{"id":24764,"date":"2010-11-16T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=24764"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:40:28","slug":"heat-loving-microbes-turn-waste-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/11\/heat-loving-microbes-turn-waste-into-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-loving Microbes Turn Waste into Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23781\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kennoll_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23781 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"Ken Noll_lg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kennoll_lg.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Ken Noll&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"206\" height=\"154\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kennoll_lg.jpg 700w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kennoll_lg-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 206px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 206\/154;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Noll.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WAMC Radio, a National Public Radio station out of Albany, produces daily Academic Minute spots in which professors speak for 90 seconds about their field of research and why it excites them. To date, several UConn faculty have been featured on WAMC, and their talks run weekly on <em>UConn Today<\/em>. This week&#8217;s Academic Minute is by UConn professor Ken Noll of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to Noll speaking about heat-loving bacteria that can turn waste into an alternative source of clean energy, click <a href=\"http:\/\/files.ucdev.net\/today\/2010\/10\/9-7-10 UConn - Ken Knoll - Thermotoga.mp3\" target=\"_self\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Academic Minute, hosted by philosopher and medical ethicist Lynn Pasquerella, the president of Mount Holyoke College, airs on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wamc.org\/academic-minute\" target=\"_blank\">WAMC Northeast Public Radio<\/a> weekdays at 7:37 a.m. and 3:56 p.m.\u00a0 Thanks to WAMC for the station&#8217;s permission to post these spots.<\/p>\n<h4>Other UConn Academic Minutes:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?p=25520\" target=\"_blank\">Why the Sky is Blue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=24415\" target=\"_self\">Microwave Ovens a Boon in the Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=23901\" target=\"_self\">Evolutionary Jury Rigging<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?p=23310\">Saving Energy, Reducing Waste<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Noll discusses the use of microbes that thrive in very high temperatures to make hydrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[63],"class_list":["post-24764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 18:12:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37196,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764\/revisions\/37196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24764"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=24764"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}