Pioneer, Iowa State to Form Bio-based Industry Center
March 16, 2007| |
Iowa State University and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. have agreed to collaborate on a bio-based products industry center that will help meet the challenges faced by a bio-based economy. The proposed center at Iowa State will complement efforts of business and government in developing technologies based on agricultural feedstocks. Research on the economic and business aspects of a bio-based economy will be conducted in the center.
"This is a very significant gift from Pioneer which will help us leverage support from other funding sources for a bio-based industry center," said Gregory Geoffroy, Iowa State University president. "We are excited to be partnering with Pioneer and others to create this center to help facilitate the expansion of the bio-based products industry." Iowa State University was the first university in the United States to establish a graduate program in biorenewable resources and technology and offers one of the few master’s and doctoral degrees in this field.
Read the press release at http://www.pioneer.com/web/site/portal/menuitem.3a564de45522eec23f869d21d10093a0/.
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