Auburn Center Receives Grant to Produce Renewable Fuels

The Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering (AC-PABE) at Auburn University recently received $300,000 from the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries to support research and development programs on alternative energy and fuels. This brings the total funding to the center provided by the state's Department of Agriculture and Industries for producing fuels from Alabama's renewable resources to $1.3 million. Read more >>

Technology Transfer Led by Yilmaz and Trident Generates More Than $2 M

With the help of Auburn faculty member Levent Yilmaz, Trident Systems Incorporated, a Fairfax, Va., based business that provides hardware and software systems to military and commercial clients, is getting some impressive returns. Trident has garnered more than $2.5 million in investment and revenue on its Safe Test Boundaries (STB) technology, of which Yilmaz was the principal investigator and lead researcher. The technology is now listed by the U.S. Navy as one of the top 50 successful Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) technology transfers of 2008 (www.navysbir.com/docs/navybook-07.pdf). Read more >>