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Plastics: Then and Now

May 20, 2024
Various materials have been used to produce and manufacture goods throughout the years. (left) Billiard balls used to be made from ivory, which was harvested from elephants. (center) Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, was a popluar choice in manufactured goods like the early plastic telephones and radios. (right) Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), plasticized in the early 20th century, is widely used in piping systems.
May 21, 2024

The broad range of polymers known as plastics continues to evolve and grow. Learn about early plastics and about where plastics are headed.

CCPS Latin American Conference on Process Safety - 2024 - Pryxida TECH

Why should you be an anti-racist?

eLearning (online) Course
Learn how to address racism and bias in academia and other life situations. Recent events in the news have many of us growing increasingly more...

Chemtrade Logistics Inc.

SEED Conference Speaker Cullen Buie on Prospects for Synthetic Biology

May 20, 2024
May 23, 2024

Hear from MIT’s Cullen Buie about his research and where he sees exceptional potential for synthetic biology.

The shore has no choice / It has to accept / Whatever the tides bring.

Imaikalani Kalahele, poet, artist May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

5 steps to complete your work when it snowballs

When the magnitude of the work you need to do feels overwhelming, career coach and author Luciana Paulise's first piece of ad - More -

Next week's Virtual Local Section meeting explores hydrocarbons conversion to high-value chemicals

At next week's meeting of AIChE's Virtual Local Section (VLS), Sreekanth Pannala, a Research Fellow at SABIC Corporate R&D, w - More -

Government plan aims to improve biotech regulations

The Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture have announced plans to impro - More -

Researchers make advances in proteomics

Researchers are progressing toward the ability to use nanopore sequencing for protein analysis and modification, says chemica - More -

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