Abstract
The National Microscale Chemistry Center (NMC 2 ) at Merrimack College, North Andover, Mass., is up and running, and business is booming. Its first season of workshops ended last weekend. All workshops were filled to capacity, and participants—from academe and industry—have indicated that they are eager to implement microscale chemistry at their home labs. The workshops promote laboratory waste reduction at the source and advocate improvements in the laboratory environment through application of microscale chemistry. According to the center's executive director, Ronald M. Pike, We plan to have an impact on the entire span of education—elementary, high school, community college, and college—as well as on industrial and governmental laboratories. NMC 2 was formally established in January 1993, although workshops were conducted informally over the past five years. The center is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Toxics Use Reduction Institute of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Na...
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