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Our lab receives regular press coverage
for breaking research. This is an incomplete list of
coverage we've received in the media:
- New
Voices in Chemistry: James E. Hutchison,
"Nanoscience Turns Green"
- Chemical & Engineering News, March 26, 2001
- Part of a special edition of C&E News
featuring new voices in chemistry. Professor
Hutchison writes about the promise of green
chemistry in the future of nanoscale materials.
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- "Green Chemistry Provides Future
Scientists with Many Challenges"
- The Oregon Scientist, Spring 2001
- Two National Science Foundation grants totaling
$635,000 have been awarded to faculty in the UO
Chemistry department to promote long-term efforts
to put an environmental face on undergraduate
chemistry education.
- "UO
Chemistry Student Receives National Honors for
his Efforts"
- Cascade, Newsletter for the College of Arts and
Sciences, Fall 2000
- Doctoral student Scott Reed wins the Hancock
award in green chemistry.
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- "Hancock
Award"
- Green Chemistry Network Online, October 2000
- Doctoral student Scott Reed wins the prestigious
Hancock Award in green chemistry for his work. Go
to "News & Views" to download the
file; go to page G87 (third page down) to view
the story.
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- Duckvision
Quicktime Movie
- September 23, 2000 - the Oregon Ducks meet UCLA
at Autzen
- This video, highlighting the green organic
chemistry lab at the UO, was shown during the
game.
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- "'Green'
Chemistry for a Better World"
- Inquiry Magazine, Spring 2000
- Professors Jim Hutchison and Ken Doxsee worked
with graduate students to this new approach to
teaching organic chemistry.
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- "Green
Chemisty Awarded for his Efforts"
- Oregon Daily Emerald, July 6, 2000
- Scott Reed, a graduate student in the Hutch Lab
was awarded the UO Doctoral Research Fellowship,
along with three other university students in
other departments. Reed was the only doctoral
student in science to receive the award.
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- "UO
Already Working Toward Govenor's Sustainability
Goals."
- UO Press Release, June 5, 2000
- Highlights various programs, including green
chemistry, that have helped the UO move toward
the govenor's sustainability goals.
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- "Green
Experiments for the Organic Lab"
- Chemical & Engineering News,
February 21, 2000
- A need to reduce the use of fume
hoods results in an innovative program focused on
green chemistry.
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- "Practical Green Chemistry at the
University of Oregon"
- Green Chemistry Network Online,
February, 2000
- The Green Chemistry Network in
England has included a story about our green
chemistry lab in their website. It provides a
brief overview of the lab.
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- "University of Oregon Green
Chemistry Laboratory"
- The Journal of Green Chemistry,
Issue 1, 2000
- This feature appears in the Royal
Society of Chemistry's Journal of Green
Chemistry. The story highlights the green
chemistry lab and why it's been so successful.
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- "Organic
Chemistry Goes for the Green" (pdf format)
- The Chronical of Higher Education,
January 14, 2000
- Something new in chemistry -
faculty at the UO sought to solve a problem with
limited equipment and ended up producing a lab
with fewer safety concerns and less reliance on
fume hoods and other expensive equipment.
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- "University Finds It's Easier Being
Green"
- By Greg Bolt
- Eugene Register Guard, January 14,
2000
- The Green Organic Lab at Oregon is attracting national
attention as students and instructors find safer
and more environmentally-friendly ways to do
organic chemistry.
- "Green
Chemistry Makes Class Safer"
- By Marie Gravelle
- Salem Statesman Journal, December
4, 1999.
- This story focuses on our new
green organic chemistry lab, launched last year
as an experiment. The success of the project has
led to a decision to eventually turn all UO
organic chem labs "green." Students in
the Hutch Lab helped design the experiments used
in the new lab and served as teaching assistants.
Professor Hutchison was one of two faculty
members involved in designing the lab.
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- Associated Press Regional Wire
- By Ross West
- AP Wire, December 4, 1999
- This story was distributed on the
AP wire to local and regional newsrooms.
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- "Green Chemistry
Comes to the UO Classroom" (pdf format)
- The Oregon Scientist, Winter 1999/2000
- This story outlines the benefits that green
chemistry has in an educational setting.
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- "Going
for the Green"
- By Ben Romano
- Oregon Daily Emerald, November 29,
1999
- Another story about our green
organic lab which appeared in the UO campus
newspaper. The lab has caught the attention of
students who are concerned about the environment.
The lab and accompanying lecture teach students
how to do chemistry responsibly and seek
scientific results with less hazard to themselves
and the environment.
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- "Better Learning Through Green
Chemistry"
- Inquiry Magazine, Fall 1999
- Highlights green chemistry program
at the UO.
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- Nanoelectronics in the Hutch Lab
- Televison, April 1999
- Local television station aired a
special segment on the Hutch Lab's work on
nanoelectronics, research that could one day help
researchers make microscopic electric circuits
that could be part of the next generation of
micro computers. See the research page
for more about this exciting research.
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- Master's Internship Program
- KVAL TV, June 1999
- Local television did a feature on
our master's internship program. Professor Hutchison, who has been
intimately involved in this successful program,
was interviewed. This program enables students to
paid on-the-job experience while they finish
their master's degree. All applicants in last
year's program received job offers at the end of
their internship period. You can read more about
this program by reading the article published in
the American Chemical Society's IN Chemistry
magazine, listed below.
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- "University of Oregon
Materials Science Institute Launches Microchip
Master's Program"
- IN Chemsitry, January/February
1999
- This story features details about
the industrial master's program in it's first year. At that time, we
only had offered the program in semiconductor
manufacturing. The success of that program
allowed us to expand our offerings this year to
include the polymer sciences track. The first
students to finish that program will graduate in
June, 2000.
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