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NASA selects four university teams for aviation projects; eliminating emissions and autonomy research

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NASA has selected four university-led teams for potential awards in the agency’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI) that will have them spend up to five years exploring novel ideas for improving aviation, including eliminating emissions and autonomy research in support of Advanced Air Mobility. Florida State University.

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Missouri S&T small modular reactor consortium funds two initiatives

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Missouri’s multi-university Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Research and Education Consortium , led by Missouri University of Science and Technology, has selected its first two research initiatives for funding. Muthanna Al-Dahhan, professor and chair of chemical and biochemical engineering at S&T.

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MU researchers developing sustainable plastic waste road pavement mixtures

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In partnership with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), researchers from the University of Missouri (MU) Mizzou Asphalt Pavement and Innovation Lab ( MAPIL ) recently created a real-world test road using recycled materials such as scrap tires and plastic waste along a portion of Interstate 155 in the Missouri Bootheel.

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Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

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The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US.

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Univ. of Missouri team progressing with convection battery; enabling rechargeable lithium-metal batteries

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Researchers at the University of Missouri led by Prof. The University of Missouri team is researching the convection battery as part of a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant that started in July of 2012. The Li / Support is the electrode made possible with the convection battery technology. Click to enlarge.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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Kroemer was professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara , when he died. Kroemer taught electrical engineering at the University of Colorado , Boulder, from 1968 to 1976 before joining UCSB , where he led the university’s semiconductor research program.

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Rare Surviving GM EV1 Waits For Savior At Missouri University

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Designed, engineered, and offered for lease in California and a few other locations from 1998 to 2003, the two-seat EV1 was likely the most.' The late and much lamented GM EV1 electric car is by now a mythical creature.

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