Learn more about the Five OSU graduate students that were awarded 2026 South Central Sun Grant Spring Graduate Research Fellowship that is supported through funding from USDA NIFA.
The South Central Sun Grant Center at Oklahoma State University announced six new USDA-NIFA-funded research projects advancing bioenergy, sustainable materials, biobased products and workforce development across the South Central region.
U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) through South Central Region (SCR) Sun Grant Program awards grants up to $2.05 million for six 3-year regional projects that aimed at developing viable alternative biobased energy sources and products while enhancing economic opportunities in rural areas.
The project aims is to develop a novel C. carboxidivorans based platform coupled with compatible process technology for producing butanol from switchgrass and fermentation gas.
The logistics challenge of using biomass feedstocks is huge with vast quantities of feedstock moved, stored and processed plus the need to accommodate production variation.
Winter canola is a potential bioenergy crop for the southern Great Plains (SGP) as acres planted in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado have increased to record levels in recent years.
