$250,000 Duke Energy grant to help power N.C. Research Campus lab

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College will use a $250,000 grant from Duke Energy to help equip a cutting-edge biotechnology facility at the N.C. Research Campus.

The grant will purchase equipment for a laboratory and prep rooms in the college's future building in Kannapolis. Called an aseptic bioprocessing suite, the lab and related areas will replicate the sophisticated environments found in biotech industries.

Construction of the 60,000-square-foot building has been on hold since the economy soured. College officials and campus developer Castle & Cooke North Carolina still hope to break ground on the project this calendar year, however.

For details, see the Salisbury Post report.