Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Department of Chemistry will host Dr. Terrence Collins for the second annual Ken and Nancy Long Chemistry Lecture Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Collins, the Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, will present examples of green chemistry developments in "Green Chemistry: Sustaining a High Technology Civilization."
Collins is considered one of the founders of the field of green chemistry and is the director of the Institute for Green Science at Carnegie Mellon. He developed the first university course in green chemistry in 1992 and received the 1998 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.
The lecture series is funded by Dr. Ken Long, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of chemistry emeritus, and his wife, Nancy, to invite outstanding chemists to speak to ¾¨Ó㴫ý students. Co-sponsors of this year's lecture are ¾¨Ó㴫ý's Department of Chemistry and its Perspectives on the Environment speaker series.
Contact Mary Pitman, chemistry department secretary, at (724) 946-7294 or e-mail pitmanmp@westminster.edu for more information.
