MURFREESBORO — For
the 19th annual MTSU Department of Chemistry Golden Goggles Award
lecture, event organizers have invited one of Georgia Tech’s top researchers to
serve as keynote.
Dr. Christopher “Chris” Jones, associate vice president for
research, will be speaking at 6 p.m. Friday, April 3, in Science Building Room
1003. It is free and open to the public. For parking and building location, a
printable campus map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
Golden Goggles
has become one of MTSU chemistry department’s highlight events. Well-known
speakers, usually from the higher education, share timely topics. Past speakers
have discussed therapeutic cloning, herbal remedies and green chemistry.
“We invited him to share his great knowledge
on green chemistry and technology development for CO2 (carbon dioxide)
separation and conversion,” said Keying Ding, an assistant chemistry professor.
“Green chemistry and technology represent the fundamental building blocks of
sustainability.”
“The scientific
and technological breakthroughs in green chemistry and technology will be not
only crucial to the global economy, but also have a great impact on the
environment, such as consuming less energy for chemical production,
limiting pollutants emissions and reducing waste disposal,” Ding added.
Jones, 41, a
Detroit, Michigan-area native, said he is “honored and pleased to have the
opportunity to meet students, faculty and staff at MTSU, and discuss our shared
interest in chemistry.”
“Chemistry is the
‘central science,’ touching all aspects of daily life, and any opportunity to
share my passion for chemistry with others is always rewarding,” he added.
Jones, who
serves as New-Vision Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at
Georgia Tech, will be speaking about carbon dioxide-related research he and the
Jones Research Group has been conducting.
“In
my opinion, the most important problem of the current era is the energy/climate
problem associated with all the carbon dioxide human activity has produced in
the last 100 to 150 years, which is altering the global climate,” he said about
his talk.
“My
research talk will frame this problem for students, faculty and staff
unfamiliar with the details of it, as well as how my own research is aimed at
making large scale carbon dioxide capture feasible,” he added.
Jones directs a
research program focused mainly on catalysis and carbon dioxide separation,
sequestration and utilization. Among many honors, he received the Ipatieff
Prize from the American Chemical Society in 2013 for his work on palladium
catalyzed Heck and Suzuki coupling reactions.
His efforts have
brought in more than $46 million in sponsored research in the past 15 years. In
his VP role at Georgia tech, he directs campuswide research administrations
with a main focus on interdisciplinary research efforts and policy related to
research institutes, centers and research core facilities.
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