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2008 News and Events Archive
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College Students Find Greener Solutions to Protect the Planet: EPA P3 Award WinnersEPA’s annual People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition plants the seeds for future technologies that are both environmentally-friendly and profitable. The competition winners announced last night show the agency harvested a plentiful crop this year.
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Federal News Radio reports on the National Sustainable Design ExpoFederal News Radio interviewed George Gray, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development, and Christopher Zarba, Deputy Director of the National Center for Environmental Research about the sustainable design college competition on the National Mall.
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WPI team builds device to harness wind powerKite flying students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute aren't waiting until they graduate to start changing the world.
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Everyone is talking these days about "going green" and sustainability. And they're also asking: "What does sustainability really mean?
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EPA to Host Earth Day Meeting on Sustainability ProjectsScientists and engineers supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS) program are meeting April 22-23 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel and in EPA offices in Washington, D.C., to solicit input and share early progress on their projects.
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New EPA Video Highlights Biodiversity Research ProgramDr. Montira Pongsiri describes the EPA's upcoming research through a new interdisciplinary program designed to understand how maintaining healthy ecosystems and biodiversity can protect people from disease.
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New Report Identifies Solutions for A Cleaner New York/New Jersey Harbor(New York – April 03, 2008) The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) has issued a groundbreaking report summarizing pollution prevention (P2) strategies for five contaminants to the NY/NJ Harbor.
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Earth Day 2008: Green Technology and Buildings Bloom on the National MallOn April 20 – 22, 2008, EPA will hold the National Sustainable Design Expo which showcases new sustainable or “green” technologies.
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Small Businesses Grow Big Environmental Technologies(Washington, D.C. – March 26, 2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a “small” program with tremendous success stories. EPA today announced $1.75 million in SBIR contracts to 25 small businesses to research and develop new environmental technologies.
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America's Heartland: EdenSpace Plants VideoOne of our great pleasures on America’s Heartland is discovering the lesser known, unusual products grown and raised by American farmers and ranchers.
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EPA Knows More about Children's Environmental Health Than EverEPA has published a research summary report called: A Decade of Children’s Health Research. This report summarizes important research findings found from $127 million invested in research grants on children’s environmental health in response to an executive order issued in 1997.
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16 STAR Grantees Receive AAAS Honors
Sixteen STAR grantees were elected as AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Fellows in 2007. These honors are awarded to AAAS members who have made significant efforts to advance science or its applications.
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Nanotechnology: The Big News is Small
Americans are famous for building big: the tallest sky scraper, the biggest jet, the widest plasma TV screen. But now U.S. entrepreneurs are considering thinking small.
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Jeopardy Quizzes America with Environmental Clues
Jeopardy’s field correspondents, known as the “Clue Crew,” travel the world to find “unique, fascinating, and entertaining” facts. On April 24, 2007, the Clue Crew visited EPA’s National Sustainable Design Expo on the Mall.
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64 P3 Grants Awarded
EPA has awarded 64 P3 grants (58 Phase I and 6 Phase II) to student teams representing 56 universities in 29 states. Winners were chosen from about 100 teams who applied. All the Phase I competition winners received $10,000 (and Phase II received $75,000) grants to research and develop their design projects during the academic year (2007-2008). The total amount awarded through these 64 grants was $1,080,000.
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STAR Grantee Develops Potentially Inexpensive Nanotube Solar Technology
Somenath Mitra, along with researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has developed a potentially cheap solar technology which can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. The benefits could be enormous to the consumer, producer, and the environment.
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EPA Awards $3.45 Million in Grants to Assess Health Outcomes
EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program has awarded $3.45 million in grants to 6 universities and 1 state agency to develop indicators that signal the impact of changes in the environment, policies or management approaches on public health.
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Nanoparticle-Anchored Plasticizers
With support from EPA’s SBIR Program, TDA Research, Inc., developed a system that softens plastics by forming a polymer nanocomposite that does not become brittle and contaminate its surroundings by leaching its plasticizer.
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STAR Grantee Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
M. Granger Morgan, a former STAR grantee, has been elected to the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Morgan is University Professor and head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon (where he is also Lord chair professor in engineering and is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management).
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Chicago to Build On Wastewater Reuse Research Done by Paul Anderson
In 2004 NCER launched the Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS). The grant-based program was designed to fund projects which explored new, collaborative, and system-based approaches to sustainability. In its first year the program funded 12 projects, one of which was developed by Paul R. Anderson.
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STAR Grantee Wins a MacArthur Fellowship
Dr. Marc Edwards, a former STAR grantee and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been chosen as a MacArthur Fellow for 2007. While being funded by STAR Edwards did research concerning the coagulation and removal of particulate matter, natural organic matter (NOM), and arsenic from drinking water.
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EPA Requesting Environmental Technology Research Proposals from Small Business
EPA has opened its 2008 SBIR Phase I solicitation requesting research proposals from small businesses in the following areas: Innovation in Manufacturing; Nanotechnology; Green Buildings; Drinking Water and Water Monitoring; Water Infrastructure Rehabilitation; Monitoring and Control of Air Pollution; Biofuels and Vehicle Emissions Reduction; Waste Management and Monitoring and Homeland Security.
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Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), in cooperation with the EPA Global Change Research Program, announces a competition for projects supporting research into the consequences of climate change for U.S. water quality to support human and aquatic life uses. EPA is interested in the hydrologic and other watershed processes that affect water resources that may be altered by a changing climate.
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Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) soliciting applications from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering and/or conducting of conferences, workshops, and/or meetings (hereinafter referred to as “conferences”) that focus on research to protect human health and safeguard the environment.
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Health Effects of Near-Roadway Exposures to Air Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program, is seeking initial proposals for studies of the health effects associated with near-roadway exposures to air pollution. An expanding body of epidemiological data suggests that increased health risks are associated with air pollution exposures in populations residing close to roadways.
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Building a Sustainable America - One Community at a Time
Even deep into the political debate season, there is one issue that generates much agreement: the need to go green while keeping the economy growing. That's the target of the $3 million in grants EPA awarded on November 8, 2007 to cities and universities under its Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS) program. [Read More]
8th National Tribal Conference on Environmental Management (NTCEM)
- June 24 - 26, 2008
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2008 SBIR/STTR National Spring Conference
- May 27 - 30, 2008
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2008 EPA/AAAS Graduate Fellowship Program Expo
May 19, 2008
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Sources, Composition, and Health Effects of Coarse PM Grants Kickoff Meeting
May 8, 2008
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Sources and Atmospheric Formation of Organic PM Grants Kick-off Meeting
May 7, 2008
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EPA Region 3 Climate Change & Particulate Matter Spring Conference
- April 30, 2008
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Collaborative Science and Technology Network For Sustainability (CNS) Grantee Workshop
- April 22 - 23, 2008
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SBIR Workshop
- April 22, 2008
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4th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo
- April 20 - 22, 2008
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SBIR Workshop
- April 09, 2008
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The Joint U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Homeland Security Conference
on Real-World Applications and Solutions for Microbial Risk Assessment
- April 08 - 10, 2008
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SBIR Phase 1 Kick-off Meeting
- April 03 - 04, 2008
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Research Approaches to Assessing Public Health Impacts of Risk Management Decisions
- Tuesday, January 22 - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Environmental Behavior and Decision-Making: Corporate Environmental Behavior and Benefits of Environmental Information Disclosure Workshop
- Monday, January 14 – Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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