U of Iowa, Brookings Institution To Co-Host Energy Forum

Cedar Rapids Gazette: IOWA CITY - The University of Iowa's Lecture Committee and the Brookings Institution will co-host an energy and national security forum Oct. 17 on the UI campus.

The Opportunity 08 forum, "Energy & National Security: Biofuels and Alternative Energy in America's Policy Debate," will be held Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Iowa Memorial Union's main lounge.

The forum, co-sponsored by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research, will feature leading policy experts from Washington D.C. and Iowa on biofuels and energy policy, the environment and national security. It will feature two panels -- the first focusing on energy security and alternative energy sources, specifically ethanol and other biofuels, and the second discussing the role that energy plays in America's foreign policy.

Iowa Bioeconomy News, Oct. 8, 2007