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Grantee Gets New Sustainability Award
Lee Lynd, former Technology for a Sustainable Environment (TSE) grantee, just won the first Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. Lynd, a professor of engineering and adjunct professor of biology at Dartmouth College, was a grantee in the TSE partnership program between EPA and the National Science Foundation. The TSE program was developed to help protect the environment by searching for effective, economical ways to minimize pollution, and has resulted in some extraordinary processes and products. Lynd is now developing a cost-effective, one-step approach to biologically convert cellulosic biomass - such as grass, wood, wheat, and rice straw - into ethanol that can be used for fuel. Known as consolidated bioprocessing, this approach is a potential breakthrough for processing cellulosic biomass at low cost. The Lemelson-MIT Program, named after inventor Jerome H. Lemelson, recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable solutions to real-world problems, and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.
