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Join the conversation, live in the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community. Bring questions about all things green chemistry and receive expert answers from Berkley Center for Green Chemistry Executive Director, Dr. Megan Arnett!

With a PhD in neuroscience, Megan is one of many in the Green Chemistry community who comes from an interdisciplinary background. As such, Megan is constantly learning new aspects of green chemistry as the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry at UC Berkeley, where she works directly with industry partners to identify safer alternatives to chemicals in their products or processes. Megan is lead instructor for several green chemistry courses at UC Berkeley, and runs an internship program and research center in collaboration with the USDA Bioproducts Research Institute. 

The University of California, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (BCGC) is advancing green chemistry through research, teaching and engagement in the interdisciplinary areas of: New Chemistries, Health and Environment, Policy and Law, and Business and Economics. Investigators in chemistry, the environmental health sciences, public policy, business, and law are developing new science and scholarship that is placing green chemistry, alongside carbon-neutral technologies, as a cornerstone of environmentally sustainable development and the green economy.

Find Dr. Megan Arnett's AMA in the forums here!

Visit the University of California, Berkeley's profile on the Beyond Benign Website.
 

Join the Chief Editor of the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community (GCTLC) platform for a GCTLC Resource Hackathon! We’re calling all community members to join us for a virtual get-together to populate and expand the GCTLC’s library of green chemistry curriculum materials and resources. 

Bring your favorite resources including: 

• greener lab experiments

• published journal articles

• green chemistry textbooks

• tools (e.g., metrics calculators)

• websites 

• and more!

Our team members will give you a step-by-step walkthrough of the upload process for submitting to the GCTLC. Don’t have a favorite resource in mind? Fear not! We will provide a list of Beyond Benign resources you can use to help in our library build-out! 

All are welcome and encouraged to sign up for a GCTLC user account ahead of time. Have questions about signing up? Come without an account and we can create one together!

GCC Special Invite ONLY – Join us for this special information session just for GCC signers! At this event, you’ll learn about our plans for the upcoming academic year and hear about opportunities to participate in our Green Chemistry Connections, taking place from October 2023 – May 2024.

Some exciting information we’ll cover:

• Grant opportunities
• Green Chemistry Connections leadership opportunities
• Details about GCTLC accounts and connections
• A chance to work with educators from diverse backgrounds to co-design a syllabus & provide resources for a course to be piloted in Spring 2024 for the GCTLC
• An opportunity to join a team creating a module or short educational activity to demonstrate the ability for the Pharos/ChemForward tools to be used within an academic setting. 

…and much more! We look forward to seeing you there!

• Who: GCC Signers
• What: Learn about our plans for the year and opportunities specific to you!
• When: September 20, 2023 at noon ET
• Where: Online (we’ll email you details about how to connect)