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MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

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The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Other recipients of the spring 2014 MITEI seed grants are: Assessment of technologies at different scales to monetize natural gas under uncertain and dynamic conditions; Paul Barton, chemical engineering.

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3 MIT-led teams win DOE NEUP funding for next-gen nuclear technologies

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Three MIT-led research teams have won awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs ( NEUP ) initiative to support research and development on the next generation of nuclear technologies. Five IRP awards and 44 Research and Development awards were announced for fiscal year 2014. Seawater uranium.

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Liquid metal battery company Ambri raises $35M in Series C

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In a 2014 progress report , Ambri noted it has operated more than 1,000 cells in the lab and demonstrated that the cells can run for more than 1,000 cycles at full depth of discharge with negligible fade rate (less than 0.0002% per cycle). The whole device is kept at a high temperature, around 700 °C, so that the layers remain molten.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was the 2014–2015 chair of the IEEE Seoul Section. He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S. Markus Zahn Professor emeritus at MIT Life Fellow, 75; died 13 March Zahn was a professor of electrical engineering for 50 years. Zahn, who was granted more than 20 U.S. in EE in 1990 from Stanford.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. in 1952 in solid-state physics, he joined MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory , in Lexington, Mass., His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At patent , shortly before his 100th birthday. After Goodenough earned a Ph.D. as a researcher.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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STEM at the root Ganguly says she was inspired to help reform STEM education when she was a graduate student at MIT. 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. The startup received grants from the U.S. million.

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RPI researchers develop safe, long-cycling Li-metal rechargeable battery electrode; demonstrate Li-carbon battery

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Koratkar’s graduate student and first author of the paper, Mukherjee, was a finalist in the 2014 MIT-Lemelson National Collegiate Student Prize Competition in the graduate student category and presented his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month. Rahul Mukherjee, Abhay V.

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