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Fri, 05/14/2021 - 3:51pm -- tim Applied Research Associates tapped to provide the Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab with a new test bed to study the impact of cold weather on key transportation infrastructures Vermont Business Magazine US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) announced Friday that Applied Research Associates (ARA) of Randolph, Vermont, has received an award totaling $5,237,915 from the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and ...

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Spearfish native journeys into polar regions for research Follow Us Question of the Day SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) - A Spearfish native has worked her way up to a pretty cool job - literally. Jennifer Mercer has worked her way from Antarctica to the Arctic Ocean, doing atmospheric and snow studies. Now, she’s the Acting Section Head for the Arctic Sciences Section of the National Science Foundation. Mercer said her journey into the Arctic started in college with her interest in photogra...

On the Trails: Mud season presents a slate of challenges The COVID-19 pandemic shares something with mud season on Upper Valley trails: Irresponsible approaches to either can have negative effects on everyone. Published: 4/9/2021 11:00:07 PM Modified: 4/9/2021 11:00:09 PM The last year has been difficult for everyone. Even in our idyllic corner of the world, we’ve been confined to our homes, isolated from loved ones and tasked to endure additional hardships when going about our daily lives. ...

The Cooper Union Says It Is on Track to Restore Tuition-Free Education by 2029, Despite Pandemic-Related Setbacks The school faced heated blowback after it started charging tuition in 2012. A banner calling for free tuition hung at the Cooper Union during a 2011 protest. The Cooper Union, home to a storied and once tuition-free art school in New York, is on track to restore its original mission to make education as “free as air and water,” in the words of founder Peter Cooper, by 2029. Two...

Previous image Next image ChoKyun Rha ’62, SM ’64, SM ’66, SCD ’67, an MIT professor post-tenure and a groundbreaker in biomaterials science and engineering, died March 2 in Boston. She was 87. The first woman of Asian descent to receive tenure at MIT, Rha held four degrees from the Institute and taught at MIT for more than four decades. Her husband, MIT professor of microbiology Anthony Sinskey ScD ’67, also attended MIT, as did their two sons — Tong-ik Lee Sinskey ’79, SM ’80 ...

MSU Project Headed To The Moon In 2023 A lunar lander called Blue Ghost will touch down on the Earths Moon in 2023, carrying with it a Montana State University experiment on how outer space radiation affects computers. Marshall Swearingen of MSU News reported that RadPC has already been tested in Earth orbit and on the International Space Station. NASA had earlier accepted the project as part of a payload headed toward the lunar surface, but a schedule this past week gives the Bozeman, Montana,...

Boise State News February 24, 2021 From the single falling snowflake to the terrifying power of an avalanche, snow is something that Boise State researchers take pretty seriously. It’s no wonder when one realizes that winter snowfall is responsible for about 70 percent of Boise and Idaho’s water supply. Globally, the world depends upon snowpack and snow melt for everything from hydropower to agriculture production. Snow is an integral part of successful economies, ecology, the e...

The government of Québec will invest 400 million Canadian dollars ($316 million) in Telesat‘s new Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, Lightspeed. In return, Canadian satellite operator Telesat will invest CA$1.6 billion into Québec by moving a “significant portion” of Lightspeed manufacturing and operations to the Canadian province, according to the terms of the MoU agreement announced February 18. Telesat’s new Québec-based Lightspeed production and operations facilities will incl...