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DOE Lab, partners find high concentrations of rare earth elements in American coal basins

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has found high rare earth element (REE) concentrations in coal samples taken from the Illinois, Northern Appalachian, Central Appalachian, Rocky Mountain Coal Basins, and the Pennsylvania Anthracite region. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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DOE to award $15.8M to 30 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies projects

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Selections were made under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) annual funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in 2017. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut. Northwestern University. Northeastern University. University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Energy researchers: clean US hydrogen economy is within reach, but needs a game plan

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The authors are: Arun Majumdar, a Jay Precourt Professor and Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University and lead author of the commentary. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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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 left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg.

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NYU Researchers Paving New Path for Robotics

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These researchers were recruited to NYU Tandon as part of a “cluster hire” over two years from 2017-2019 to anchor Tandon Dean Jelena Kova?evi?’s It was also very important for me to be at a university that has a strong connection between engineering and medicine. Creating a shared physical hub leads to a convolution of what we do.