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President's homepage About Geoffroy Biography Download photo Speeches Planning Strategic plan Accreditation, planning President's report 'Where Breakthroughs Happen' (PDF) President's staff President's Council ISU organization chart Distinguished Awards Celebration 2009 Presidential Lecture series	Budget reduction plan to regents President Geoffroy presented Iowa State's plan for dealing with a mid-year $24.5 million reduction in state funding during the Oct. 29 meeting of the State Board of Regents. Geoffroy's presentation to the board (PDF). Letter to employees on reduction plan In an Oct. 29 e-mail, president Gregory Geoffroy thanked the campus community for input on budget reductions and outlined plans for handling a mid-year cut in state funding. Geoffroy: More budget challenges ahead In his Sept. 21 fall convocation remarks, President Gregory Geoffroy praised the university's overall response to difficult economic times and predicted more budget challenges in the coming year. "The real challenge for all of us is how to best adjust to those changes and to the new fiscal realities while simultaneously staying true to our mission and still finding ways to fulfill it at the highest levels of excellence and impact," Geoffroy said. University leaders discuss budget issues with legislative subcommittee President Gregory Geoffroy and the other regents university presidents met with the Iowa Legislature's Education Appropriations Subcommittee March 3 to discuss the effects of reduced state appropriations to the universities. See: President Geoffroy's remarks ISU response to subcommittee questions Regent President David Miles' remarks (PDF file) Vision: To make ISU a model of energy efficiency President Geoffroy and his advisory committee seek to make Iowa State University a model of energy efficiency -- a university that leads the way in conserving energy and minimizing its impact on global climate change. More about Live Green! Presidents Kim and Geoffroy Geoffroy strengthens ISU-Asian ties Gregory Geoffroy and Chong Yang Kim, president of Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, signed a commitment agreement during the ISU president's recent travels to Asia. In an effort to recognize and strengthen ISU's recruiting and alumni links, Geoffroy made stops in South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Republic of China (Taiwan). See photos. ISU wins grant to create NSF center for biorenewable chemicals The National Science Foundation has awarded Iowa State and its research partners an $18.5 million grant to establish the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals based at Iowa State. The center's focus will be to develop catalysts that promote the chemical reactions that can efficiently produce biorenewable chemicals. More. About the president Gregory Geoffroy became Iowa State's 14th president on July 1, 2001. He has 35 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at three of the nation's leading land-grant universities. Feature on the Geoffroys \| Biography	Making an impact Iowa State is the source of $1.52 billion that is channeled into the Iowa economy each year -- more than six times the state's annual appropriation to ISU. Read more about ISU's contributions to the Iowa economy (pdf). President Gregory Geoffroy.