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Northwestern University Athletic Director Jim Phillips, pictured at a 2013 news conference, was named the next commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)
EVANSTON, IL Northwestern University Athletic Director Jim Phillips will resign to take a job as the next commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, conference officials announced Monday. Phillips will succeed John Swofford, who earlier this year announced plans to retire in June 2021 after nearly 25 years as ACC commissioner.
Phillips, a native of Chicago s Northwest Side, worked for the Notre Dame athletic department and spent four years as athletic director at Northern Illinois University before he was hired by Northwestern in April 2008 as its athletic director. In 2012, he was given the title of vice president for athletics and recreation.
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Erika Strojinc (Buffalo Grove Park District)
BUFFALO GROVE, IL The Buffalo Grove Park District has promoted Erika Strojinc to director of recreation and facilities. She replaces Bill Heider, who recently retired after serving in that role for six years, and being with the District since 2010.
Strojinc, a graduate of Buffalo Grove High School, first started with the Park District as a part-time employee in 1999 as a high school student working for the Clubhouse program, according to a press release. She was promoted to full time recreation specialist with Clubhouse in 2005, and to recreation supervisor in 2008, where she oversaw programs such as day camps, early childhood classes, youth and adult programming, Safety Town, birthday parties, special events, and internships.
Stronger cobalt for fuel cells
PNNL leads effort to improve reaction activity, increase durability of cobalt as a fuel cell catalyst
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
By Mary Ann Showalter
A multi-institutional research team led by materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has designed a highly active and durable catalyst that doesn t rely on costly platinum to spur the necessary chemical reaction.
The new catalyst contains cobalt interspersed with nitrogen and carbon. When compared to a similarly structured catalyst made from iron another promising, well-studied platinum substitute, the team found that the cobalt catalyst achieved a similar reaction but with four times the durability.
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