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Union College Partners with EV Connect to Provide EV Charging for Faculty, Staff, and Students

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As electric vehicle adoption soars and students across the country return to in-person learning, Union College, seeks to have their nine new (mid-2019) dual port EV charging stations around campus continue to be utilized by faculty, staff and student EV drivers. It’s a good relationship. I think we’re a kind of forward-thinking institution.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. emissions for a century or more.

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Study associates long-term exposure to air pollution with increasing emphysema

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While previous studies have shown a clear connection of air pollutants with some heart and lung diseases, the new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) demonstrates an association between long-term exposure to all major air pollutants with an increase in emphysema seen on lung scans. 2019.10255.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. This means that in 2019 about 770 million people had no electricity, three-quarters of them in Africa.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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The IEEE Life Fellow is credited with working out how best to isolate parts of the power grid to prevent the entire grid from going down. Membership has allowed me to interact with people from all over the world, make connections, and network,” Vittal says. In 2019 he was named a regents professor, the highest faculty position.

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WM Motor aims to be China’s BEV for the masses

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One of the folks I interviewed was my old friend Freeman Shen, whom I met in the year 2000 or so when he was head of BorgWarner China. Now Freeman is putting those years of experience and connections to good use at WM Motor, an EV startup initially known as Weltmeister, Its Chinese name remains Weima. Big volume.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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He has held several leadership positions in IEEE including 2019. My leadership experience inside and outside of IEEE and my connections with multiple IEEE organizational units enables me to facilitate linking, partnering, and communicating across boundaries. He served as the 2018–2019 president of the.