April 13, 2007

Berkeley Professors Seek Voice in Research-Institute Deal With Energy Company

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Faculty members at the University of California at Berkeley are pressing for more say over the contract terms of a planned $500-million research institute on biofuels to be financed by the energy giant BP. They also want continued faculty oversight of the venture during its expected 10-year life span.

The demands for more of a voice in the venture, the Energy Biosciences Institute, have been building since early February, when BP announced that Berkeley, along with the Lawrence

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