Leading the Way to a Sustainable Food Processing Industry in ºÚÁÏÍø
The State Board of Education Higher Education Research Council (HERC) funded a three-year, $2.1M IGEM award led by Karen Humes. An interdisciplinary team from four colleges including Erik Coats, Armando McDonald and Jae Ryu, spearheaded the proposal, “Sustaining ºÚÁÏÍø’s Food Industry with an Integrated Approach to Food, Energy, Water and Waste.” This project involves supporting ºÚÁÏÍø dairies and food processors with management of waste streams, including the recovery of nutrients and valuable byproducts, assisting producers with “just right” applications of water and nutrients on crops, quantifying the connections between water and energy use in our food system and a variety of workforce development initiatives.
