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The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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Geiger and Alberto Salvo, an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore, led the study—their second with São Paulo big data. The interdisciplinary team conducted a regression analysis of traffic, consumer behavior, aerosol particle size and meteorological data from January 2011 through May 2011.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a new method for the direct conversion of heat to electricity using a multiferroic alloy, Ni 45 Co 5 Mn 40 Sn 10 , which they had discovered earlier (Srivastava 2010). —Srivastava 2011. 2011), The Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity Using Multiferroic Alloys.

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JUNE 1, 2015

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. The project is one of more than a half-dozen grants Wetz has been working on during the last few years that total more than $2 million in funding.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Takaaki Maekawa, President of the Research Institute of Tsukuba Bio-tech (RITB) and Professor Emeritus at Tsukuba University near Tokyo, has confirmed receiving grant approval from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) to build one-acre sites to prove biofuels production and toxic remediation using algae.

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That report, the 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updated and expanded upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). —North Central Regional Sun Grant Center Director Vance Owens. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 12, 2012

Researchers at the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center ( NCERC ) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) have successfully produced ethanol from the cellulosic portion of the corn kernel. These steps were complemented by a research and development grant through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

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JULY 19, 2011

The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) and Virginia Clean Cities (VCC) at James Madison University (JMU) are requesting proposals from fleets in the southeastern US interested in converting eligible gasoline vehicles to run on propane autogas. The application deadline is Friday, 12 August 2011, at 5pm EDT.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

NARA is an alliance of researchers, educators and economists from universities, businesses, and non-governmental and governmental institutions dedicated to help create a sustainable residual woody biomass to biojet fuel and value added co-products industry in the Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana region.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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JULY 10, 2013

Under the agreement, 3M granted Reshine a license to US Patents 6,660,432, 6,964,828, 7,028,128, and 8,241,791 and all global equivalents including in Taiwan, Japan, China and Europe. In 2011, 3M granted Umicore a license to US patent 6,660,432 and global equivalents; the company had earlier licensed US 6,964,828, and US 7,078,128 to Umicore.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

In 2011, ZeaChem signed a binding multi-year joint development agreement with Procter & Gamble to accelerate development of ZeaChem’s product platform beyond C 2 for drop-in bio-based chemicals and other products. ZeaChem Inc., Earlier post. ).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

and Suzhou Automobile Research Institute at Tsinghua University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, in which the two parties have agreed to promote a cooperative effort regarding the research of future automotive technology. For years, Tsinghua University and Nissan have had a long partnership that has yielded great results.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The kick-off meeting of the MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and Systems was held at MIT on 28 July 2011 with important participation from industry and government agencies.

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He has been granted six patents. He was vice president of operations and planning for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and served as general chair of the 2011 Sections Congress in San Francisco. As director she provided academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

has been awarded a firm contract with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. The project is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2011. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the Hawai’i Electric Light Company to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2012

In December 2011, the first wireless charging station was installed at the UBC Building Operations site. The rotation of a magnet in the transmitting unit causes a second magnet in the receiving unit—which also experiences that rotating magnetic field to rotate in a synchronized manner.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

University of Iowa researchers have found that smoke resulting from spring agricultural land-clearing fires in Central America and transported across the Gulf of Mexico intensified tornado conditions already in process in the United States. —Pablo Saide.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Researchers from Clemson University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified a promising new binder material for lithium-ion battery electrodes that not only could boost energy storage, but also eliminate the use of toxic compounds now used to manufacture the components. 1 V vs. Li/Li +. Click to enlarge. 1209150.

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. Following World War II, he pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago.

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MAY 14, 2013

Researchers at the University of Missouri led by Prof. Galen Suppes say that they have further developed and validated the “convection battery” or “convection cell” technology originally announced in 2011 and 2012 ( earlier post ). Lower mass often translates to lower costs. Source: Dr. Galen Suppes. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified a small molecule surrogate for cellulose—?-cyclodextrin—in In May 2011, Dauenhauer was awarded a five-year, $800,000 Early Career Award in Basic Energy Sciences from the DOE. cyclodextrin—in high-temperature pyrolysis processes.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

million funding increase to an existing grant to ethanol producer POET. The grant increases will play a key role in establishing corn cobs as a viable commodity and setting the stage for corn cob harvesting across the United States, according to POET. Operations are scheduled to begin in late 2011. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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JUNE 2, 2010

ChargePoint America will provide 4,600 Level II (220 – 240 volts) public and private ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations by October 2011 to program participants in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Orlando, Fla.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC.

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While the National Transit Database reports a decline in the number of injuries from 2002-2011, severity continues to be an issue as demonstrated by the average 2.8% increase in casualty and liability expenses each year. —Jerry Spears.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

The research is part of the Materials Genome Initiative launched by President Barack Obama in 2011. This research was supported by the DOD-ONR (Grants No. N00014-09-1-0921) and the NSF (Grant No. —Hart et al. We’re looking at the properties of ‘expensium’ and trying to develop ‘cheapium’. —Stefano Curtarolo.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Purdue University will operate a new federally funded facility to test aircraft engines and develop alternative fuels. million grant from the US Air Force and will be housed in the Niswonger Aviation Technology Building at the Purdue Airport. The National Test Facility for Fuels and Propulsion is funded with a $1.35

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011 is the most sweeping reform of the US patent laws since 1952. In 2011 alone, 724 US patents issued that included the term “electric vehicle.” A second validity challenge proceeding created by the new law is “post grant review” (PGR). Perspective by David K.S. Cornwell and Richard D.

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JULY 30, 2010

The $37 million ChargePoint America program is made possible by a $15-million grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Transportation Electrification Initiative administered by the Department of Energy.

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MAY 24, 2010

The investment includes a grant received from the Department of Energy to help create green technology jobs in the US. Ford is adding a combined 170 jobs at the Rawsonville and Van Dyke facilities to build these key components. Ford will invest about $125 million at its Van Dyke facility.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Chrysler Group was selected for a US Department of Energy (DOE) grant of up to $48 million as part of a $2.4 More than 21 Chrysler Group partners across the US, including utility companies, government agencies and Universities will independently test the Ram PHEV and provide valuable data for the advancement of the technology.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Seth Lyman, now with Utah State University’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory, is lead author of a paper documenting the research published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Daniel Jaffe, a science and technology professor at University of Washington Bothell, is coauthor of the paper. Lyman & Daniel A.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Other silicon anode projects supported by the DOE includes those being done by Amprius, Angstrom Materials and NC State University. With support from the ARPA-E grant, Envia has demonstrated silicon-carbon nanocomposite anodes with very high capacity (1,530 mAh g- 1 ) and promising cycle life. 13/100,579, filed on 04 May 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Ford Motor Company Ltd (lead company), Jaguar Land Rover, Johnson Matthey Plc, ITM Power (Trading) Ltd, Revolve Technologies Ltd, Cambustion Ltd, University of Bradford, University of Liverpool, University of Birmingham.

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An active volunteer who held many high-level positions throughout the organization, Gowen was president of the IEEE Foundation from 2005 to 2011 and two years later was appointed as president emeritus of the IEEE Foundation. and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1957 from Rutgers University there.

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After earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 2009, she went on to earn a master’s degree in education in 2011 from Boston University. She began researching what skills and knowledge preuniversity students were missing that was preventing them from completing a university STEM program.

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