MSU receives $1.7 million in stimulus funding for sustainability research

Michigan State University
Published: Aug. 10, 2009 E-mail Editor

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University scientists working with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center will use $1.7 million in federal stimulus funding to study the environmental benefits and consequences of cellulosic biofuel crops.

The Department of Energy awarded a total of $8.1 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to the center, which includes partners University of Wisconsin-Madison and MSU. About half of that money will be used to enhance and accelerate sustainability research, and the other half will research plant cell wall imaging technology.

The money allocated to biofuel sustainability research will be used to study carbon cycling, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions associated with biofuel cropping systems, as well as develop more complex modeling technology, said Phil Robertson, MSU professor of crop and soil sciences who leads GLBRC sustainability research.

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