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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Dr. Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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University of California adopts full open access policy for research papers system-wide

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The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the UC will be made available to the public at no charge. It follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called “green” open access policies.

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Study finds coal trains add significant amount of PM2.5 pollution in urban areas

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Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. Resources Cite this article Ostro, B.,

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Study of 7 years of production data supports billion-ton biofuels feedstock estimate

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Now, a new analysis of up to seven years of production data gathered through the Regional Feedstock Partnership, established by DOE and the Sun Grant Initiative, supports the billon-ton estimate. —North Central Regional Sun Grant Center Director Vance Owens. That amount could be available annually by 2030. Click to enlarge.

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Uno Minda appoints Vivek Jindal as Director, and A.G Giridharan as CEO-SCS domain – ET Auto

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He has completed his engineering from IIT Delhi, MBA from Katz Graduate School of Business (University of Pittsburgh – USA) and Executive MBA program (PLD) from Harvard Business School. The Board of Directors has also granted approval to make (in addition to its existing investment) an investment approximately of INR 2.27

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U Texas at Austin researchers rewire yeast for high lipid generation; 60x improvement over parent strains

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). Ingram, director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida. Biodiesel Biotech'

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. He was granted 15 patents. patents during his time at IBM.

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