Bruce Babcock (pictured left) will be Iowa State's next Cargill Endowed Chair in Energy Economics and director of the university's Biobased Industry Center. Babcock has been with Iowa State's economics department since 1990 and has directed the university's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development since 1998.

To read the full length ISU News Service article by Mike Krapfl, click on the following link: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/sep/CargillChair