2024 news

The first students for the Process Industries: Net Zero CDT (joint with Newcastle University) have now started at York. We are delighted to welcome Ben Chapman and Salome Raymond as pioneers on this program and look forward to recruiting larger cohorts in future years.

We were delighted to host the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Symposium - a celebration of 25 years of the journal Green Chemistry, co-sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Asynt. This event was a great first major event for York's Green and Sustainable Chemistry Research Theme.

Hannah Briers and Richard Gammons are championing the technician led project on Sustainable Solutions for Laboratory Water Management and were recently one of 4 winning teams interviewed by the RSC Chemistry World Magazine about the project.

Congratulations to the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, who have been awarded 3 platinum awards at this year's Green Impact ceremony. These were for the green impact workbook and 2 bespoke projects: Green Labs Solution Day and GreenChemPod.

Chemists at the University of York will help train the next generation of chemists in the skills needed for a greener, more sustainable future through two Centres of Doctoral Training announced today.

Further to the award in 2023 of a £2.5M Prosperity Partnership Grant from EPSRC (total value £5M), efforts have been underway at the partners involved (Croda, a global leader in high performance ingredients and technologies, based in Yorkshire, the University of Nottingham, and the University of York) to develop the next generation of polymer liquid formulations.

The United Nations Environment Programme has published a new specialised manual on green chemistry education based on research at the Department of Chemistry.