The Chicago Tribune highlights Nancy Ho's work on genetically modified yeast to make it easier and faster to turn corn cobs, wood chips and a host of agricultural wastes into ethanol.

Julie Kadrmas, graduate student, and David Hanna, senior, receive National Science Foundation Fellowships. This award is based on
their abilities and accomplishments as well as their potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise.

Gilead Sciences is listed as #1 among the top 50 business that are thriving in the recent economic picture, according to a survey done by Business Week.

Arvind Varma, R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor and Head, has been honored in a special issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research magazine, and received two honors from his undergraduate alma mater, Panjab University, in December 2008.

A new report pinpoints promising sites in five southwestern Indiana counties for underground operations that can convert coal into a gas for electricity generation, production of chemicals, and plastics and fuels for cars, trucks and aircraft.