Archive for the 'Press Releases' Category
Mar
11
Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey shows commitment to TSCA reform.
March 11, 2016 | Comments Off on Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey shows commitment to TSCA reform.
NAM released findings from latest Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey, which also polled members on topics that the TSCA reform will address. Top problems included ineffective/duplicative regulations (46.2%), reporting and paperwork burdens (46.2%), …
Mar
11
NTSB Determines Separate Causes of OK crash, passengers’ injuries.
March 11, 2016 | Comments Off on NTSB Determines Separate Causes of OK crash, passengers’ injuries.
As determined by National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), truck-tractor driver’s use of synthetic cannabinoid resulted in his crash with medium-sized bus that consequently killed 4 members of North Central Texas College softball team that were not wearing seatbelts. NTSB issued several recommendations addressing impairing substances not tested for under federal regulations and called upon states to require seat belt use for all vehicle seating positions equipped with belts.
Mar
11
Colorado School earns return trip to National Science Bowl.
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Forty-four teams from across the state recently competed for a shot to represent Colorado at the National Science Bowl in April. After a full day answering rapid-fire questions in physics, math, astronomy, chemistry, anthropology, and earth sciences,…
Mar
11
BIO Announces Dennis McGinn as industrial biotech event speaker.
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As part of 2016 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, held in San Diego, CA from April 17–20, Honorable Dennis McGinn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, Installations, and Environment, will address biofuel and biorefining technology developers during “Overcoming Challenges to Biorefinery Scale Up” plenary. This general session, addressing what is needed to ensure successful scale up of commercial industrial biotechnology process, will also feature Jeff Lievense and Alan Propp.
Mar
11
Overlooked Resistance inflates estimates of OFET performance.
March 11, 2016 | Comments Off on Overlooked Resistance inflates estimates of OFET performance.
Organic field-effect transistors behave less than ideally, or at least not up to standards set by their rigid, predictable silicon counterparts. If measurements fail to account for divergent behaviors, resulting estimates of how fast electrons or oth…
Mar
11
ASA and AIA Sign Agreement to grow workforce, jobs, economy.
March 11, 2016 | Comments Off on ASA and AIA Sign Agreement to grow workforce, jobs, economy.
Aerospace States Association (ASA) and AIA signed agreement to grow high-paying jobs, increase economic development, and inspire America’s youth to join future aerospace workforce. In addition to helping inform aerospace state officials as well as better positioning them to wisely legislate/regulate/engage, collaboration benefits aerospace professional education/training; new technology development, testing, and incubation; as well as sponsorship and tax structure facilitation opportunities.