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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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

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It makes sure you have the opportunity, resources, and network to thrive and succeed.” One is a professional-to-student mentoring program that partners people from industry and academia with students to build working relationships between the two as well as provide career, technical, and personal advice.

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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Barrett says that a person who dies from an air pollution-related cause typically dies about a decade earlier than he or she otherwise might have. Pollution from industrial activities was highest in the Midwest, roughly between Chicago and Detroit, as well as around Philadelphia, Atlanta and Los Angeles. —Caiazzo et al.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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IEEE: A trustworthy resource and global community Zakrzewska joined IEEE in 2010 while a Ph.D. She is set to receive the Hissey Award on 5 May at the 2023 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony , to be held at the Hilton Atlanta. student at the Technical University of Denmark.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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The task of vaccines is to present antigens that will trigger this immune response without making the person sick. This daunting task is managed by centers in London, Tokyo, and Beijing; Atlanta and Memphis in the United States; Melbourne, Australia; and Koltsovo, Russia. Chris Philpot. RAISING THE ALARM. Then Omicron hit.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). In the U.S.

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