Via press release, Sandia National Laboratories will use $4.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to modify and enhance its existing Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab), with the…
Read MoreIn a new story on Nature’s website, Karl Thiel reports that the reauthorization of the Small Business Innovative Research program is in trouble because of a disagreement about the role…
Read MoreThe DOE has paid out only 8% of its Recovery Act funds: And, the National Science Foundation has paid out only 4% of its Recovery Act funds: At least one…
Read MoreThe Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced on Dec. 8 that it is launching a new fellowship project. According to the DOE, ARPA-E is looking to hire (for…
Read MoreExpect to see the DOE, the EPA and other federal agencies make some major announcements next week to coincide with the big Copenhagen conference. The DOE, for example, just issued…
Read MoreThis is just lame. How can the DOE let itself (and the science community) be this strangled by bureaucracy? Only $1.4 billion spent? Apparently the phrase “urgently needed” means different…
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Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of MIT, was the 2009 Frontiers of Science & Technology–Rustum Roy Lecturer at the recent ACerS Annual Meeting…
Read MoreThe DOE has finally reached the $1 billion mark in funds paid out, but it’s still just the tip of the iceberg considering that $19 billion (93%) remains committed but…
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