The Bioeconomy Institute (BEI) is an outgrowth of the Bioeconomy Initiative - a campus wide effort, launched in 2002, to investigate the use of biorenewable resources as sustainable feedstocks for producing chemicals, fuels, materials, and energy. Today, the BEI has over 140 faculty affiliated members who contribute to the Bioeconomy Initiative with over $37 million in cumulative sponsored research funding from industry and federal agencies ranging from the Department of Agriculture to the National Science Foundation.
 Iowa State University |
 BEI Research Lab |
Assoc. Prof. Brent Shanks, (co-PI)
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
For more information visit http://www.biorenew.iastate.edu/homepage.html
and http://www.cbe.iastate.edu/