Introduction by Catherine Hunt, Dow

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Kristine Chin
Mamadou S. Diallo
Catherine T. “Katie” Hunt
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2. Catherine T. “Katie” Hunt
R&D Director, The Dow Chemical Company

3. Bridging the Gap,
Transforming the Future
 Education
 Collaboration
 Innovation

4. Defining Sustainability
• Sustainability requires making every decision
with the future in mind.
• It is our relationship with the world around us
– creating economic prosperity and social
value while contributing to the preservation of
our planet.

5. The Journey to
Sustainability
Decreasing
Resources
Unsustainable Sustainable
Increasing
Demands
Source: The Natural Step

6. Starting with the End in
Mind
Invoking Systems Thinking
Future Visioning
Present
Backcasting
Source: The Natural Step

7. Bridging the Gap,
Transforming the Future
 Education
 Collaboration
 Innovation

8. Selecting the right partners
Government
Academia Industry
National Lab

9. Science for a Sustainable
world
Smart Innovations
Solutions For Tomorrow
Our technologies enable We contribute to the
our customers, and their sustainability of society
customers, to develop and our planet by
products and services for developing innovative
a more sustainable future. technologies for current
and future markets.
Responsible Partners
Operations For Change
Our infrastructure has a We are leaders in advancing
positive impact on our all aspects of sustainability,
company, our communities openly collaborating with
and ourselves; our operations customers, suppliers,
are a model for others, communities, civil society
wherever we operate. and governments.

10. Bridging the Gap,
Transforming the Future
 Education
 Collaboration
 Innovation

11. Tanja Pietrass
Deputy Division Director, Chemistry Division,
National Science Foundation

12. Mark Johnson
Program Director,
Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy
Associate Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering and Director of Engineering for the
Technology, Entrepreneurship and
Commercialization Program,
North Carolina State University

13. Harry A. Atwater
Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
The California Institute of Technology

14. James C. Stevens
Corporate Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company

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16. Andy Davis
Manager of Public Affairs, Molycorp

17. Paul L. Edmiston
Theron & Dorothy Peterson Professor of Chemistry,
College of Wooster
Chief Science Officer and Founder,
ABS Materials Inc.

18. Susannah L. Scott
Professor of Chemical Engineering and
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California - Santa Barbara

19. Catherine T. “Katie” Hunt
R&D Director, The Dow Chemical Company

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Kristine Chin
Mamadou S. Diallo
Catherine T. “Katie” Hunt
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NSF Award CHE-1246538
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23. Mamadou S. Diallo
Associate Professor and Director of the
Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Systems
for Water Sustainability, Graduate School of Energy,
Environment, Water and Sustainability (EEWS), KAIST
Visiting Faculty in Environmental Science and Engineering
Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of AquaNano, LLC

24. Bruce A. Moyer
Leader, Chemical Separations Group in the
Chemical Sciences Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

25. Mamadou S. Diallo
Associate Professor and Director of the
Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Systems
for Water Sustainability, KAIST
Visiting Faculty in the Environmental Science
and Engineering Option of the Division of
Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech

26. Robin D. Rogers
Distinguished Research Professor,
Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry,
and Director of the Center for Green Manufacturing,
The University of Alabama

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28. Moderator: Katie Hunt;
Panelists: Mark Johnson, Bruce Moyer, Robin Rogers

29. Lin He
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University
Adjunct Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical
Engineering, UNC/NCSU
Program Director,
Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI)
Chemistry Division
National Science Foundation

30. Rosemarie Wesson
Acting Director for the Emerging Frontiers in Research
and Innovation (EFRI) Program and Acting Senior Advisor
for Emerging Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research,
National Science Foundation
Adjunct Professor Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Maryland, College Park

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Conclusion
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