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FAA awards $7.5M in research grants for integration of drones into national airspace

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million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). This is the third round of ASSURE grants for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020.

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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding grants totaling $7.4 million to Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Ill.,to University of Louisville, and 23 others. NIST is also awarding $2.4

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DOE awarding $17M to university-led nuclear energy research and development

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The US Department of Energy will award some $17 million in research grants to 23 university-led teams aimed at strengthening the research and development capabilities of American universities and colleges to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technologies and upgrade research reactors across the country.

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Asplundh adds medium-duty propane autogas F-650 trucks to fleet

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Asplundh, an international provider of vegetation management services to utilities and municipalities, is one of the first in its industry to adopt propane autogas for some of the medium-duty trucks in its fleet. A North Carolina State University grant for Clean Fuel Advanced Technology helped fund one of Asplundh’s vehicles.

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UGA/NCSU team engineers hyperthermophilic bacterium to produce industrial chemical building blocks from CO2 and H2; ARPA-E project

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Researchers at the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University have used a unique temperature-dependent approach in engineering a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus to be able to use CO 2 and hydrogen to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, one of the top 12 industrial chemical building blocks.

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Ford and Progress Energy partner to prepare Research Triangle area for EVs

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Ford Motor Company and Progress Energy are working together to help prepare the Research Triangle area of North Carolina for the operation of electric vehicles. Progress Energy is developing a charging station pilot program as part of a $200 million smart grid grant it received from the US Department of Energy.

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NCSU researchers create shortcut to terpene biosynthesis in E. coli

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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an artificial enzymatic pathway for synthesizing isoprenoids, or terpenes, in E. Terpenes are a large class of naturally occurring molecules that are useful in a range of industries. A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology.