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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Buskey, Ph.D.

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New solid polymer electrolyte outperforms Nafion; novel polymer folding

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Researchers, led by a team from the University of Pennsylvania, have used a polymer-folding mechanism to develop a new and versatile kind of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) that currently offers proton conductivity faster than Nafion by a factor of 2, the benchmark for fuel cell membranes. They collaborated with Kenneth B. Wagener, George B.

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DOE awards $10.6M to ROGUE to engineer energycane, Miscanthus to produce oil for biodiesel, biojet fuel

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6-million, million, five-year grant to transform two of the most productive crops in the US into sustainable sources of biodiesel and biojet fuel. Energycane will be evaluated at Florida and Mississippi, and Miscanthus will be tested at Illinois.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He worked at the university at the time of his death. He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. to Florida to Mississippi to create the nation’s first propane corridor.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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The grants will go to projects in 17 states. Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. per gallon. Harvard, Univ.

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DOE and USDA Award $6.3M for Genomics-Enabled Biofuels Research

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These grants will be awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program begun in 2006 that is committed to fundamental research in biomass genomics, providing the scientific foundation to facilitate use of lignocellulosic materials for bioenergy and biofuels. University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. University of Florida, $643,000.

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