talk by award-winning engineer
Lee Lynd, professor of engineering at Dartmouth College and winner of the
2007 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability, will visit the campus on Thursday,
Sept. 20.
T H I S
Lynd’s talk, titled “Biomass Energy: Anticipating a Revolution,” will
begin at 4 p.m. in Bowers Aud., Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Sponsored by the
Center for Industrial Ecology and the Center for Green Chemistry and Green
Engineering, the talk is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
For more information, contact Tim DeCerbo at (203) 436-4421 or timothy.decerbo@yale.edu.
Lynd is considered to be a pioneer in the development of biomass-derived fuels,
having worked on ethanol technology since the 1980s. He holds several patents
related to biofuels and co-founded Mascoma Corp. in 2006, a cellulosic biofuels
start-up company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2007, Lynd won the first Lemelson-MIT
Award for Sustainability, one of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Awards for Invention
and Innovation.
Lynd heads an active academic research group devoted to biomass conversion,
encompassing biotechnology, process engineering and energy and environmental
public policy issues at Dartmouth College. In addition to being professor of
engineering at Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering, he is
an adjunct professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth College and a Professor
Extraordinary of Microbiology at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
An analyst and advocate of the need ,to develop and adopt alternative fuels,
Lynd co-led a multi-institution research project that produced the seminal
report, “Growing Energy: How Biofuels Can Help End America’s Oil
Dependence,” published in 2004 by the National Resources Defense Council. 
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