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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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Cepsa to invest €3B in Andalusia to build the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe; additional €2B for renewable power

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The company will work on training new job skills through its own training centers at its Energy Parks, as well as through its partnerships with different universities in the area. Andalusia has world-class port infrastructure, connected to the main ports of Europe and the world.

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Univ. of Michigan receives grant from Alcoa Foundation for sustainable transportation research in Detroit, Beijing

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The University of Michigan will receive a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation to support U-M’s Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation ( SMART ) project. The grant will be used to develop and apply practical solutions to the challenges of sustainable transportation in the Detroit and Beijing regions.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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As at the previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated. Deep Robotics ] NAVER LABS is conducting joint research on “Natural Robot Motion Generation” with Professor Choi Sung-joon and his team at Korea University Robot Intelligence Lab.

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EU Awards €1.6M Contract to Novozymes to Support Development of Cellulosic Ethanol from Sugarcane Bagasse

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Sugarcane is already used to make bioethanol in Brazil, but the residue material from the crushed sugarcane (bagasse) has so far only been used for generating steam for heating or distillation internally in the sugar production. Last year Brazil produced 6 billion gallons (about 23 billion liters) of bioethanol from sugarcane.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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A lifelong career at the DLR Moreira earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica , in São José dos Campos, Brazil, in 1984 and 1986. in engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Moreira earned his Ph.D. He received the IEEE Dennis J.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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Explaining how blockchain and aerodynamics work One of the winners was IEEE Member Carolyn Sher-DeCusatis , who teaches software engineering at Western Governors University , in Salt Lake City. I see Riko-chan as a powerful motivator,” says Baptista, a full-stack developer based in Brazil. “I