North Central Regional Sun Grant Center
The North Central Regional Sun Grant Center is located at South Dakota State University in Brookings. The Center consists of 10 states: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
We are one of five regional Sun Grant Centers within the Sun Grant Initiative, which was authorized in the 2002, 2008, 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills. All regions are working together to further establish a bio-based economy through our national network of land-grant universities and federally-funded laboratories. The five Sun Grant Centers each use their unique regional resources to meet the common goal of developing bio-based alternatives and providing educational programs on America's energy demands while offering economic opportunities for rural areas.
The North Central Sun Grant Center manages a portfolio of projects focusing on biorenewable energy and products. Funding for these projects comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation and Department of Defense.
The Sun Grant Initiative is a national network of partnered land-grant universities working to fully realize and advance a rural-centric bio-based economy. This network is organized into five biogeographical regions, each with a lead Sun Grant Center to facilitate the development of regional biomass-to-bioproducts research.
Our center supports competitive research projects awarded by the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center using resources from the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Transportation and Department of Agriculture.
This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through the Sun Grant Initiative.
U.S. Department of Energy Logistics
This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office under award No. DE-FG36-08GO88073.
U.S. Department of Energy Regional Feedstock Partnership
This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office under award No. DE-FC36-05GO85041.
U.S. Department of Defense
Research was sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement No. W911NF-08-2-0024. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Laboratory or the U.S. government. The U.S. government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation herein.
U.S. Department of Transportation
This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, Grant No. DTOS59-07-G-00054.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under award No. 2010-38502-21861.
- This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under award No. 2013-38502-21424.
- This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under award No. 2014-38502-22598.
