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$100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability Winner Lee Lynd

Caption: Lee Lynd, Dartmouth engineering professor and co-founder of biofuels start-up company Mascoma Corp., is the inaugural winner of the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. Lynd and his research group are at the forefront of advanced technologies that cost-effectively convert plant matter into ethanol, which can be used for fuel.

Credit: Photo is courtesy of Mascoma Corp.

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