{"id":10929,"date":"2022-06-27T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2022-07-08T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:42:09","slug":"spotlight-on-green-chemistry-at-augsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/27\/spotlight-on-green-chemistry-at-augsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Green Chemistry at Augsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/06\/Wentzel-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/06\/Wentzel-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/06\/Wentzel-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/06\/Wentzel-2-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>An organic chemist with a focus on systems-level thinking, Associate Professor Michael Wentzel is out to make science more sustainable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChemistry doesn\u2019t have to be the solution to the problems it created\u2014it could just not create them,\u201d he says in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">June 2022 cover story in Private University Products and News Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pupnmag.com\/article\/communication-and-collaboration-in-green-chemistry-at-augsburg-university\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full profile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn more about Wentzel\u2019s path from his family\u2019s Iowa hardware store to chairing Augsburg\u2019s chemistry department, how green chemistry is \u201cbenign by design,\u201d and why he\u2019s on a mission to improve science communication.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organic chemist with a focus on systems-level thinking, Associate Professor Michael Wentzel is out to make science more sustainable. \u201cChemistry doesn\u2019t have to be the solution to the problems it created\u2014it could just not create them,\u201d he says in the June 2022 cover story in Private University Products and News Magazine. Read the full &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[571,2781],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-chemistry","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}