A new Biomass Energy Center at Penn State will coordinate and facilitate research and outreach across the university, building teams to address the complete value chain of biomass energy systems.

The Center will be working in four categories: improved production of biomass feedstocks; the integration of biomass production into sustainable agrosystems; conversion of biomass into energy; and technology transfer to companies, state agencies, nongovernmental organizations and citizens throughout the commonwealth and beyond.

The center is an interdisciplinary initiative that also includes the Eberly College of Science, the College of Engineering and the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and it will be housed in the College of Agricultural Sciences' Environment and Natural Resources Institute.

For more information, visit the Biomass Energy Center online.

11/3/2006