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Jon Van Gerpen (left), head of the Biodiesel Education Program at the University of Idaho, presents a plaque to Chuck Peterson, who started the biodiesel research at the University of Idaho in about 1980. On the plaque is a scale model of the Ford tractor Chuck originally used to test vegetable oil fuel.

• 30 Years of Biodiesel Research Celebration -- About 75 people gathered in Moscow, Idaho on May 25, 2010 to celebrate 30 years of biodiesel research at the University of Idaho. This link takes you to photos and Power Point presentations from the event.

• Biodiesel Articles on eXtension -- "eXtension" (pronounced E-Extension) is a wiki for extension professors from universities around the country. The Biodiesel Education Team at the University of Idaho has contributed a number of articles to the biodiesel section of eXtension.

• Interview with Dev Shrestha on Life Cycle Analysis -- this interview from the January 2010 issue of Biodiesel Magazine deals with "life cycle analysis" -- a tool to estimate the environmental, energy, and economic performance of a product or a system. Shrestha, an associate professor of bioenergy at the University of Idaho, is an expert in the field of soybean biodiesel life cycle analysis.

• Energy Life-Cycle Assessment of Soybean Biodiesel -- A scholarly paper published by the USDA in September 2009.