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

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. San Jose, Calif. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif.

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US DOE announces 3 consortia for $125M US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center; solar, second-generation biofuels and buildings

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These consortia—led in theUS by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Florida, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)—will bring together experts from national laboratories, universities, and industry in both the US and India. MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc.

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BMW i Ventures makes strategic investment in electric bus company Proterra; part of $55M round

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Generation Investment Management LLP, a long-term, sustainability focused investment firm led the round, which was joined by BMW i Ventures, the corporate venture capital team founded by BMW Group in 2011. The company recently launched of the industry’s first autonomous bus development program with the University of Nevada, Reno.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. After AT&T, he helped companies develop chips for 3G and Wi-Fi at Cadence Design Systems , in San Jose, Calif. About Siavash Alamouti.

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Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. Our EAASV group had a tour of the Lightning facility in San Jose and a field trip to the company’s new location in Hollister a couple of years ago,” Pohorsky said. “If so I’m in the movie.”

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates in San Jose, Calif., University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. Grosz was also an adjunct engineering professor at Tulane University , also in New Orleans, for two years. Life Fellow Thomas M. Nominated by Petition.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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In collaboration with the Department of Defense, the newest manufacturing institute will focus on building US leadership in smart collaborative robotics, where advanced robots work alongside humans seamlessly, safely, and intuitively to do the heavy lifting on an assembly line or handle with precision, intricate or dangerous tasks.