University Times

Pitt-Bradford’s Energy Institute will receive $238,000 through the Omnibus Appropriations Act. The appropriation will support the launch of the Energy Institute’s economic development component and enhance its current workforce development activities.

Pitt-Bradford established the Energy Institute last year in cooperation with the region’s energy industry to train workers, support the energy industry in establishing and improving operating processes and stimulate thinking throughout the region about renewable energy.

UPB President Livingston Alexander said, “An important aim of the institute is to work closely with industrial leaders to address current and future workforce development needs in traditional and newer forms of energy. The grant will enable us to do precisely that, while also helping us to develop a curriculum that prepares students to deal with energy challenges of the future. Our vast service area contains huge reservoirs of oil and gas, including the enormous new reservoir of untapped natural gas in the Marcellus Shale.”