[ North Carolina ] The Department of Forest at North Carolina State University will receive a grant worth $247,802 from the federal government for research into renewable energy and other products that can be developed from woody biomass. The grant is one of 26 awarded by the Agriculture Department on Tuesday. The grants total $6.2 million. The program is designed to help develop use of woody biomass from national forests.

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