Algal Production Facility Open House - May 16

The BioCentury Research Farm will host an open house to showcase its new Algal Production Facility on May 16. Read more>>

Second Annual Hybrid Processing Symposium to be Held May 15-16

Iowa State University’s Hybrid Processing group is hosting the second annual Hybrid Processing for Biorenewable Fuels & Chemicals Production Symposium at Reiman Gardens, May 15-16 in Ames, Iowa. Symposium web site>>

VIDEO: BioCentury Research Farm Attends the 2013 ISU Day at the Capitol

The BioCentury Research Farm had a display at the 2013 ISU Day at the capitol on February 25. More than a dozen exhibits were set up around the rotunda of the capitol for legislators, staff and other elected officials to learn more about Iowa State University.
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Researcher Works to Improve Economics of Feed Costs

Helping livestock producers cope with higher feed costs is a top priority for Iowa State University researcher Kurt Rosentrater in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.
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Game-Changing Research - Putting a Spin on Biocomposites

Michael Kessler's research on developing low-cost carbon fibers from lignin was featured in the September-October issue of Composites Manufacturing magazine as one of “six projects conducted on three continents that could one day affect billions of people.”
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Q&A - Corn's Cruel Summer

Iowa State University’s resident grain quality expert Charlie Hurburgh looks at corn quality, corn genetics and the role ethanol will play in the future of corn through the lens of the most devastating drought in his memory. Read more>>

MacDonald Receives ASME Young Investigator Award

Erin MacDonald, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State and affiliated researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory, recently received the ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award. Read more>>

Iowa State Researchers Feed Pigs, Chickens High-protein Fungus Grown on Ethanol Leftovers

Initial studies show a fungus grown in the leftovers of ethanol production could be a good energy feed for pigs and chickens. In separate feeding trials, nursery pigs and chickens have eaten high-protein fungi that Hans van Leeuwen and other Iowa State University researchers have produced in a pilot plant that converts ethanol leftovers into food-grade fungi. Read more>>

Iowa State's Biofuels Simulator Featured in Safety Training Article

David Grewell's Interactive Biorefinery Operations Simulator was featured in Biodiesel Magazine. Read more>>

USDA Awards Iowa State Grant to Develope Biorenewable Plant Containers

Iowa State University has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop biorenewable and biodegradable containers for the specialty crop industry.
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Iowa State Hybrid Lab Combines Technologies to Make Biorenewable Fuels and Products

The Hybrid Processing Laboratory located just inside the front door of Iowa State University's new Biorenewables Research Laboratory is increasingly busy. It's a place where researchers in biochemical and thermochemical sciences work together to develop technologies that produce biorenewable fuels and chemicals. Read more >>

Iowa State Engineer Scales Up Process that Could Improve Economics of Ethanol Production

Iowa State University's Hans van Leeuwen has moved his research team's award-winning idea for improving ethanol production from a laboratory to a pilot plant. Read more >>

Learn to Run a Biorefinery in a Virtual Control Room Developed by Iowa State Researchers

David Grewell flipped on the augers that carry corn from a truck to a biorefinery. Then, with a few more clicks of his computer mouse, he turned on the pumps that send grain all the way through an ethanol plant, from storage to hammer mill to slurry tanks to jet cooker to liquefaction, fermentation, distillation, water separation and ultimately to ethanol storage. Read more >>

Biofuels Digest 2010 Awards

The Digest recognizes Iowa State University as Institutional Research Facility of the Year .... Iowa State's BioCentury Research Farm provides researchers with the opportunity to integrate harvesting, transportation, storage, and processing, as well as test plant breeding, genomics, cropping systems, soil conservation and nutrient management. Read more >>

Iowa State Food Science Professor Honored by Cereal Chemist Association

Larry Johnson, Iowa State University professor of food science and human nutrition, has been presented the Applied Research Award by the American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC). Read more >>

Academic Exchange Program Gives Students International Opportunities to Study Biorenewables

Oct. 1 is the deadline for seniors and graduate students to apply for an educational exchange program to study and research biorenewables, bioproducts and food processing in Europe this spring semester. Read more >>

CCUR Affiliates Awarded Grant to Develop Green-Chemicals for Oil Spill Clean Up

Finding greener methods to clean up the Gulf oil spill is the focus of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response grant. The grant was awarded to two Iowa State University faculty members who are collaborating with scientists and engineers from Modular Genetics, Inc., Columbia University and Louisiana State University (LSU). Read more >>