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JANUARY 20, 2013

A new Chicago-based research center using advanced computational methods to understand the rapid growth of cities will receive a $500,000 grant from the John D. A starting point for UrbanCCD research will be hundreds of data sets published by the City of Chicago Data Portal, an initiative dedicated to open government data.

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JULY 27, 2022

Jack Dongarra ’s dream job growing up was to teach science at a public high school in Chicago. “I After he graduated high school, there was only one university he wanted to attend: Chicago State. Chicago State accepted his application, and he decided to major in mathematics. He had found his passion. “I

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. University of California, Merced, Calif. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. DOE award: $298,191).

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Credit: The University of Hong Kong. The largest greening BUAs are Pearl River Delta (PRD), Tokyo, Yangtze River Delta (YRD), Miami, Beijing, Chicago, Seoul, Tianjin, São Paulo, and Osaka. By 2050, the global population is expected to soar to 9.7 billion, with 68% of the population living in urban areas.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

A new University of Michigan study compares the cost of ownership for EVs and internal-combustion vehicles across 14 U.S. But the cheapest cities for EVs were Atlanta, Chicago, and Cleveland, while the cheapest cities for gasoline cars were Houston and Dallas.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

This 6-minute documentary, about the restoration of a 1758 grand orrery —so called because it includes the outer planets—is worth watching because it shows the internal gears and clockwork mechanisms: A predecessor to the orrery was the armillary sphere , which featured a ball representing Earth at its center and stars rotating around it.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

An international group of physicists led by the University of Arkansas has created an artificial graphene-like structure with transition metal atoms in place of carbon atoms. Freeland and Phillip Ryan of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected a consortium led by Northwestern University to establish a new NIST-sponsored center of excellence for advanced materials research. Courtesy Northwestern University. Computer model of crack growth in a part from a helicopter rotor. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The NNCI sites will provide researchers from academia, government, and companies large and small with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE. Akhtar originally wanted to work with people with amputations as a physician. and a Ph.D.

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JULY 14, 2022

IEEE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AWARD Sponsors: the IEEE Circuits and Systems , Engineering in Medicine and Biology , and Signal Processing societies NIRMALA (NIMMI) RAMANUJAM Duke University Durham, N.C. For more globally accessible technology for women's health related to cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.” IEEE JAMES L. IEEE ANDREW S.

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MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. —Bishop et al. In their study, Bishop et al. In their study, Bishop et al.

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MARCH 29, 2022

While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. Behnke spent his entire career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1945 from Northwestern University , in Evanston, Ill.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Among 2016 INCITE award recipients: Martin Berzins of the University of Utah received 351 million core hours to study ultra super critical coal boilers, leading to improved efficiency and new designs for safer next-generation coal boilers. Applications for time through the INCITE program once again greatly exceeded the numbers of awards.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Children living in polluted megacities are at increased risk for brain inflammation and neurodegenerative changes, including Alzheimer or Parkinson’s disease, according to a study led by University of Montana Professor Dr. Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas and her colleagues.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Iowa State University (ISU) researchers have developed technologies to efficiently produce, recover and separate sugars from the fast pyrolysis of biomass. Brown and Iowa State researchers are presenting present their ideas and findings during tcbiomass2011 , the International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science in Chicago.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. reciprocating and gas- turbine internal-combustion engines) are widely recognized.

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MARCH 15, 2010

The large silicon volume changes on lithium ion insertion and extraction—which can cause structural problems leading to rapid capacity loss—are accommodated by the particle’s internal porosity. The internal channels in the silicon-carbon spheres serve two purposes. Source: Magasinki et al. Supplementary materials. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Participants in the project include Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Michigan Technological University. GTI Biorenewables: Vision, Challenges, Programs, and Status (presentation Chicago Chapter AIChE 15 September 2009). CRI/Criterion Inc., from Biomass (BIOMASS 2010).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some short distance plane routes have already been cancelled, and train travel from Beijing to Shanghai (roughly equivalent to New York to Chicago) has been cut from 11 hours to 4 hours. Last month, the Tianhe-1A, developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, became the world’s fastest supercomputer.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In response to federal policies to boost gas mileage, manufacturers have changed vehicle weights, improved tire-rolling resistance and added aerodynamic features to push fuel-economy rates past government-mandated thresholds. Likewise, vehicles getting less than 18 mpg are taxed up to $4,000.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

of Chicago. Over his long career, he studied the spectra of 50 elements, establishing international standards for measurement. in archaeology from Columbia University in 1952 with a dissertation focusing on Marajó Island, Brazil. Just four years later, Excelsior Supply Co. In 1922, Meggers. Kiess and F.J. She earned her Ph.D.

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JUNE 17, 2010

A team of chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a noncatalytic hydrothermolysis approach to release hydrogen from ammonia borane (AB)—a promising hydrogen storage material containing 19.6 Research findings were also presented 15 June during the International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering in Philadelphia.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

“A lot of people were confused by the point-contact transistor,” says Thomas Misa, former director of the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Science and Technology, at the University of Minnesota. Nevertheless, and with the benefit of 75 years of semiconductor theory, here we go. TRANSISTOR MUSEUM JERRY HERZOG ORAL HISTORY.

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From 1979 to 1982 he was a senior researcher at NTT Basic Research Labs and was promoted in 1982 to senior staff engineer of the company’s personnel and international affairs. He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Their suggestions included, yes, yoga rooms (at San Francisco International Airport, Chicago Midway International Airport, and Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, among others) but also short-story dispensers, tranquil gardens, even a swimming pool. But he found the cheese to be “pretty remarkable,” he said.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D. Bob had that.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Fission in uranium was discovered in 1938, in Germany, and it was only four years until the first nuclear “pile” was constructed in Chicago, in 1942. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. There are currently about. Among those interested parties is NASA.

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APRIL 16, 2024

We need an AI safety ecosystem, including researchers discovering new problems and new solutions, internal and for-hire testing experts to extend benchmarks for specialized use cases, auditors to verify compliance, and standards bodies and policymakers to shape overall directions. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Exide Technologies with Axion Power International. Honeywell International Inc. Manufacturing: Elkhart County, IN; Deployment: Portland, Chicago, and Sacramento. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Bristol, TN Columbus, GA.

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MAY 19, 2024

Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. These apps are “providing a service that doesn’t exist,” says Colin Depp , a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

But when you pop the Lightning’s hood, you find the internal combustion engine has gone missing. The EV Transition Explained This is the first in a series of articles presenting just some of the technological and social challenges in moving from vehicles with internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. In its place is a.

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MARCH 18, 2013

SMART is evolving a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, international collaborative research network linking elements related to the five areas of special focus and its on-the ground projects. Of 9 reports from the TEF project, four deal with reducing transportation demand.

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APRIL 21, 2009

A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies www.hevt.com Chicago, IL converts Ford F-150 pickup trucks. Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. Well be providing more information about this in the coming months.

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It started out as a means of running Amazon’s own platform and has since grown into a company that offers similar services to other companies and even university researchers. This would be an advantage for international consumers who wanted to avoid exchange-rate risk. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, released a report assessing and comparing the fuel efficiency of airlines serving the US domestic market in 2010. Zeinali et al. Click to enlarge. It employs a new methodology, developed by a team of researchers (Zou et al. )

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