Gift from PPG supports Chemistry students and groups
Joint Safety Team demo event
Participants at a Joint Safety Team demo event in January 2020. The organization, supported by PPG, is led by graduate student and postdoctoral associate laboratory safety officers focused on improving the culture of safety in the University of Minnesota chemical laboratories.

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/18/2022)—PPG, a Fortune 500 company, has continued its support of graduate students in the Department of Chemistry.

The department has received $37,500 in support of graduate student diversity fellowships. PPG shares the department’s goal of recruiting and retaining diverse students, and building a pipeline of talent into PPG’s workforce.

“PPG’s gift is a longtime investment in students,” said David Blank, head of the chemistry department. “Our partnership with PPG came about—and has grown—because of an overlap in scientific interest and a focus on diversity.”

Two student groups have also benefited from PPG’s generosity. The UMN POLY/PMSE group, which is affiliated with the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY) and the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE), and the Joint Safety Team (JST), which is focused on improving the culture of safety in the University’s chemical laboratories, each received $5,000.

Read the full story on the College of Science & Engineering website.

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