SGCE Leadership and Organization

Operating Committee

Michael Young, Ph.D.

Director, SGCE

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

419.530.1524

Michael.Young8@utoledo.edu

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Glenn Lipscomb, Ph.D.

Associate Director, SGCE

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

419.530.8088

glenn.lipscomb@utoledo.edu

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Marc Seigar, Ph.D.

Dean and Professor, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics

419.530.7840

marcus.seigar@utoledo.edu

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Patricia A. Relue, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering

419.530.8098

patricia.relue@utoledo.edu

External Advisory Board

Amy Cannon	Co-Founder & Executive Director	Beyond Benign
Joseph Cotruvo	President (US EPA, retired)	Joseph Cotruvo and Associates, LLC
Aaron Coulter	Process Engineering Manager	PBF Energy (Toledo Refinery Corp)
Dave Foulkes	Environmental Specialist	Ohio EPA
David Green	Expert Applied Sustainability	BASF
Tom Hughes	General Partner	Halden Enterprises, LLC
Nate Gaubert	Manager of Research & New Product Development	Spartan Chemical Company
Annie Labut	Managing Toxicologist, Green Chemistry & Sustainability	NSF International
Nancy Linde	Senior Toxicologist	ToxServices, LLC
Joel Tickner	Professor of Public Health, UMass; & Executive Director	Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Green Chemistry and Commerce Council

Organization

The School of Green Chemistry and Engineering is led by an operating committee consisting of the Director, Associate Director, Dean of the College of Engineering and Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. An External Advisory Board of academic, industry, government and community leaders provides oversight and direction for the SGCE. In addition, a Program Manager will assist with student recruitment, marketing and advertising, accounting, grant proposal submissions, outreach activities and day to day operations.

The organizational structure is illustrated in the figure below. The SGCE is organized to avoid competition with existing departmental and college structure for resources. To maintain a good working relationship, to garner internal support and to avoid conflict and duplication of effort, the SGCE is organized to add to and strengthen the existing structure, promoting and facilitating mutually beneficial academic programs, interdisciplinary projects and research in areas of green chemistry and green engineering.

The director reports directly to the Dean of the College in which the director holds a tenured faculty appointment. Currently, that is the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The director also reports indirectly and works closely with the Dean of the College of Engineering. The director also works with department chairs regarding pertinent teaching and service assignments of relevance to the SGCE. Associated faculty and staff and their budget lines remain with individual departments, not the SGCE.