Information for European Students

Through this partnership, students from the University of Graz, the University of Ghent and the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse are invited to study biorenewables at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Courses will be offered through the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Graduate Program.

Opportunities for research in:

• Acidified/fermented vegetable quality and biochemistry
• Natural Antioxidants
• Food Processing
• Biomass energy and design of enclosed systems
• Economics of biofuels
• Extremophile biocatalysis and molecular biological engineering for higher value products from renewable resources
• Horticultural growth media from rice hulls and poultry waste
• Biomass fermentation and pilot plant operations
• Protein chemistry and functionality, natural antioxidant plant extracts, pre- and pro-biotics and value added product development
• Sensory analysis, texture and rheology evaluation
• Grape processing
• Lipid chemistry and rice hull utilization
• Rice processing
• Carbohydrate chemistry

University of Arkansas Contact:
Dr. Andrew Proctor
(email) aproctor@uark.edu
(phone) 479-575-2980
(fax) 479-575-6936