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North Carolina’s Economic Forecast: Steady growth for 2021

December 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Economic Forecast, Economics, Economy, North Carolina

North Carolina’s economy – which experienced its biggest decline since the Great Depression – will bounce back in 2021, according to John Connaughton, director of the Barings/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast.

Announcement

DOE awards funding to six Argonne battery manufacturing projects

October 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS), Awards And Recognition, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Cooperative Research And Development Agreements (CRADAs), New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin

Six innovative battery manufacturing projects led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory recently obtained funding through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Research Results

Study Finds High Levels of Toxic Pollutants in Stranded Dolphins and Whales

August 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Atlantic Ocean, Chemicals, consumer products, Dolphins, Environment, Florida, Fossil Fuels, Marine Environments, North Carolina, Pathology, Plastics, Pollutants, Pollution, Toxins, Whales

Researchers examined toxins in tissue concentrations and pathology data from 83 stranded dolphins and whales from 2012 to 2018. They looked at 11 different animal species to test for 17 different substances. The study is the first to report on concentrations in blubber tissues of stranded cetaceans of atrazine, DEP, NPE and triclosan. It also is the first to report concentrations of toxicants in a white-beaked dolphin and in Gervais’ beaked whales.

Announcement

Department of Energy awards $3.15 million to Argonne to support collaborations with industry

July 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Artificial Intelligence, Ceramics, Colorado, Combustion Engineering, Connecticut, Cooperative Research And Development Agreements (CRADAs), Heat Transfer and Combustion, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nanomaterials, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nuclear Reactors, Ohio, public-private partnerships, tribology, Washington, Wisconsin

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $33 million in funding for 82 projects aimed at advancing commercialization of promising energy technologies and strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Laboratories and private-sector companies.

Announcement

UNC Charlotte Welcomes 11th Class of Prestigious Levine Scholarship Program

May 11, 2020 sarah Jonas Charlotte, North Carolina, Scholarship

Twenty-one young leaders from across the United States have been selected as the 11th class of UNC Charlotte’s Levine Scholars Program, the University’s most prestigious merit-based scholarship.

Research Results

Believing in climate change doesn’t mean you are preparing for climate change, study finds

October 8, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Climate Change, North Carolina, Weather

Notre Dame researchers found that although coastal homeowners may perceive a worsening of climate change-related hazards, these attitudes are largely unrelated to a homeowner’s expectations of actual home damage.