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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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Red Line Westlake Rail Wayside Energy Storage System: Install wayside energy storage substation (WESS) at Westlake passenger station is at-grade level on the high-speed heavy rail subway Red Line. Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000.

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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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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. transferred into highly productive energy crops such as. University of Illinois. Engineering Hydrocarbon Biosynthesis and Storage Together. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corp.

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