Join the League of Women Voters of Moscow for a Speaker Series presentation, From Biomass to Sustainable Systems: Innovations across the Resource–Energy–Environment Nexus, on Wed., Nov. 18 at 12 p.m. in the 1912 Center Arts Workshop Room.

This presentation will focus on strategies for transforming agricultural and forest biomass into value-added fuels, bioproducts, and functional materials while advancing sustainable resource management and environmental protection. By integrating biomass conversion, resource recovery, and sustainability assessment, the talk will highlight opportunities to build more resilient and circular systems across the resource–energy–environment nexus.

Dr. Ming-Hsun Cheng is currently an Assistant Professor of Energy and Environment and University of Idaho. Ming-Hsun joined U of I in 2022, starting his position at the Idaho Falls campus leveraging the partnership with Idaho National laboratory. He earned his PhD in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering from Iowa State University in 2017 and was doing research as a postdoc research associate at the Center for Advanced Bioproduct and Bioenergy Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining U of I. His research group focuses on Integrated Biorefinery Systems for bioproduct innovations.