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Another main goal of the collaborative is to provide curricular growth, community service and educational opportunities. The refinery and quality testing laboratory will provide a sustainable funding stream to support student research and learning experiences from several disciplines across the Keene State College campus. Keene State College currently has an active research program in occupational and environmental exposure assessment for petroleum diesel and biodiesel. This collaborative venture will support expansion of this program, and KSC’s research collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to include engine emissions characterization and more specialized analyses of the gaseous and particulate phase toxins in petroleum and biodiesel fuel emissions. In addition, the collaborative will provide KSC researchers with access to a highly characterized quality fuel product for future emissions analyses. The research and educational opportunities will extend far beyond KSC’s current capacity. However, it is anticipated that as many as 50 students per year will actively engage with faculty and staff from across the campus in learning experiences in areas such as: journalism and communication, education, refinery processing, chemistry, environmental science, business management, green business practices, occupational and environmental health and ecology, and public policy engagement.