James B. Bushnell, the new head of the Iowa State University Biobased Industry Center and Iowa State University's first Cargill Endowed Chair in Energy Economics is a Tau Beta Pi member. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, a master's degree in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 and a doctorate in industrial engineering and operations research from California, Berkeley in 1993 and was initiated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI A). Following is a link to the announcement of his appointment: <http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2009/sep/cargillchair>.