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Workshop Offers ‘Production-Sized’ Chemistry Experience

Participants in annual bench to scale up class.

The week-long “Lab Bench to Pilot Plant” workshop provides hands-on, practical experience at the commercial scale. Join us May 22-26, 2017.

MSU Bioeconomy Director’s Start-Up Wins Global Automotive Award

Tom Guarr and lab

Tom Guarr’s start-up received a GAMIC award for its novel lithium-ion battery additive that caps cell voltage at a safe and efficient level.

‘Real-World’ Sabbatical Benefits Teachers, Future Students

“Wait until you get to the real world” is an adage often used in reference to the life of college students, but how does this apply to the faculty who teach those students? For the world of chemistry, the environment in an academic lab is certainly very different from that of an industrial lab, yet a good many undergraduate chemistry majors will…