The UD research team of Wilfred Chen, E. Terry Papoutsakis, Kevin Solomon and Yushan Yan will help drive research and workforce development initiatives focused on making manufacturing more sustainable through the new CURB Engineering Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing-Empowered Decarbonization (CURB) Engineering Research Center, led by Washington University in St. Louis, is funded by a five-year, $26 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The center will support convergent projects in research, education, commercialization, workforce development, and diversity and inclusion, and UD researchers will play a significant role in the effort.

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