BIOREFINERY PROGRAM NEWS

USAID Grant Partners UGA and Mexican Universities in Biofuel Production: A United States Agency for International Development grant awarded to the University of Georgia will create an educational partnership to share expertise in generating fuels from waste materials with academics and professionals in Mexico's livestock industry. Read more >>

Thai Visiting Scientist: Amphol Aworn, Ph.D. student in Environmental Technology from King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand, is spending six months at the Biorefining and Carbon Cycling Program laboratories, through a scholarship from the Thailand Research Fund.

Visiting Borlaug Fellow: Krystyna Malinska, Ph.D., from the Institute of Environmental Engineering at Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland, is spending five weeks at the Biorefining and Carbon Cycling Program laboratories researching production of ethanol from ligninocellulosic biomass.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Biorefinery: Integrated System for the Conversion of Biomass to Chemicals, Fuels, and Bio-products: Presentation by K.C. Das, Tom T. Adams, Ryan Adolphson and E. Dale Threadgill. View presentation >>

From Clostridium thermoaceticum to Moorella thermoacetica: By Viewing the Old, We Learn the New: Poster by Steven L. Daniel and Harold L. Drake View poster >>

Energy Balance: The Intersection of Technology, Policy, and Economics: Hosted by the Strategic Energy Institute and Ga. Tech, 24 October 2007. Visit website >>

2006 Southeastern Biodiesel Workshop: UGA Georgia Center, May 2006. Visit website >>

BIOREFINING AND CARBON CYCLING IN THE NEWS

Glycoscience: Biology's Newest Uncharted Frontier: UGA Research Magazine, Spring 2004 Read article >>

Clearing the Air: UGA Biorefinery Reduces Build-Up of Greenhouse Gases: UGA Columns, September 2004 Read article >>

Is Algae the Next Energy Source? Georgia Trend, January 2007 Read article >>