A portion of the gift, $3.5 million, will also help the campus with matching funds that leverage the $265 million, 10-year bioenergy grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to WEI. WARF’s gift helps the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), which is housed at WEI and led by UW–Madison in close partnership with Michigan State University. GLBRC supports researchers from multiple institutions studying the sustainable production of transportation fuels and chemicals from non-food plant biomass.