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“In order to do more, I have to know more.”
“I want to take on new responsibilities, but how do I get the background I need?”
These ideas and questions, and many like them, were what we heard when we spoke with Young Professionals about AIChE could do to help them […]
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In an update to “Prizes…the Future of Innovation?,” new prize competitions have been announced by the X PRIZE Foundation and NASA in which chemical engineers can potentially make money while they make a difference to serve humanity.
Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE (www.iprizecleanoceans.org)
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The X PRIZE […]
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Look Around You is a British television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz,
and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert.
Here’s an Amazon editor’s thoughts on the series:
Look Around You is a spoof science program that hilariously re-creates both the drab, depressing air of […]
Dr. Craig Venter discusses the creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome at Ted.
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When you think of synthetic life, how many of you conjure up an image of Bishop 341-B, from the 1986 science fiction film Aliens or do you think of the largely genetic focused science instead?
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that six carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions-capturing projects have been selected to receive $106 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Each project demonstrates the potential for using CO2 as an inexpensive raw material that can reduce carbon dioxide emissions while producing useful by-products […]
Read the rest of this entry »This video demonstrates the real power of solar energy. Courtesy of Fatsomus
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Hi guys.
It’s Greg the orange cat again with a (very short) Microsoft Excel tip.
Tip#4: Indirect References
Much of Excel’s usefulness comes from an ability to reference cells in formulas. In this case, the cells themselves function as variables.
Indirect referencing allows you to go one step further, allowing you to put a […]
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Failure is a word no one likes to hear, especially if it’s in reference to their career. It’s often fear of failure that prevents people from taking risks in their career. However, it could be argued that taking risks, calculated risks, may be exactly what’s necessary to turn a failure […]
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Holly Pattenden is a risk analyst with Business Monitor International.
She discusses the future of BP with NPR’s Don Gonyea in the wake of BP’s announcement that current CEO Tony Hayward is to step down and be replaced by American executive Bob Dudley in October, 2010.
Listen to the story on NPR […]
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Dr. Sunita Satyapal is director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Program within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. She is responsible for the program’s overall strategy and execution covering both hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, including oversight and coordination of approximately $100 million in research, development, demonstration and deployment activities.
CEP editor Emily Frangenberg had a chance to sit down with Dr. Satyapal at AIChE's 2013 Spring Meeting to discuss her work at the US Department of Energy. You can watch the interview in the video panel at right.
Dr. Sunita Satyapal's talk was titled "Progress and Challenges in Emerging Clean Energy Technology: A Case Study in Hydrogen and Fuel Cells from the U.S. Department of Energy." See Abstract.
