Auburn - College of Agriculture receives $6 million in grants

The Auburn Plainsman
by Charles Martin / WRITER The Auburn Plainsman
9/23/10

The National Science Foundation has awarded Auburn University a $4.6 million grant to renovate research laboratories that will enhance the University’s biological engineering programs.

The College of Agriculture’s Department of Biosystems Engineering will use the funding to upgrade the Tom Corley Building Annex, which was constructed in 1948.

The renovated 23,000-square-foot facility will allow Auburn to increase its research into bioenergy and bioproducts engineering, ecological engineering, food safety engineering, biosystems automation and best management technologies.

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