Our paper "Biologically mediated abiotic bisphenol A degradation by Mn-oxidizing bacteria" was published in Journal of Hazardous Materials! Congratulations, Nusrat and Maheen!
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Maheen was selected by CE department to receive the Outstanding Master Student Award. Congratulations!
Dr. Im recently established Non-Disclosure Agreements with Pioneer Inc and TerraStryke LLC.
Dr. Im has been named a Jeffrey and Joy Lessman Keystone Research Faculty Scholar by the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering. Keystone Research Scholars receive a five-year appointment that includes additional financial support for assistants, travel, equipment, summer salary, etc. The award encourages the college's best professors to catapult their intellectual activities to the highest levels of achievement through excellence in teaching, research and collaborative working relationships within the college and across the university.
Kansas State University has a university-wide initiative in Global Food Systems, or GFS, that builds on our strengths and land-grant mission to help address the challenge of sustainably feeding a world population that will double global food demand by 2050. Given the importance of food production to the Kansas economy, the innovation and knowledge resulting from this initiative are expected to assist with job creation and economic development within the state and to help Kansas remain a leader in food production. To this end, the State of Kansas has provided K-State with funding (GFS Seed Grant Program) for GFS-related research, workforce development, and economic development and innovation activities.
Dr. Im received $50K for the proposal entitled "Eco-friendly forage management towards sustainable cattle industry". The ultimate goal of this project is to develop sustainable forage management strategies that minimize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while maintaining nutritional value. To achieve this goal, we will (1) provide a comprehensive assessment of the contribution of forage conservation to GHG emissions, (2) evaluate different chemical and biological silage treatments in terms of GHG emissions and nutritional contents, (3) characterize phylogenetic and functional diversity of conserved forages, and (4) perform field scale evaluations to improve and validate the laboratory results. |