 Teachers of chemistry everywhere now have free access to the most current and complete information about how to “do” green chemistry, thanks to the efforts of Julie Haack and other UO green chemists. During last summer’s ACS Joint Green Chemistry Conference in Washington, D.C., Julie Haack, assistant department head of chemistry at UO, unveiled GEMs, a curricular resource for “Greener Education Materials”.
Haack says the database will support education across chemical disciplines and among diverse educational audiences (K–12, colleges and universities). Designed to be interactive, Haack says new submissions will be continually added, and online discussions will contribute to the ongoing development of the project as a living resource.
Initiated by a CAS program grant through the CAS Dean’s fund, the four-year project was subsequently funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education. Its development has involved extensive consultation with teachers in schools as well as at the community college and university level.
http://greenchem.uoregon.edu/gems.html
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