AMES, Iowa – Bruce Babcock is ready to focus on the bioeconomy as Iowa State University’s next Cargill Endowed Chair in Energy Economics and director of the university’s Biobased Industry Center.
Babcock, an Iowa State professor of economics and current director of the university’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, assumes his new position Oct. 1. He succeeds James Bushnell, who is now an associate professor of economics at the University of California Davis.
An interim director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development is expected to be named soon.
“I’m looking forward to the new position,” Babcock said. “I’ve been moving toward bioenergy analysis and policy for the last few years. And this is a good opportunity for me to focus directly on bioenergy.”
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