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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. He spent his summer this year as a graduate research intern at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, in Atlanta.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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In 2018 she launched the fintech company and is currently its only employee. In addition, she is a visiting scholar at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University , in Greensboro. Because Georgia’s fee is the least expensive, she’s running the pilot program for the app in the Atlanta area. She left IBM in 2014.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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Study links air pollution to increased emergency department visits for heart and lung disease

Green Car Congress

New research by George Mason University found that exposure to certain air pollutants is linked to increased emergency department (ED) visits for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. cities including Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Dallas, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; St. nitrogen oxides) and secondary (e.g. Krall, Howard H. Chang, Lance A.

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Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

The EVEVA: Climate change and Al Gore’s influence Chapter Vice-President Al LePage, the executive director of an Oregon nonprofit trail organization, was jolted awake to the threat of climate change with the release of the UN's IPCC Climate Report in 2018. A former state transportation coordinator in Alaska, Loeb launched ‘rEV UP!’

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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But she didn’t know what subject she wanted to pursue until she began her undergraduate studies in physics at McMaster University , in Hamilton, Ont., While conducting research in optics for her doctorate at the University of Rochester , in New York, Strickland worked with French physicist Gérard Mourou , a laser pioneer and Nobel laureate.

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