Graduates or Professionals (e.g., Postdoctoral Fellows, Early-Career Professionals)

Join science educators from across New York's Capital Region for the 42nd Annual Eastern STANYS Spring Conference. This regional gathering returns to Siena University and brings together K-12 teachers, local experts, and science organizations to share effective classroom strategies and enhance science instruction across various disciplines.

All sessions are aligned with the New York State Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS). Attendees can participate in two 45-minute sessions, along with the keynote address, to earn 5 CTLE credits.

👋 If you attend, be sure to connect with Beyond Benign Certified Lead Teachers Stefanie Loomis and Annette Sebuyira.

🗓️March 6, 2026

⏰4–9 p.m. ET

📍Siena University

🔗 Learn more and register

Are you interested in incorporating green chemistry and sustainability into your classroom or lab? Do you want to excite your students about science but need some inspiration? With over 400 resources available, including open-access materials and linked journal articles, there’s something for everyone on the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community (GCTLC).

Join Dr. Sarah Kennedy, Chief Editor of the GCTLC, on January 14th from 6-7 p.m. EST for a free info session to learn how to easily search and find relevant content on the GCTLC platform. This interactive session will cover how to search using common filters and topics, such as grade level, NGSS standards, activity type, keywords, and more. 

This session is free to join and open to all community members. Join us to deepen your engagement in this community and discover exciting new resources you can use in your classroom or lab! 

🔗 Zoom details: 

• No registration needed—just use this Zoom link to join us on January 14th from 6 to 7 p.m. EST. 
• Meeting ID: 875 1688 0432
• Passcode: 342758

Join us as we once again bring members of the pollution prevention community together. This year you will be able to connect with peers, gain practical insights, and celebrate the progress of pollution prevention as NPPR's annual meeting returns. The conference will be held in four half-day sessions on December 10-11 & 17-18, 2025 starting at 9 AM (PT) / noon (ET) / 5 PM (UTC) highlighting success stories, innovative tools, community-based solutions, and emerging chemicals of concern. 

Conference rates

NPPR members: Free

Non-member (4 days, includes one year of NPPR membership): $145

Non-member (1 day rate): $50

Retiree (4 days, includes one year of NPPR membership): $95

Student (4 days, includes one year of NPPR membership -- register with your .edu address): $45

Conference agenda

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 40 Years of Pollution Prevention Success Stories

•  Pollution Prevention Over the Years
• Keynote Speaker
• Interns to Impact: 20 Years of Pollution Prevention Wins for People, Profit, & Planet
• Sustainable Internship Program (OASIS) in Oregon Helps Businesses Reduce Their Pollution Impact
• Advancing Pollution Prevention Through Toxics Reduction

Thursday, December 11, 2025 P2 Innovation and Tools

•  Tracking Remote Work: Colorado's New Resource Calculator Tool
• TRI-based Pollution Prevention Plans
• Exploring AI in Support of Pollution Prevention
• Building a Cross-Sector EPD Database: Advancing Transparency in Product Impact
• Compliance Dashboard
• Private Sector P2 Professionals Workgroup

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 P2 and Compliance in Communities

•  Washington State Pollution Prevention Assistance for Small Businesses
• Building Bridges: How Municipal Partnerships Amplify Technical Assistance Programs
• Small Businesses, Big Pollution Prevention Impacts: Oregon's EcoBiz Program
• Safer Choices Community of Practice: Making Informed Decisions
• P2 and Lithium-Ion Batteries: Preventing Battery Fire Disasters and Associated Pollution
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Processing Workgroup

Thursday, December 18, 2025 Chemicals of Concern

•  Highlights of the PFAS Source Identification Journey
• Collaborations Drive Alternatives to PFAS
• Western States PFAS Strategic Plan
• Developing, Marketing, and Promoting a New, Safer Industrial Cleaner
• Addressing 6PPD in Tires: Pathways to Protect Salmon from 6PPD-quinone

This congress will take place from October 22 to 25, 2025, jointly hosted by Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), with support from institutions such as ACS Guatemala Chapter, and the Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.

The event features:
- Free participation in conferences and workshops
- Topics including green chemistry, supramolecular materials, quantum dots, and photochemical degradation
- Speakers from Mexico, Guatemala, and Latin America
- A bilingual audience and regional outreach to Central America and southern Mexico

Registration via this link:  
👉 https://forms.office.com/r/4ijTjTif4i?origin=QRCode&qrcodeorigin=presentation 

Your Event For Greener Labs

Explore how you can make your assays, instruments, and experiments more sustainable - without much time, risk, or effort—based on real case studies. Discover where we are at and what you can do to save plastics, energy and reagents - without affecting your workflows.

This event is free to register.

Materials science is accelerating the transition to a sustainable future characterized by clean energy and a circular economy. As research rises to meet these global challenges, it becomes increasingly important to assess the potential impacts – economic, environmental, and social – of new innovations. This symposium will explore the integration of sustainability and societal considerations across material readiness levels: from research to development and ultimately deployment. Interdisciplinary talks will be solicited on key themes such as incorporating sustainability, economic, and social metrics into early-stage materials research; strategies for enabling circular material flows and minimizing waste; understanding the supply chain and social dimensions of materials; and case studies of the successful application of analysis to guide competitive clean and circular material development. Upon completion of this symposium, materials scientists and engineers will be equipped with a toolkit of resources and case studies to guide the evaluation and amplification of the broader impacts of their research.

The 13th ISMC will be a conference for school teachers of chemistry, school science technicians, academics, and educational professionals from the UK and overseas with the aim of promoting Microscale and Small-Scale Techniques (MaSSTs) in chemistry education.

Join us for the 2026 BCCE on July 26-30, 2026!
The 29th BCCE will be held on the lakeside campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Summer of 2026. The conference, like all of its predecessors, provides the chemistry education community with opportunities to interact and engage. The conference will be a mixture of symposia, workshops, poster sessions, exhibits, and spaces for both formal and informal conversations.

Important Dates:
Request for Programs is open from August 1 to November 10, 2025. Click here for proposal submission guidelines.
Request for Abstracts open February–March, 2026
Registration will Open Early March 2026

About AOAC SEA

The aim of AOAC SEA is to bring together government, industry, and academia to establish standard methods of analysis. This ensures the safety and integrity of foods and other products that impact public health around the world. The vision is to be a contributor in developing confidence through consensus-based analytical solutions for food safety, food integrity, and public health across Southeast Asia countries.

Past and Upcoming Conferences

Previous annual conferences were held in Singapore (2022), Vietnam (2023), and the Philippines (2024), each enabling over 200 delegates to attend in person. The 4th Annual AOAC SEA Conference, with the theme "Advancing Food Safety and Quality: Innovation, Standards, and Collaboration," will be held at the Berkeley Hotel Pratunam in Bangkok, Thailand, on 28–29 October 2025.

The need to equip students with the tools to connect core chemistry concepts to real-world sustainability challenges has never been more urgent. That’s why green chemistry and systems thinking are now required components of ACS-approved bachelor’s degree programs.

To support this transformative shift, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute is collaborating with a national network of educators to develop powerful new teaching resources. Join David A. Laviska of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute, Michelle Brooks of the American Chemical Society, and Loyd Bastin of Widener University as they provide you an extensive library of resources ACS offers to modernize your curricula and show you how to bring green chemistry to life in your classrooms.

This ACS Webinar is co-produced with the ACS Green Chemistry Institute.

What You Will Learn

• How chemistry curricula are evolving to empower students to tackle global challenges
• Brand-new ACS green chemistry resources created specifically for educators
• Practical, first-hand strategies to implement curriculum changes that truly resonate with students

Event Details

• Thursday, August 7, 2025 @ 2-3pm ET
• Free to attend
• Slides will be available to download on the day of the webinar