Purdue fuel research gets $20 million boost

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By ERIC WEDDLE • eweddle@jconline.com • May 8, 2009

Purdue University could soon break staggering ground in biofuel research.

It was announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Energy will devote $20 million of federal stimulus money to fund an energy center at Purdue focused on developing technology that creates gasoline-like fuel from renewable biomass.

"This is what the Department of Energy has termed high-risk, high-reward," said Maureen McCann, an associate professor of biological sciences who is leading the center nicknamed C3Bio. "It could fail or we could have success that would be tremendous."

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