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Alcoa opens 3D printing metal powder plant

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The plant is part of a $60 million investment in advanced 3D printing materials and processes that builds on the Company’s 3D printing capabilities in California, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas. Alcoa is piloting the technique in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Earlier post.).

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Alcoa expands R&D Center to deepen additive manufacturing capabilities; Ampliforge process

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Alcoa is piloting the technique in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. The expansion of the Alcoa Technical Center builds on Alcoa’s additive manufacturing capabilities in California, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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More than 50 percent of pregnant people become anemic, according to the Cleveland Clinic , risking premature birth, low birth weight for the baby, and postpartum depression. His top choices are Cornell , Georgia Tech , the University of Michigan , and the University of Illinois because of the types of STEM programs they offer.

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

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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The program’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project oversees the work at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Langley Research Center in Virginia. The team leaders, projects, contract amounts and periods of performance are: Boeing Research & Technology, Huntington Beach, Calif., million, three years.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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Partners include BASF and University of Georgia. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) - Hybrid Chemical-Mechanical Separation & Upcycling of Mixed Plastic Waste – DOE Funding: $2,498,539. The University of Akron (Akron, OH) - Highly Recyclable Thermosets for Lightweight Composites – DOE Funding: $2,049,242.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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