Erik Joerres Receives 2025 BBE Outstanding Service Award
BBE Professor Jason Hill warns against doubling down on biofuels as global climate solution
Current accounting methods for biofuel emissions are inconsistent with the best science, leading Hill to conclude that a rapid global expansion of these fuels is ill-advised.
Fall/Winter 2025 Department Head Message
The Department Head message for the Fall/Winter 2025 BioBriEf newsletter.
Student Spotlight - Edie Bollenbach
Student Spotlight - Ness Carda
Ness Carda is a Sustainable Systems Management major in the Sustainable Products Business Management specialization. Read about why Ness chose to pursue SSM!
Alumni Spotlight: Alice Lesch Fuels Energy Efficiency in Minnesota
Alice Lesch, 2023 graduate of the Sustainable Systems Management (SSM) program, is now a program coordinator at Frontier Energy, a private consulting firm specializing in energy and sustainability. Get to know our alumna!
Xiaowen Chen joins BBE as Assistant Professor
Xiaowen Chen joins BBE as an Assistant Professor in Biomass conversion, Biomaterial development, and Techno-economic analysis
Professor Ruan reflects on four decades of turning waste into opportunity
For more than 40 years, Professor Roger Ruan has advanced technologies that transform waste into valuable resources, sharing insights on invention, sustainability, and the human drive to build a better world.
BBE hiring three tenure-track faculty positions
We are searching for three tenure-track faculty positions this academic year (2025-26).