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DOT awarding up to $435M for 34 University Transportation Centers

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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). Consortium members: Arizona State University, Blinn Community College (TX), Michigan State University, Rutgers University and Texas A&M University. $4

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. and its environs. Thirty-five students and several faculty members from the Ohio State University engineering college , in Columbus, designed an environmentally friendly solution.

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Study finds wind concentrates pollutants with unexpected order in an urban environment

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A new study has found that pollutant particles carried by these flows prefer to accumulate in specific regions of the urban environment and even form coherent structures, rather than scattering randomly. It was not known if such structures were robust enough to manifest in the environment.

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Bridgestone awarded $35M USDA Climate-Smart Grant to advance guayule natural rubber production

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Joining Bridgestone, additional partners in the $35-million guayule climate-smart grant include the University of Arizona, Colorado State University, OpenET, Environmental Defense Fund, Tohono O’odham Nation and Colorado River Indian Tribes, and eight regional growers.

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Correction: Univ. of Arizona, Univ. of Queensland, & Others Beat Stanford To 100% Clean, Renewable Electricity

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I recently wrote about Stanford University’s commitment to go 100% renewable when it comes to electricity. The university claimed to be the “first research university to use 100% renewable electricity.” ” Being a research university, I assumed that Stanford had done its research.

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FHWA makes BAA awards for Phase 1 Truck Platooning Early Deployment Assessment

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This project is being conducted to understand how truck platoons will operate in a realistic, operational environment. Previous research has resulted in the development of truck platooning technology with only limited testing and demonstration in a real-world environment. Proposed Platooning Location: California; Arizona.

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LLNL-led team to use microorganisms to separate and purify rare-earth elements; biomining

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Rare earths bearing core sample drilled at La Paz, Arizona. To date, the chemical processes required to extract and purify REEs have been complex and harmful to the environment. REEs are a set of 17 elements in the periodic table that includes the 15 lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium.

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