{"id":4676,"date":"2014-02-06T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2014-02-06T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T21:12:49","slug":"college-of-ag-sciences-announces-new-bioenergy-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/02\/06\/college-of-ag-sciences-announces-new-bioenergy-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Ag Sciences announces new bioenergy minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000\">Are you interested in alternative ways to create fuel?<\/span><\/em><\/strong> The new <a href=\"http:\/\/agsci.oregonstate.edu\/bioenergy\/bioenergy-minor\"><strong>bioenergy minor<\/strong><\/a> within OSU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/agsci.oregonstate.edu\/\">College of Agricultural Sciences<\/a> provides students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a growing and diverse field.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" title=\"Woman Researcher\" src=\"http:\/\/agsci.oregonstate.edu\/bioenergy\/sites\/default\/files\/grass.jpg\" alt=\"Woman Researcher\" width=\"220\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the need for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels is a society-wide issue with potentially large rewards.   Solving this problem is dependent on people to drive innovation, commercialization, and operation of next generation biofuels   technologies. Needed skills include discovery science, feedstock   development and production, logistics, pilot-scale and commercial-scale   industrial conversion, business and marketing, education, economics and   social sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The minor is open to all majors and provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/agsci.oregonstate.edu\/bioenergy\/bioenergy-minor\">Scholarships<\/a> (up to $1000 a term; Deadline Feb 21)<\/li>\n<li>Research &amp; Internship funding<\/li>\n<li> Excellent employment prospects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This research-based interdisciplinary minor provides an introduction to  bioenergy concepts and issues, and a significant research experience. Apply soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in alternative ways to create fuel? The new bioenergy minor within OSU&#8217;s College of Agricultural Sciences provides students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a growing and diverse field. Addressing the need for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels is a society-wide issue with potentially large rewards. Solving this problem is dependent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292108,1292103,1292105],"tags":[2733,356,2341],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-energy","category-research","tag-application","tag-energy","tag-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}