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Charlotte Douglas International Airport to buy 5 Proterra electric buses; 9th airport

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Proterra charging systems utilize the universal J1772-CCS Type 1 charging standard, enabling buses, utility vehicles and cars to share the same chargers. CLT is the first airport to leverage the Georgia State Contract to purchase Proterra electric buses. CLT’s Proterra buses will be manufactured locally in Greenville, SC.

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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

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And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. At the time, her father was a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The company provided engineering services for five power companies including Alabama Power , Florida Power , and Georgia Power.

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EPA Awards $3.6M in Grants for Particulate Matter Research

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million in four grants to universities to research the relationship between the chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) and health effects. Grants were awarded to: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, $899,956. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.,

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Raleigh, N.C. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Deploying Intra-hour Uncertainty Analysis Tools to ABB's GridView, $500,000 ABB Power Consulting, Raleigh, N.C. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y. Niskayuna, N.Y.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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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. Power America (Raleigh, NC). Missouri U. of Virginia; Virginia Tech; U.