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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. New York, N.Y. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Arlington, Texas Ionic liquids as novel lubricant additives for HVAC compressors for enhanced efficiency and durability, $150,000 Ingersoll Rand, Bloomington, Minn.

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DOE FCTO selects 11 fuel cell incubator projects for up to $10M in awards; exploring alkaline exchange membrane FCs

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Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine. University of Delaware. Develop a new class of anion exchange membranes with high oxidative-stability for use in cerium redox-flow batteries and with potential for use in fuel cell applications. University of New Mexico. Giner, Inc. Slade, R.C.T

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. He joined UTA—then known as Arlington State College—in 1962 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Columbia University , New York, N.Y. The project team will determine whether fewer points in a surface seismic array, collected more frequently, along with new and existing software will allow them to develop a more accurate CO 2 reservoir modeling package. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Kahn Current job: Chairman, CEO, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) Date of birth: 23 December 1938 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Family: Patrice Ann Lyons, his wife Education: BEE 1960, City College of New York ; M.A. 1962 and Ph.D. thesis involved signal processing.

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GM workers at Flint factory voted against new UAW contract

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While GM is scheduled to continue holding votes on the contracts with additional local chapters, the news highlights the fact that the contracts are not yet a done deal — even following the costly strikes and lengthy negotiation period. University of Michigan professor Erik Gordon thinks chances are low for GM to go much higher.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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Arlington, Va.) Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.) Clemson University researchers will evaluate the feasibility of using wellbore deformations to assess reservoir, caprock, and wellbore conditions. Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.)

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