From the 270 submissions for the Dow STEMtheGAP Summer Teacher Challenge, 25 teachers were selected to each receive a grant from Dow to advance their STEM education platforms in the classroom. Introduced in the spring of 2014, Dow's ...
Tags: science, technology, engineering, Construction
Diamantaires were happy to see the back of 2014. After all, it was a tough year in which polished diamond prices declined, accelerating the general downtrend evident since mid-2011. Therefore, there is understandably some uncertainty about ...
More Chinese are applying for a United States visa, pushing up the number of outbound tours to the US. Last month, China and the US agreed to extend the validity of short-term tourist and business visas issued to each other's citizens ...
Tags: Visa Policy, Visitors
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced that MaiTai Global Inc. will hold the semi-finals of the Extreme Tech Challenge at the 2015 International CES. The Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) brings together targeted ...
Tags: 2015 CES, high-energy entrepreneurs, Consumer Electronics
Based on actual total installation capacity of 3.79GWp for PV systems set up around China during the first three quarters of 2014, the total installation capacity for the whole year is estimated at 7-10GWp, far short of the target of 14GWp ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV systems, Lights
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to Nuevo Midstream, L.L.C., to build three gas processing plants. The facility is ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Capital Investments, Industrial Equipment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications from eligible non-profit groups and tribal communities for the 2015 Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG) Program. The EJSG Program provides funding for projects ...
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File image courtesy of Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. Hunt & Hunt lawyers, together with the Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA), has made a joint submission to Customs regarding its proposed changes to the criteria for ...
Chinese LED manufacturers IPO applications remain a lengthy tedious procedure. As of October 10, China Securities Regulatory Committee (CSRC) only approved 33 out of 623 LED manufacturers IPO applications. Of the remaining 590 unapproved ...
The Ministry of Commerce, Government of China, has fixed wool import quota at 287,000 tons and for wool tops at 80,000 tons for 2015. China has kept its import quota of wool and wool tops unchanged since 2006, even though the country ...
Tags: China Fixes, Wool Import, Textile
Today, EPA announced the availability of up to $5 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from marine and inland water ports located in areas of poor air quality. “Communities ...
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SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded more than $335,000 to the University of California Berkeley and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control for projects to help businesses and ...
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Hi-Tech Engineering Industry under Metal & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) has started supplying the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) with locally manufactured smart electric meters, called It-Plus. The meters are centrally controlled to ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Smart Meters
Robert Bosch LLC has established an education scholarship and employment grant program through the Universal Technical Institute (UTI) Foundation with a gift of $50,000. Scholarships will assist students by funding a portion of their ...
Tags: Bosch, Scholarship Program, Auto Parts
The Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council (TLISC) is partnering with the International Specialised Skills Institute (ISS Institute) to offer two international fellowships for the amount of $12,500 each. These fellowships aim to ...
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