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(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Governors looking to boost job creation in their states should cultivate industry clusters that focus on existing businesses and home-grown start-ups, says a Brookings Institution report released on Wednesday..."Oak Ridge National Lab -- the world's largest multidisciplinary research institution -- and the University of Tennessee, with a $242 million annual research budget, have helped catalyze an agricultural R&D cluster in Eastern Tennessee's Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley around biofuels...1/19
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(PR Newswire) Saint-Gobain, the world's largest building products manufacturer, has been selected to join the U.S. Department of Energy's U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center for Building Energy Efficiency (CERC BEE)...The CERC BEE features a consortium led by Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory that includes Oak Ridge National Laboratory and industry research partners, such as Saint-Gobain...1/19
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) A Chattanooga-based medical research firm that would compile data from Ivy League scientists investigating diseases -- including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's -- will allow the city to capitalize on its high-tech framework, supporters say...[Stephen] Meyer said a major incentive for number-crunching scientists to reroute their research is the Jaguar, a supercomputer housed in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He said the group will use "Chattanooga infrastructure" to send data to the Northeast...1/19 |
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DOE
(Oak Ridger) Proposed budget cuts in Congress could cut funding for U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge, and local leaders should convene a conference to explain the importance of the work conducted here to new state and federal officials, former U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp said Tuesday...1/19
(Tricity Herald)
Two Hanford contractors announced late this afternoon that more than 1,600 employees will have to be laid off as federal economic stimulus spending comes to an end...1/19
(DOE Press Release)
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today two new initiatives to promote tribal energy development and continue strengthening the partnership between the Department of Energy and tribal nations...1/19 |
National
(Washington Post) As Chinese President Hu Jintao was being feted at the White House Wednesday, a bipartisan collection of congressmen gave a much sharper welcome to the leader of the world's most populous nation, questioning China's handling of its domestic economy and its alleged human rights abuses...1/19
East Tennessee
(Metro Pulse) ...Once he wanted to be a vet and spend his time taking care of cows and horses. Now he has to be president of the University of Tennessee...1/19
State & Regional
(Daily News Journal) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the sheepnose and the spectaclecase, two freshwater mussels found in river systems in the eastern half of the United States...1/19
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