Emily Heaton: A Q&A with CABBI’s Feedstock Production Theme Leader

by | May 25, 2021 | Feedstock Production, News, Sustainability

  Agronomist Emily Heaton has been part of CABBI from the start as a Sustainability researcher at Iowa State University. Now back at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — her alma mater and research training ground — Heaton has taken over leadership of...

Incentives Could Turn Costs of Biofuel Mandates into Environmental Benefits

by | Apr 22, 2021 | News

New studies from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) shed more light on the economic and environmental costs of mandates in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), a federal program to expand the nation’s biofuels sector. Researchers said...

CABBI Offers New Summer Research Internship

by | Apr 2, 2021 | News

A new research opportunity for undergraduates interested in a STEM career will launch this summer at the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI). The Research Internship in Sustainable Bioenergy (RISE) is a 10-week summer program designed to provide...

Genetics Expert Dan Voytas Joins CABBI Feedstock Production Team

by | Mar 15, 2021 | Feedstock Production, News

A renowned genetics expert who has worked for two decades to improve gene-editing techniques in plants has joined the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI). Dan Voytas, the McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor and Director of the Center...

CABBI ABCs: Learn our Terminology

by | Mar 4, 2021 | News

CABBI Challenges CRP Status Quo, Mitigates Fossil Fuels

by | Feb 22, 2021 | News, Sustainability

Researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) found that transitioning land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to bioenergy agriculture can be ad­­­vantageous for American landowners, the government, and the...