The Arizona Department of Education building in downtown Phoenix.
The Arizona Department of Education is allocating an additional $16 million of its discretionary COVID-19 relief funds, it announced Tuesday. The money is part of the $135.5 million in discretionary funds that the department received from two federal COVID-19 relief packages. With these new allocations, the department has now allocated $116 million of these funds.
The $16 million will be invested into efforts focused on student equity and achievement, teacher recruitment and retention, and college access and attainment. This includes a partnership on an ASU summer math program for K-12 students, and a laptop and hotspot partnership with the city of Phoenix.
The Southwest has grown hotter and drier during the past decade, and new climate data from the federal government shows these changes have been dramatic, shifting the long-term averages that represent the region’s “normal.”
The country’s updated climate “normals” were released Tuesday by the National Centers for Environmental Information, encompassing weather data for the 30-year period from 1991 through 2020. The federal government releases these long-term averages every 10 years as an up-to-date benchmark for comparing with the weather on a daily basis.
Compared with the 30 years that ended in 2010, the new averages show temperatures have gotten warmer nearly everywhere in the country. But the warming has been most pronounced in the Southwest, with average temperatures generally rising between 0.5 degrees F and 1 degree F, an increase that federal meteorologists said clearly reflects the influence of global warming.
Courtesy of Paramium Technologies
Among the startups recognized was Paramium Technologies, a startup based on a method for shaping precision metals that was developed in the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences.
The company received a finalist award of $5,000 in the science and technology category and was selected as a runner-up for the People s Choice award.
Justin Hyatt, a senior research associate at the university s Steward Observatory and former student of renowned inventor and Regents Professor
Roger Angel, led the development of the new technology, which the startup will initially use to precisely and inexpensively manufacture custom antennas.
TLA performed patent and market analyses for the technology, then formed a team to help Hyatt through the formation of the startup, eventually licensing the patent to the newly formed company.
Tucson startup awarded grant from National Science Foundation
has been awarded
grant
to conduct research and development (R&D) work on
efficient manufacturing methods for radio antenna reflectors, the company announced in a news release Tuesday.
Paramium’s “revolutionary” technology it said will enhance a broad spectrum of industries, especially the world’s ability to utilize the internet which is quickly becoming a vital utility for humans. The demand for satellite ground stations in communications, astronomy and architectural applications is forecasted to increase as developing countries are rapidly coming online, it said.
Paramium said its “innovative” manufacturing solution unlocks rapid prototyping capabilities for antenna designers because it is faster and more versatile than traditional methods. The underlying technology was developed by researchers and faculty that stem from the University of Arizona through the C
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