Chronicle of Higher Education
06-26-07
Energy Department Awards $125-Million in University Grants for Biofuel
Research
Universities will play prominent roles in three new research centers on bioenergy,
the U.S. Department of Energy said today. The consortia participating in each
center will share $125-million over five years to study how to convert plant
material other than corn starch into ethanol to fuel vehicles.
One new center will be led by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Its
academic partners will be Illinois State University, Iowa State University,
Michigan State University, and the University of Florida.
Another center will be managed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, an
Energy Department facility in Tennessee. Its academic partners will be
Dartmouth College, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of
Georgia, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
A third center will be led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is
managed by the University of California system. Its academic partners will be
Stanford University and the University of California campuses at Berkeley and
Davis. —Jeffrey Brainard