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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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DEED sets records

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Members of the Gateway Electric Vehicle Association at the St. Louis DEED event. From established events to first-timers Gateway Electric Vehicle Association ’s (GEVA), participation in the St. Community Partners included Climate Action Reserve , Forth , and Virginia Clean Cities.

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APRA-E awards WUSTL $2M to develop predictive battery management system for plug-in vehicles; targeting more efficient use

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A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) will receive $2 million from the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E to design a predictive battery management system for lithium-ion batteries to guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. The School of Engineering & Applied Science is providing $1.2

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. The big idea is to develop small, efficient biorefineries that can process local biomass, saving the cost and trouble of transporting and storing biomass from a larger region.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches.

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AI’s Grandmaster Status Overshadows Chess Scandal

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grandmaster, of cheating during their game at the Sinquefield Cup , in St. Just a phrase—“the rook,” say, or “double attack”—may also make the idea apparent. Other university programs then took the lead, until at last a machine originating at Carnegie Mellon and redomiciled at IBM reached 2600, about grandmaster strength.