BBE undergraduate student studies bee health relation to cranberry fields at summer internship
Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering student, Rachel Runzheimer, spent the summer in Wisconsin working with honey bees and sustainable cranberry growth.
BBSEM Ph.D. candidate receives People's Choice award at Science in Seconds
Vinni Thekkudan Novi represented BBE at the St. Paul Science in Seconds competition where she presented her thesis on copying and clumping DNA to prevent an oak tree epidemic in under three-minutes and won the People's Choice award.
Digging into Minnesota's peat, an underappreciated climate superhero
Meet a carbon-sequestering superhero: peat moss. Efforts involving BBE researcher Chris Lenhart are underway to better understand the role that peat bogs in northern Minnesota play in mitigating climate change.
Making buildings greener will be a monumental task for Minnesota
BBE extension professor Pat Huelman talks about standards in the state's Climate Action Framework and the need to build more sustainable homes.
BBE now a CERPIT-Aligned Program
We are proud to announce that our Environmental and Ecological Engineering Specialization under the BBE major has recently completed the CERPIT alignment process.
BBE Student Highlight - Grace Wolf
Grace Wolf is a Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering major, and is the current president of BBE's student ambassador program. Get to know Grace!
Healthier foods have less environmental impact than processed foods
BBE Professor Jason Hill, Ph.D., and a team of researchers published a new study using publicly available information to derive first estimates of the environmental impact of >57,000 food products. Their data points to healthier foods as better for the planet.
BBE researchers find nitrous oxide emissions from Corn Belt soils spike when soils freeze, thaw
In a new study, BBE researcher Yufeng Yang and team, document an overlooked but crucial time-frame for nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in U.S. Midwest agricultural systems: the non-growing season.
SSM Student Spotlight - Alice Lesch
Alice Lesch is a Sustainable Systems Management major, and is the current vice president of BBE's student ambassador program. Get to know why Alice chose SSM!
