NSF’s first Innovation Corps awards announced
October 6th, 2011 | by Eileen De Guire
Credit: NSF We first told you about the NSF Innovation Corps initiative when it was unveiled by NSF director, Subra …
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ARPA-E awards $31.6 million to rare-earth substitute projects
October 5th, 2011 | by Eileen De Guire
ARPA-E announced $31.6 million in awards to develop new, rare-earth-free permanent magnet materials. Credit: ARPA-E Rare earth permanent magnets …NSF launches new Career-Life Balance Initiative, workplace flexibility policies
October 4th, 2011 | by Kristen Brosnan
Credit: P. Wray; ACerS Last Monday the White House and National Science Foundation announced a new 10-year plan to increase …Feds fund six clean energy ‘proof of concept’ centers
October 3rd, 2011 | by Eileen De Guire
The national i6 Green initiative leverages resources of five federal agencies to advance clean technology commercialization, focusing on promoting Proof …‘Stretching and morphing’ the ARRA’s purpose = stimulus fail
September 30th, 2011 | by pwray@ceramics.org
DOE Recovery Act Funds status, 9/30/11. Credit: recovery.gov Two things out of the box: First, remember, permissum lector caveo (translation: What …ARPA-E announces 2012 Energy Innovation Summit for February
September 23rd, 2011 | by Eileen De Guire
Energy secretary, Steven Chu, and ARPA-E director, Arun Majumdar. Majumdar recently announced the next Energy Innovation Summit will be Feb. …NSF doubles its investment in Yale-Southern Conn. State University MRSEC enterprise
September 13th, 2011 | by Eileen De Guire
Custom-built oxide molecular beam epitaxy system at Yale. Credit: CRISP. The National Science Foundation has awarded a Materials Research Science …Solyndra’s downfall likely to reverberate in courts, DOE, but indicative of high competition
September 7th, 2011 | by pwray@ceramics.org
This was the bad news (at least for investors) from Fremont, Calif., last week: Solyndra LLC, the American manufacturer of …Update on Calisolar: ‘Columbus? You thought we meant Ohio?!?’
September 7th, 2011 | by pwray@ceramics.org
Calisolar’s Sunnyvale, Calif., offices. Credit: Calisolar, Wikipedia Back in July, we reported how State of Ohio and federal officials were …ARPA-E awards $15.5M to leverage $108M for five clean tech innovators; says rare-earth innovations awards coming
August 31st, 2011 | by pwray@ceramics.org
Transphorm, one of the companies that will be receiving ARPA-E and private investment funding, uses gallium nitride transistors to tackle …