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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

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Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership.

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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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parking and lane access incentives, building codes), utility actions (e.g., The authors defined regions as the Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, and West, based on the US Census (2016). The assessment includes promotion actions by state policy (e.g., regulation, purchasing incentives), local policy (e.g., —Kwan et al.

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Imagineer Morgan Pope Uses Electromagnetism to Spark Emotions

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He helped build the mechanical superhero Spider-Man, a stunt-double animatronic, or stuntronic , that makes death-defying leaps off buildings and over the heads of audiences at Disneyland’s Avengers Campus. In college, he discovered his passion for building things. in the same field in 2016.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

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Beneath then-CEO Mike Jackson, AutoNation in 2016 revived the AutoNation USA emblem, years nearest Jackson had closed lots of the team’s used-only retail outlets. Past the Albuquerque, Austin and Colorado Springs places, AutoNation USA has shops in Phoenix and Avondale, Ariz. Louis; Henderson, Nev.; Charlotte, N.C.;

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7 finalists announced for USDOT Smart City Challenge; Amazon Web Services new partner

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The finalists are: Austin, TX; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Kansas City, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; and San Francisco, CA. The credits, support, and collaboration will help the winning city design and build a Smart City on the AWS Cloud. The winning city will be announced in June 2016.

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NSF awarding $81M to 16 sites for new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

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The NNCI framework builds on the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), which enabled major discoveries, innovations, and contributions to education and commerce for more than 10 years. Through a fiscal year 2016 competition, one of the newly awarded sites will be chosen to coordinate the facilities.

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Researchers determine specific rates of biodegradation for 125 petroleum compounds in Deepwater Horizon spill

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Lead author Sarah Bagby, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral scientist in the Valentine Lab at UCSB, combed through the massive data set to build a chemical fingerprint of Macondo oil based on its biomarker compounds. Their results appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Bagby, Christopher M. 1610110114.

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