, Mechanical Engineering
Julia Chaves, 2014 Cohort, Biochemistry and Plant and Microbiology Department
David Faulkner, 2013 Cohort, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Beverly Shen, 2016 Cohort, Environmental Health Sciences
Tala Daya, 2015 Cohort, Mechanical Engineering
Drew Hill, 2015 Cohort, Environmental Health Sciences
Noah Kittner, 2014 Cohort, Energy and Resources Group
