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Tue, 08/27/2024

KU EARTH Center Research Thrust Leader Receives National Award from American Chemical Society

David A. Vicic, Professor of Chemistry at Lehigh University and KU EARTH Center Research Thrust Leader, received the 2025 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, which is sponsored by the ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry. ...

Wed, 08/21/2024

University of Kansas awarded $26 million for new Engineering Research Center from National Science Foundation

KU is the lead institution for a new National Science Foundation Gen-4 Engineering Research Center — Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) — that will focus on developing sustainable refrigerants to address climate change. EARTH is led by Foundation Distinguished Professor Mark Shiflett in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the KU School of Engineering.
Mon, 05/16/2022

University of Kansas testing new environmentally friendly refrigerant in Watson Library

The University of Kansas is testing a new environmentally friendly refrigerant in a Watson Library air-conditioning chiller. Built in 1924, Watson Library is the oldest and largest of KU’s libraries. The library has two York chillers that operate on refrigerant HFC-134a. The American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) act...