The University of Georgia’s bioenergy initiative has received a boost with the successful recruitment of forestry scientist Chung-Jui Tsai, who joins the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources as the latest Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.
University of Georgia researchers received two grants totaling $2.5 million to help find better ways to produce biofuels from switchgrass and sunflowers.
An award to University of Georgia researchers is one of six selected nationally on cost-effective, environmentally friendly biomass conversion technologies for turning non-food feedstocks into advanced biofuels.
As our nation looks to plants to satisfy its growing energy demands, University of Georgia researchers are searching for answers to both long-term and near-term research questions associated with bioenergy production.
UGA’s Biofuels, Biopower, and Biomaterials Initiative (B3I) unites the University’s legacies in agriculture, forestry, environmental science and engineering with its strengths in carbohydrate science, genetics and microbiology to provide a scientific and practical foundation to support an economic and sustainable bioenergy future.
Joy Doran Peterson
Director, Task Force Chair
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January 29, 2009
Athens, Ga. - Southerners may best know sorghum as sweet, biscuit-topping syrup. But the small grain's uses … More›
December 17, 2008
Athens, Ga. - Former inhabitants of the Amazon Basin enriched their fields with charred organic materials-biochar-and transformed … More›
December 1, 2008
Athens, Ga. - Harry Gilbert, who has worked extensively on carbohydrate enzymes, focusing primarily on how these … More›
February 4, 2009
MOSCOW—Genomics, the indexing and use of a plant’s entire genetic “catalog,” may be the best tool currently … More›
February 3, 2009
Ellsworth County Extension and the Post Rock Extension District will be holding a Grain Sorghum Seminar Feb. … More›
February 1, 2009
CLEMSON — In a move to bring more crops into the biofuel mix, Clemson University is hosting … More›