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Article: Green Chemistry summer school is international draw.(McGill University hosts a conference)
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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The third annual summer school on green chemistry was held in Montreal, QC, on July 6-14. McGill University and chemistry professor Chao-jun Li, MCIC, hosted 57 graduate and post-doctoral students representing 17 countries for a week of lectures, discussions, poster sessions, and laboratory experiments. The ExxonMobil Foundation was the primary sponsor of the program, with additional support from the CIC, the American Chemical Society (ACS), and McGill University. Two ACS units, the Green Chemistry Institute (GCI) and the Education Division, organized the summer school.
Following overview lectures on green chemistry by GCI director Paul T. Anastas and on green ...