BASF and Harvard University announce extensive research col...(l Exploring new chemical approaches...)

• Exploring new chemical approaches to processes and materials like exploring carbon dioxide chemistry.

"We must be as innovative in funding and translating research as we are in conducting it. By establishing the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard, we can bolster our existing excellence in basic and applied research, and develop new ways to bring research out of the lab," said Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean, SEAS, John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor, and Professor of Physics.

"We are delighted to be working together with one of the world's most respected universities for science and engineering," said Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft and Executive Research Director. "We expect this initiative to generate new and unconventional innovations, which can lead to future products that are relevant to the needs of society."

BASF's Dr. Jens Rieger, scientific director of Polymer Research, and Harvard's David Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, and George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, will direct the initiative. Rieger collaborates with Weitz to establish a broad-based research network composed of faculty and students in laboratories located throughout Harvard. Faculty investigators will have the freedom to distribute and publish any findings arising from the initiative's research efforts.

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