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Awards and Media coverage

• Ramon Gonzalez, the William W. Akers Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, discusses with CNN how his Research Group is cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into chemicals that fetch a profit.
• Dr. Gonzalez to Chair the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology
• Dr. Matthew D. Blankschien was awarded Peter and Ruth Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Nature Biotechnology: Glycerin bioprocessing goes green
• Science Daily: Pricey Chemicals Gleaned From Biodiesel Waste
• e! Science News: Research yields pricey chemicals from biodiesel waste
  
• Environment News Service: Bacteria Convert Biodiesel Waste Into Valuable Chemicals
• Science News: More bang for the biofuel buck
• Renewable Energy World: The Byproducts of Biodiesel Production Are Valuable Organic Acids, Researchers Say
  
• Wired Magazine: Turning a Glycerin Glut into Ethanol Helps Biofuel Industry
  
• Ethanol Producer Magazine: Research Reveals New Biofuels Link
  
• Biodiesel Magazine: Research Reveals New Biofuels Link
• PHYSORG: Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
  
• Dr. Gonzalez receives prestigious Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation
  
• Rice News: Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
• Biology News Net: Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
  
• Making ethanol out of biodiesel byproducts
  
• Seekingalpha: Spectacular Ethanol Production Breakthrough
  
• KUHF: Rice Researcher Uses Glycerin to Produce Ethanol
  
• Green Options: Researchers Aim to Solve Biodiesel Glycerol Problem
  
• Science Daily: Engineers Find Way To Make Ethanol, Valuable Chemicals From Waste Glycerin

Recent talks by Dr. Gonzalez

• Rice Global Engineering and Construction Forum
  
• 4th Annual Energy Technology Venture Forum
  
• Biomass to Chemicals and Fuels: Science, Technology and Public Policy

 

General

• Biofuels look to the next generation
  
• Bugs the missing link to ending oil addiction?
  
• Argonne National Laboratory Ethanol Study: Key points
  
• Honda Develops Technology To Produce Ethanol From Cellulosic Biomass
  
• Implementing biofuels on a global scale