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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Samsung is planning a $17 billion fab near Austin , Texas, and in September Intel broke ground on the first of two massive new facilities worth $20 billion in central Ohio. economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make?

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Quantum Information Edge alliance launches to accelerate quantum computing R&D

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A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched in December to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve urgent scientific challenges and maintain US leadership in next-generation information technology.

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NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

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The CISTAR team will develop innovative process designs for economic production of liquid chemicals and transportation fuels from shale gas hydrocarbons. Research will also occur at all of the universities involved. Inform the public about safe and environmentally responsible ways to use U.S. hydrocarbon resources.

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Heliostat Consortium announces 7 projects to receive combined $3.5M in funding; DOE launches Heliostat Prize

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million in funding are: SunRing: Advanced Manufacturing and Field Deployment: This project by Solar Dynamics LLC and partners will develop processes to maximize cost-competitiveness, performance, and reliability of Solar Dynamics’ existing SunRing heliostat design. DOE launches new prize to advance heliostat technologies.

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DOE awarding $22 million for algal fuel and biomass feedstock supply chain projects

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New Mexico State University ($5 million DOE investment): For its project, New Mexico State University will increase the yield of a microalgae, while developing harvesting and cultivation processes that lower costs and support year-round production. California Polytechnic State University ($1.5

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. Design tools will be used to create optimal system-level and subsystem-level designs.

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DOE to award up to $8M to three algae-based biofuels projects

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In partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, University of California at San Diego – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the J. Pond ecology has a major impact on algal health and productivity, yet very little is known about the impacts of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi. Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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