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Ceramic and glass business news of the week for October 10, 2022

By Lisa McDonald / October 10, 2022

World’s biggest flow battery opens in China, Lithoz acquires CerAMing, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for October 10, 2022.

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Obama’s proposed 2015 budget includes increased spending for R&D, STEM education

By Jessica McMathis / March 7, 2014

President Obama has delivered to Congress a $3.9-trillion budget request for 2015 that includes $56 billion for his “Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative” and increased spending for research and development (R&D).

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Midwest lands new innovation hubs built to boost advanced manufacturing

By Jessica McMathis / February 27, 2014

Manufacturing production is up, and US manufacturers are adding jobs (some 622,000 since early 2010)—but a $280-million investment in two new innovation institutes cements a renewed commitment to advanced manufacturing in the States.

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NSF launches new Career-Life Balance Initiative, workplace flexibility policies

By Kristen Brosnan / October 4, 2011

Credit: P. Wray; ACerS Last Monday the White House and National Science Foundation announced a new 10-year plan to increase workplace flexibilities to support American scientists and their families. One…

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U.S advanced battery market share to leap to 40% by 2015?

By / July 15, 2010

A new White House report and press release asserts that the United State’s share of the world’s advance battery market will have grown tremendously in about six years, moving from…

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