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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1945 from Northwestern University , in Evanston, Ill.

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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

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Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 In an accompanying editorial in The Lancet , Dr. Bert Brunekreef, a professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and Dr. Barbara Hoffmann, a professor of the University of Düsseldorf in Germany, described the study as “ exemplary.”

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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. The researchers also mapped local emissions in 5,695 US cities, finding the highest emissions-related mortality rate in Baltimore, where 130 out of every 100,000 residents likely die in a given year due to long-term exposure to air pollution. related and ?2,000

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. After earning his Ph.D.,

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Campaign Begins

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Nothing has to be invented to produce a plug-in hybrid vehicle,” says Dr. Andrew Frank, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis and Director of the UCD Hybrid Electric Research Center. consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today.