Energy Company Gives $500-Million Research Grant to Universities

The international energy company BP has chosen the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to share a $500-million grant for research on the development of alternative energy sources, with a special focus on biofuels.

The grant will create the Energy Biosciences Institute, which California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, said would be the largest institute in the world dedicated to creating

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