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Susskind receives Global Environment Award
04-03-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Lawrence E. Susskind, the Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Environmental Studies in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has received this year's International Association for Impact Assessment Global Environment Award.
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- Open Science Grid Receives $30 Million Award to Empower Scientific Collaboration and Computation
09-25-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
Scientists on the track to discovery got good news this month when a powerful computing tool received critical government funding. A five-year, $30 million award to the Open Science Grid Consortium, announced by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will operate and expand the Open Science Grid, a computing environment used by scientists to harness computing resources and scientific data from around the world.
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- Tim Berners-Lee receives Draper Prize
01-05-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Timothy J. Berners-Lee, will receive the 2007 Charles Stark Draper Prize, the $500,000 annual award and gold medallion considered "engineering's Nobel Prize."
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- Brookhaven Lab's Ralph James Honored with Harold Wheeler Award from Engineering Society
01-31-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Long Island Section has chosen Ralph James as the recipient of the Harold Wheeler Award. James is the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy, Environment & National Security at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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- ORNL's Ho Nyung Lee cited as top early career scientist
11-01-2007 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Ho Nyung Lee is one of eight Department of Energy scientists to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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- Renewable energy wrecks environment
07-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment.
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- Freshmen get DEEP into energy and environment
09-27-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
It was uncharacteristically cool during the day last month when MIT atmospheric chemistry graduate student Matthew J. Alvarado found himself talking about global warming to a troupe of newly arrived MIT freshmen.
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- UN issues analysis of global investors' sustainable energy 'gold rush'
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
Climate change worries coupled with high oil prices and increasing government support top a set of drivers fueling soaring rates of investment in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries, according to a trend analysis from the UN Environment Programme.
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- America's 'anti-prostitution pledge' is hindering global HIV control efforts
07-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
In order to receive US funding for HIV prevention or control projects, recipient organizations must take a pledge that explicitly condemns prostitution. But such condemnation is not effective at helping to control the global HIV epidemic, say researchers in this week's PLoS Medicine.
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- Pulitzer-winning dramatist honored
10-18-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks will receive the 2006-2007 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts on Oct. 27 at MIT.
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- ORNL's Zinkle receives E.O. Lawrence Award
02-07-2007 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Steven J. Zinkle has been named a winner of the Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which honors midcareer scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions in research and development.
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