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IGERT Story

IGERT students completed international travel

K-State students attend training in Graz, Austria

Author(s):

Keith Rutlin

Projects:

From Crops to Commuting: Integrating the Social,...

Institution:

Kansas State University

Category:

News Clippings

Description

Pictured here from left to right is IGERT trainee Anne Rigdon, from the Kansas State University Grain Science and Industry Department; IGERT trainee Todd Ballard, KSU Agronomy Department; Dr. Ron Madl, Director, Bioprocessing & Industrial Value Added Program at KSU and Co-director, KSU Center for Sustainable Energy at KSU; and Lauren Brewer, PhD student from the KSU Grain Science Department.

Anne Rigdon and Todd Ballard spent two weeks in Graz, Austria on a National Science Foundation funded educational experience titled “Sustainable Utilization of Renewable Resources”.

Dr. Madl provided a presentation at Karl Franzens University (Graz, Austria).

Lauren Brewer is taking part in a semester long FIPSE funded Exchange Program in Graz, Austria.