Pioneer Hi-Bred International Professorship in Innovation

Pioneer Hi-Bred International Professorship in Innovation was established by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., a DuPont company, to advance the bio-based lubricants industry. It recently renewed its support for the Pioneer Professorship of Innovation, held by Associate Professor of Management Dr. Lou Honary. The gift supports the efforts of the National Ag-Based Lubricants Center (NABL) as it continues to create new biobased lubricants, improve the value and effectiveness of biobased lubricants, provide testing for users, and serve as a major advocate for these products. The National Ag-Based Lubricants Center is a unit of Business and Community Services, the external outreach division of UNIBusiness. The unit specifically targeted the $20 billion domestic petroleum lubricants market and channels faculty resources toward activities that benefit Iowa’s agricultural economy. The work of NABL and Dr. Honary is internationally known, placing UNIBusiness at the forefront in the area. UNIBusiness thanks Pioneer Hi-Bred International for its continuing support of this professorship.

Dr. Lou Honary

Dr. Lou Honary is the first receipient for the Pioneer Hi-Bred International Professorship in Innovation. He is the associate professor of management at UNI. Dr. Honary has helped the biobased lubricants industry advance to a point beyond what most believed possible only a few years ago, yielding higher premiums for farmers, new jobs in rural Iowa, and environmentally friendly, renewable products that reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Lou Honary has been the world’s leading researcher, developer and promoter of soy-based industrial lubricants.