College of Science Lecture Series: 'From Fossil Fuels Refining to Sustainable Plastics: A Surprising New Chemistry Twist'

Join us for the 2024 College of Science Lecture series! This year's theme is "Surprise Twists That Transformed Science."

Will we ever change the way we make plastics? While plastics are ubiquitous in everyday life, nearly a century has passed using processes and materials that are now accumulating and polluting the world around us. In the final lecture of this year's series, Jeffrey Pyun, professor and researcher of chemistry, will discuss his recent invention utilizing alternative waste feed stocks from the petroleum refining industry to create a wholly new class of advanced plastics. This process was invented at the University of Arizona and has quickly changed the way companies and academics think about plastic production.