The U.S. Department of Agriculture has devoted $5 million to educate teachers at Cornell on biofuels and bioenergy products, a Cornell press release said today. The project will train teachers from middle, high school, and college level to successfully teach the subject to their students.
Cornell is one of five participating campuses, along with the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Delaware State University, Ohio State University’s Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center and the Energy and Climate Center at Pace University Law School. Around 66 teachers will be trained each year, with ten becoming certified trainers to then teach more teachers (say that ten times fast).
The project is one of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s efforts to develop biofuels and sustainable products.
