The DOE Office of Science selects Sam Hazen for Early Career Research Award

TIMBR investigator Samuel P. Hazen of the UMass Biology Department has received a five-year, $750,000 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research grant to study what genetic mechanisms allow certain energy crops to produce more ethanol than others.

Hazen's grant from the DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research is one of 65 awarded from approximately 1,150 applications across the country.