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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. Before, I had no idea that college professors did something called research.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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The summit kicked off on 4 May at the Georgia Aquarium with a reception and panel discussion on climate change and sustainability, moderated by Saifur Rahman , IEEE president and CEO. Garcia is CEO of Urban Climate Nexus in Atlanta. cities in creating and executing climate action and resilience plans. UCN assists U.S.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The MIT will develop a new generation of power electronics based on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) superjunction diodes and transistors that can vastly exceed the performance of today’s GaN power devices. The system takes three main inputs: ambient air, water, and a sustainable energy source, and produces butanol with high selectivity.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. for climate control in automobiles. heating and water purification. . $3,734,939. Chromatin, Inc. converted into a type of diesel fuel.

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