Grad Students Selected for NSF Green Chemistry Travel Grants

Two graduate students, members of the Research Group for Industrial Ecology, LCA and Systems Sustainability (IELCASS) at UMaine, have received National Science Foundation travel grants to present research projects at the 15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and 5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry in June.

Yosef Manik and Mason Earles were selected from a competitive pool of highly qualified applicants in this year’s NSF Scholars Program, according to professor Anthony Halog, who teaches IELCASS classes and oversees the research group. The conferences are June 21-23 in Washington, D.C. Manik and Earles were selected because they represent the “best of the best” in advancing green and sustainable chemistry, according to Joyce Kilgore, staff liaison for the ACS Green Chemistry Institute, which organizes the conferences. Manik, from Indonesia, and Earles, from Oklahoma City, also won the second and third prizes in poster competition during the GradExpo 2011 at UMaine.

Further details about the conferences are available at http://www.acs.org/gci.

Contact: Anthony Halog, 581-2944