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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). Consortium members: Arizona State University, Blinn Community College (TX), Michigan State University, Rutgers University and Texas A&M University. $4

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for Sustainable Transportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

The NCST is one of only five national transportation centers awarded under the University Transportation Centers program reauthorized by the federal Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act. It is the only national transportation center focused on environmental preservation and the only one in California.

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 21, 2012

A university team making a coast-to-coast trip across America has successfully smashed its own fuel-use goal, using a fraction of the measly 10 gallons it intended to use on the 2,582 mile journey. Starting in Tybee Island, Georgia on the Atlantic coast and arriving at Long Beach, California on the Pacific coast four days later, [.].

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JUNE 21, 2016

Texas A&M University will lead the Gulf Coast center—a region anchored in the chemical, oil and gas sectors—and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will lead the Northeast center, where glass, ceramic and microelectronic manufacturing has a strong presence. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Louisiana State U.; Missouri U.

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