SIUE home of major ethanol research

theSouthern.com
BY CALEB HALE, THE SOUTHERN
Saturday, June 20, 2009 11:58 PM CDT

EDWARDSVILLE - The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center opened in 2003 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a mission of finding efficient and marketable ways to extract ethanol for fuel from corn.

Conceptualized less than a decade ago, when corn-based ethanol was the darling of policymakers seeking to promote a renewable alternative to lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, NCERC remains a strong advocate for corn-to-ethanol research and production, even though the biofuel industry has grown more competitive with researchers trying to extra fuel materials from various vegetative resources.

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