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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Universities and community colleges are revamping their semiconductor-related curricula and forging strategic partnerships with one another and with industry to train the staff needed to run U.S. Intel arrives at Ohio State Ohio State University is using its chip-fabrication facility to train future engineers and technicians.

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Video Friday: LASSIE On the Moon

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USC, UPenn, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Temple University, and NASA Johnson Space Center are teaching dog-like robots to navigate craters of the moon and other challenging planetary surfaces in research funded by NASA. [ Also, if you are a robot vacuum owner, please please remember to clean the poor thing out from time to time.

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Study finds truck fleet clean-up significantly decreases engine emissions near Port of Oakland

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Between 2009 and 2013, California's Drayage Truck Regulation led to near-universal use of DPFs (diesel particulate filters) on Port trucks. Dr. Harley will elaborate on these results during an ARB-hosted research seminar and webcast open to the public at 1:30 pm (PDT) on Thursday, 18 June. 09-340.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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Austin and San Antonio region; and hold training seminars regarding multifamily housing and workplace electric vehicle charging. Clean Energy. Clean Fuels Ohio. Region Clean Cities. Clean Cities. The I-40 Collaboration of Clean Cities, a partnership across Arkansas and. University, North. 500,000.

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DOE to award $9M to promote consensus on future fossil energy technologies

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The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) anticipates two awards being made: the first for $7 million in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and fossil-fuel-based Clean Energy Systems (CES); the second for $2 million in the area of international oil and natural gas. Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Energy Systems.

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Video Friday: Robotics After Hours

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YouTube ] The Apellix Opus X8 Softwash (SW) system cleaning the University of Florida Shands Hospital building in Jacksonville, Florida. NASA ] This GRASP on Robotics talk is by Ankur Mehta at the University of California, on "Towards $1 Robots." [ Energy Robotics ] The "new" ASIMO was announced in November of 2011. CMU RI ].

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Ashida River Stream-side Learning Hut: an Ashida River clean-up project. Effective utilization of bamboo plants flourishing in the forests near populated areas, with the goal of realizing a local recycling-based society based on bamboo.

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