DOE-funded MSIs to Receive $1M for Bioenergy Research (features UNM)

Three projects have been selected for funding under a DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) interagency agreement with the Minority Serving Institution STEM R&D Consortium (MSRDC). DOE has leveraged the partnership to reduce barriers to entry for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and increase research partnerships.

MSRDC is a nonprofit member group of over 70 MSIs formed under a cooperative agreement by the US Army in 2014. Through its partnership with MSRDC, BETO has broadened its pool of participants and funded non-traditional, emerging, and historically underfunded investigators from MSIs at $1 million in Fiscal Year 2022.

The project representing the EPSCoR jurisdictions is:

University of NEW MEXICO: For developing a novel catalytic approach for upgrading biomass derived ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel in order to show how novel single atom catalysts can be leveraged to overcome catalyst deactivation challenges.