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Innovations In Space Technology Are Still Key
James M. Gentile | September 07, 2011 | Huffington Post
It's been a tough summer for space technology -- both for exploring space and for harnessing its resources. Yet innovation in space technology is still key to U.S. scientific and economic preeminence; space has been primarily America's frontier for 50 years and should remain so.
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Collaboration Within Competition Is Key to American Technological Innovation
James M. Gentile | August 17, 2011 | Huffington Post
As Research Corporation for Science Advancement prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year (as America's oldest foundation dedicated wholly to science), a look back at its history offers insights for the future of U.S. scientific and technological innovation. One of those insights is that collaboration within competition is a...
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Advancing Technology Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
James M. Gentile | May 27, 2011 | Huffington Post
The research of Richard Taylor, published in the May 2011 issue of Physics World, underscores the transformational advances in technology, science, and medicine that are possible through cross-disciplinary collaboration and interaction. Dr. Taylor's title speaks for itself: Professor of Physics, Psychology, and Art at the University of Oregon.
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Converting Sunlight to Fuel
February 09, 2011 | PBS Video
Renowned solar energy researcher and Caltech Professor Nate Lewis, who chairs RCSA’s Scialog review panel, appears on the PBS NOVA documentary Making Stuff: Cleaner, where he discusses his work developing artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight into chemical fuels. See chapter 6 of 6: Sun Power
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Arizona Clean Energy
January 07, 2011 | Arizona Public Media
Richard Wiener, RCSA program officer, and Richard Powell, University of Arizona vice president emeritus, recently appeared on the public TV news magazine Arizona Illustrated and published an Arizona Republic Op-Ed discussing sustainable energy for Arizona.
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Presidential Advisors Call for Energy Innovation Acceleration
December 03, 2010
“A major acceleration is needed in the pace of energy technology innovation, invention, translation, adoption and diffusion,” says the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in a new report.
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