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Highlighted Resources 
Program Focus
Upcoming Events and Professional Development Opportunities
Highlighted Resources
Dig it! The Secrets of Soil, Greenhouse Gas Calculator This interactive, animated online activity puts students in the role of a farmer, deciding what crops to grow and what farming practices to use to balance high yield with lower greenhouse gas emissions. It is part of a larger exhibit on soils at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
 
Video: Biofuels Debate Are all biofuels bad? How they are produced makes all the difference. This 5-minute video from the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment does a nice job going through the issues.
 
Video: Fields of Study: Switchgrass breeding For those of you who ask us, ”Why switchgrass?”, this is the video for you. It describes the history of switchgrass cultivation in the United States as well as the different varieties and goals of the breeding program.
 
Program Focus
Two Education and Outreach 2009 summer programs were recently featured in articles on the GLBRC website. If you didn’t catch them, click on the links to learn more.
Research Experience for Undergraduates
Research Experience for Teachers

Upcoming Events Calendar and Professional Development Opportunities
Are you interested in staff professional development workshops on biofuels? please contact us directly. For details on the events below, please visit our website calendar.
 
December 1 and 9—iGEM recruitment meetings, Madison, WI
December 16—Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio, Ideas Network
February 15—Whys and Wows! Discovery World, Milwaukee WI
March 6—MSTA, Michigan Science Teacher Association, Lansing, MI
March 20—NSTA, National Science Teachers Association, Philadelphia, PA
April 10—Science Expeditions. Madison, WI
April 15-17—WSST, Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers, LaCrosse, WI
 
We encourage you to visit our website at least once a month to look for new materials we have posted.
http://www.greatlakesbioenergy.org/education/
 
Feel free to contact us with questions or feedback at education@glbrc.wisc.edu or call 608-890-2828. If you know others who would like to be added to this list, please send us their contact information including name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, city, state and day-time phone number.
GLBRC is supported by the Department of Energy and DOE Bioenergy Research Centers