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Sun Grant Association

regional centers of the US federal Sun Grant Initiative

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7638697 ↗
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The Sun Grant Association is a consortium of Land-Grant universities in the United States that serve as regional centers for the Sun Grant Initiative. As laid out in the Sun Grant Research Initiative Act of 2003, the purpose of the program is to provide qualifying universities with federal funding for the research and development of renewable bio-based energy and technology, with the goals of enhancing U.S. energy independence, promoting the diversity and environmental sustainability of U.S. agricultural production, and addressing the issue of climate change. The federal departments of Agriculture, Energy, and Transportation are partners in the program. The initiative was initially authorized in the 2002 Farm Bill, and has been repeatedly renewed by subsequent farm bills. The Sun Grant program, along with the Sea and Space Grant programs, make up the three national grant programs based on the original concept of Land-Grant universities.

Sun-grant universities

The following six universities house a regional center or subcenter.

South Dakota State University – North Central Regional Center, composed of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

University of Tennessee – Southeastern Regional Center, composed of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.

Oklahoma State University – South Central Regional Center, composed of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Oregon State University – Western Regional Center, composed of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the freely associated states.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sun Grant Association” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.