Dow gives UC Berkeley $2 million for sustainable products program

The University of California, Berkeley got a $2 million gift from the Dow Chemical Co. Foundation that will pay to start a new program providing teaching and research opportunities in the area of sustainable products and solutions. According to a report in San Francisco Business Times, the foundation intends to provide a total of $10 million over the next five years and to help the program find additional foundation and corporate sponsors. Based at the Center for Responsible Business at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the Sustainable Products and Solutions (SPS) Program is being established in partnership with Cal’s College of Chemistry. The program will focus on sustainability issues involving society, science, engineering, the environment and finance. A request for proposals will be issued later this fall seeking research and education ideas, primarily from master’s degree-level and doctoral students at Cal.