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Applications for the 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Program are now available.
CENTC invites college students with an interest in chemistry to apply for a unique summer research program as part of a collaborative distributed center.


What is CENTC?

The Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis (CENTC) is a National Science Foundation Phase II Center for Chemical Innovation. CENTC brings together researchers from across North America to collaboratively address the economic, environmental and national security needs for more efficient, inexpensive and environmentally friendly methods of producing chemicals and fuels from a variety of feedstocks.

Through catalysis, CENTC researchers can lower the energy costs to transforming chemicals, use inexpensive, abundant and nontoxic starting materials and generate less waste. Fundamentally new technologies are needed to reduce our dependency on foreign oil both for fuels and for chemicals. The production of chemicals including plastics and medicines from petroleum can be made more efficient through catalysis. Novel catalytic methods are also needed to develop alternatives to petroleum for fuels and chemicals. Coal, shale and biomass may all be viable as starting materials for the production of fuels.
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CENTC News

Alan Goldman Selected for Inaugural ACS Catalysis Lectureship
CENTC investigator Alan Goldman has been selected as the inaugural winner of the ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science.


Karen Goldberg Elected AAAS Fellow
CENTC Director Karen Goldberg has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).


CENTC Sponsors Events at SACNAS National Conference
In recognition of the International Year of Chemistry, CENTC sponsored two events at the 2011 SACNAS National Conference in San Jose.


"Chemists -- Catalysts for Change" opens at Pacific Science Center.
CENTC is pleased to announce the opening of our new exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.


Melanie Sanford receives MacArthur "Genius" Award
CENTC investigator Melanie Sanford has been named a recipient of the 2011 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, otherwise known as the Genius Award.


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