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Pioneering green chemist leads speaker agenda at GreenCentre Canada's Sustainable Chemistry Summit
April 20, 2011
KINGSTON, ON -- A visionary green chemistry researcher and inventor who has fostered the world’s first generation of green chemists will be plenary speaker at GreenCentre Canada’s inaugural Sustainable Chemistry Summit this September.
Dr. Terry (Terrence J.) Collins is renowned worldwide for his discovery of a new class of catalysts to replace chlorine-based oxidants, a major source of environmental pollutants. Concerned about health problems related to pollutants generated by pesticides and pulp and paper processing in his native New Zealand, he set out to find a cleaner alternative. Dr. Collins’s discovery offers a wide range of applications, from pulp and paper production and water purification to the ‘greening’ of household chemicals such as laundry detergent and bleach.
Dr. Collins is also revered as an educational trailblazer, creating the first course on green chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in 1992.
“Dr. Collins is not only a brilliant researcher; he is an unsurpassed role model for our industrial partners and our innovators-in-waiting,” says Dr. Rui Resendes, Executive Director of GreenCentre. “Through his achievements, Dr. Collins has shown us that chemistry research has the power to create a more sustainable world. We are thrilled to have him lead our speaker agenda.”
Terry Collins is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 1987. He is also the Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Green Science.
Born and educated in New Zealand, Dr. Collins completed his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Warren Roper, FRS, in 1978 at Auckland University. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. James P. Collman at Stanford University (1978-80).
Dr. Collins has been widely recognized for his passionate advocacy of chemistry innovation as a force for environmental sustainability. Honours include the EPA’s 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the Heinz Award for the Environment, the Inaugural Kauffman Award of the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Pittsburgh Section Award of the ACS, and Japan’s Society of Pure and Applied Coordination Chemistry Award. He is an honorary professor and a Distinguished Alumnus awardee of Auckland University and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
The Sustainable Chemistry summit takes place Sept. 16-18 at the Four Points Sheraton in Kingston, ON.
About the Sustainable Chemistry Summit:
The Sustainable Chemistry Summit: From Lab to Market offers a rare, firsthand look at green chemistry’s innovators and their work in university research labs and in industry. Aimed at industry, researchers and commercialization professionals, the three-day gathering will highlight new directions in green chemistry research and product development. The event also includes a half-day, pre-conference session, Green Chemistry 101, led by Dr. Philip Jessop, GreenCentre Technical Director and Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry at Queen’s University.
www.greencentrecanada.com/summit/index.html
About GreenCentre Canada:
GreenCentre Canada is a national Centre of Excellence for commercializing early-stage green chemistry discoveries generated by academic researchers and industry. Funded by the province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, and industry sponsors, GreenCentre Canada is dedicated to developing environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional chemical and manufacturing products and practices. It is governed and operated with the assistance of industry sponsors from across the chemical value chain. Founded in 2009, GreenCentre is located at Innovation Park at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
http://www.greencentrecanada.com/
Contact:
Mary Anne Beaudette
Director, Communications
GreenCentre Canada
P: 613. 533. 6000 xt 78238
E: Maryanne.beaudette@greencentrecanada.com
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