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DOE awards $875k Early Career Research Award to UMD professor; advancing alternative fuels research

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University of Maryland Chemistry and Biochemistry Assistant Professor Leah Dodson received a 2023 Early Career Research Award from the US Department of Energy (DOE). The highly competitive five-year grant, awarded through the DOE’s Gas Phase Chemical Physics program, recognizes rising stars in science.

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Colorado approves goal to make 82% of car sales electric by 2032

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Instead of prohibiting gas car sales, the state says it hopes to direct consumers toward some of its grants and other programs making EVs easier to access. The Community Accelerated Mobility Program, which provides grants to support community-led electric mobility projects.

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The Boring Company’s updated projects page no longer lists D.C.-Baltimore tunnel

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-Baltimore tunnels were first outlined in 2017, and it even received some notable support from Maryland Gov. A conditional permit for the initiative was later granted by state officials. The state also aided The Boring Company in submitting a draft environmental assessment to the highway administration, which was released in 2019.

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Codeveloper of NASA’s Newest Lunar Retroreflector Dies at 78

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Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department. of Ontario, Canada.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. In 2019 he joined the University of Twente , in Enschede, Netherlands, as a professor of electrical engineering. He was granted 15 patents. He also guided the development of thin-film disk drives, according to his biography on the Engineering and Tech History Wiki. patents during his time at IBM.

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Tesla Model Y from Giga Texas is just one EPA approval away from first deliveries

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Once Tesla is granted a Certificate of Conformity for Model Ys that are set to be produced at Gigafactory Texas, the automaker will be able to deliver the vehicles to customers. Tesla submitted the application on December 13, 2019 , with the Model Y gaining its Certificate of Conformity about a month later on January 8.

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