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Elon Musk looking to found STEM school, including University: Bloomberg

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It appears that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now looking to start a school, eventually expected to expand into a university in his home state of Texas. The filing also says that Musk will eventually look to expand the schools to include a University once the primary and secondary schools are operational.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Samsung is planning a $17 billion fab near Austin , Texas, and in September Intel broke ground on the first of two massive new facilities worth $20 billion in central Ohio. Intel arrives at Ohio State Ohio State University is using its chip-fabrication facility to train future engineers and technicians. Exciting as this is for the U.S.

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ARPA-E awarding $10M to 8 projects studying low-energy nuclear reactions

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The following teams have been selected to receive funding as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) LENR Exploratory Topic: Amphionic LLC. Stanford University. Stanford University will explore a technical solution based on LENR-active nanoparticles and gaseous deuterium. Texas Tech University.

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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

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Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership.

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TxDOT, TTI sign MOU to test connected and automated vehicle technologies in Texas

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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to begin testing connected and automated vehicle (CV/AV) technologies on the state highway system. This partnership builds upon the recent Texas Mobility Summit hosted by TxDOT.

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University of Texas at Austin study measuring methane emissions released from natural gas production

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A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin, and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research, is conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production, about which little empirical data exist.

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