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Leah Tracy leaves a piece of herself behind at BGSU College of Musical Arts graduate composes anthem for Women’s Chorus By Bob Cunningham ’18 As Leah Tracy prepares to leave her home for the last four years, she is leaving a piece of herself at Bowling Green State University. In Fall 2018, Tracy was approached by Dr. Emily Pence Brown, assistant professor of music education, and officers of the Women’s Chorus with the idea of writing an anthem that demonstrated strength and p...

By Jessica Shankleman and William Mathis (Bloomberg) — GE Renewable Energy will create as many as 750 new jobs in northeast England with a new factory that will make hundreds of giant blades destined for wind turbines in the North Sea. The new facility, located in Teesside, is set to open and begin production in 2023, the company said in a statement. The GE announcement was made on the same day the U.K. government confirmed plans to invest 95 million pounds ($132 million) to create two dedic...

Oil majors outbid green energy firms to build offshore UK windfarms By William Mathis and Laura Hurst on 2/8/2021 click to enlarge (Bloomberg) --Oil majors agreed to pay a hefty premium to develop the next generation of major British offshore wind farms after BP Plc and Total SE won contracts in an auction ahead of many of the utilities that have dominated the space until now. The Crown Estate auctioned seabed rights that will allow about 8 gigawatts of new wind ...

Alabama’s problematic COVID-19 vaccine program leads to a rise of vaccine tourism Updated Jan 27, 2021; Posted Jan 27, 2021 The first COVID-19 vaccines given in central Alabama at the Birmingham VA Medical Center. The vaccine rollout in Alabama has been criticized for being too slow and unorganized. The state ranks near dead last in the U.S. when it comes to the distribution rate of the vaccine. (Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com).Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com Facebook Share Her husband, William, t...

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA and Siemens Energy AG plan to spend 120 million euros ($146 million) to figure out how to generate hydrogen from wind farms in the middle of the sea. The companies aim to build a prototype with one of Siemens Gamesa’s new wind turbines that are the largest on the market with blades that stretch 222 meters (728 feet), roughly the length of two soccer pitches. It’s the latest effort by some of Europe’s biggest clean energ...

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Danish electrolyzer startup Green Hydrogen Systems A/S raised 28 million euros ($34.3 million) to scale up production of the technology that’s at the heart of the European Union’s climate goals. Competition is heating up among makers of the machines to capture a wave of orders that will make up the EU’s first generation of utility-scale green hydrogen production funded by government subsidies. Electrolyzers are the machines that use electricity to separa...

Class of 2020 Success Stories: BGSU experience is music to Gretchen Hills ears By Julie Carle When Gretchen Hill chose to attend Bowling Green State University on a recommendation by her clarinet teacher, she couldn’t fathom the experiences she would encounter. During her four and a half years at BGSU, she traveled abroad; attended a monthlong chamber music festival; connected with musicians, educators and alumni; commissioned a musical composition for her instrument-of-choice, clarinet; and ...

By Rachel Morison and William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Britain’s electricity grid operator is pushing deeper into the turbulent waters of the North Sea, seeking to support the government’s $27 billion program to build up the offshore wind industry. Executives from National Grid Plc meet government officials on Thursday to discuss how a growing tangle of projects offshore can be best connected to the network on land. At the moment, wind farms at sea are each linked individually with separate ...

DeVos Is on Her Way Out, But Public Education Is Still Very Much Under Attack Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the U.S. Department of Education July 8, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong / Getty Images When a Biden victory in the 2020 presidential election became certain, supporters of public education gleefully took to social media to say good riddance to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. DeVos came into office with...

>> there are critics. one critic, dr. william mathis at the university of colorado saying the standards are not tough enough, not high enough, they are minimal. >> these are much higher than a vast majority of states. a recent study came out demonstrating how much better these were. everyone is saying we have to educate our way to a better economy. these are dramatically tougher than what most children experienced. far too long weve been lying to children. weve been telling them they are ready f...