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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding 20 grants for FY 2009 in two research areas on natural systems: biosensing and bioactuation (12 awards); and obtaining hydrocarbons from biomass and microorganisms (8 awards). The fungus Gliocladium roseum produces and excretes a series of hydrocarbons known as “mycodiesel.”

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JANUARY 12, 2010

A range of cellulosic feedstocks used in the demonstration unit, including selected waste agriculture products, pulp, paper, woody biomass, algae and dedicated energy crops like switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum will be provided by Ceres Inc., Life Cycle Analysis will be performed by Michigan Tech University.

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OCTOBER 18, 2009

The commitment came as part of a grant under the United States Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program and was funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The hydraulic hybrid is able to recover and reuse about 70% of the energy that otherwise would have been wasted during the braking process. Brake Energy Recovery.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

In all, the grants are spread across 17 states with 43 per cent of the cash going to small businesses, 35 per cent to educational institutions and 19 per cent to large corporations. They have received a grant of $4,462,162.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

A partnership led by researchers at Michigan Technological University is addressing those issues in a three-year, $2.8 million grant from the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. This requires more frequent resupply and wastes the energy required for urea production and distribution.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. The project also includes a proprietary process to convert waste biomass into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to feed the bioreactor, allowing butanol production from waste feedstocks. Michigan State). Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (UC

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AUGUST 30, 2011

This brings NextCAT’s total grant funding to $1.3 The company’s goal is to commercialize a class of catalysts that enable biodiesel producers to convert cost-effective raw materials such as waste vegetable oil, animal fats and residual corn oil into biodiesel. The NextCAT science team includes Steven Salley, Ph.D.,

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Grant: $4,000,000). DOE grant: $1,999,447). Earlier post.) Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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JUNE 7, 2022

Because electrical engineering uses a lot of mathematics, a subject Gelenbe liked, he figured he wouldn’t be wasting his time by studying EE. His first teaching job was as an assistant professor of computer, information, and control engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He kind of twisted my arm.”

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AUGUST 1, 2013

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

John Hart SM ’02, PhD ’06, now a professor at the University of Michigan, describing laboratory tests that demonstrate that nanotubes really can exceed the energy storage potential of steel, appears in the September issue of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. Another paper by Livermore, Hill, Havel and A. Resources.

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APRIL 19, 2009

In 1947 scientists at Bell Labs, which owed its existence to a government-granted monopoly, invented the transistor, the essential ingredient that in time led to the integrated circuit and the microprocessor. Bell Labs licensed the technology to all comers. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76

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JUNE 4, 2022

in 1973 and is now associate dean and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “I Shoup stayed at PARC, supported by Kay’s research group, while Smith moved on, armed with a National Education Association grant to do computer art. Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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APRIL 10, 2010

states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Another potential use of allowance value is to provide the general public a “dividend” related to the public’s having granted firms the right to make use of the waste-disposal services of the atmosphere through their emissions.

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