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Iowa State’s van Leeuwen named R&D Magazine’s 2009 Innovator of the Year

Hans van LeeuwenIowa State University’s Hans van Leeuwen, who has led research teams awarded back-to-back R&D 100 awards for biofuels developments, has also been named R&D Magazine’s 2009 Innovator of the Year .

Lindsay Hock, the magazine’s managing editor, wrote that the magazine’s awards honor “the people behind some of the greatest innovations and discoveries in science.” And the Chicago Tribune once called the magazine’s awards the “Oscars of Invention.”

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ECpE researcher part of team providing technical expertise and some biological overlay to maize genome sequence

60b9863d4aSrinivas Aluru, Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl Professor of Computer Engineering, is on the team of researchers who have developed methods for the assembly of sequence data and conducted much of the ongoing functional analysis work on the completion of the maize genome sequence as part of a multi-institutional effort led by the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and including the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. Read more about their research here.

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Engineering students form club to lower nation’s carbon footprint, electrically

Environmental Technologies, or EnTech, was created by students in Iowa State’s College of Engineering in hopes of furthering “interest and education in environmental technologies,” according to their mission statement. The dream is to build an electric car, but the immediate project is building an electric motorcycle charged by natural means–hopefully by Veishea 2010. Read the Iowa State Daily story and see what else the club is involved in.

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