Bioremediation, Education, Science and Technology, (BEST) Research Program
The BEST Center addresses the issues relating to cleaning up the hazardous waste sites involving federal agencies. Innovative remedial technologies are used which can substantially reduce the costs of current "burn or bury" remediation approaches. Biotechnology and bioengineering waste management strategies could allow restoration of hazardous sites at much lower cost and environmental trauma.
The goals of the BEST Center are: (1) to become an established national resource for multi-disciplinary research and education in the bioremediation sciences; (2) to provide undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate cross-disciplinary programs in the application of biosciences and engineering to waste management and bioremediation; (3) to act as a magnet bioremediation education and training center serving national minority alliances and consortia; and (4) to act as an incubator to nurture minority and women students and faculty in the development of research programs in bioremediation sciences and bioengineering at their home institutions.
