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'We must succeed in meeting this challenge'
Top officers of energy companies meet in St. Louis Nov. 2 to discuss the National Research Council's roadmap for the energy future
Oct. 27,
2009 --
America has the potential to solve its energy crisis over the next decade, but doing so will require immediate investment in clean energy technologies, says Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and vice chair of a National Resource Council report on America's energy challenges. The report will be the topic of a symposium to be held from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, in the May Auditorium in Simon Hall on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis.
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Living Building Challenge
What could be one of North America's greenest buildings opened May 29
June 2,
2009 --
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| The Living Learning Center |
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An opening ceremony for what could be one of North America's greenest buildings — a flagship building on the cutting edge of sustainable design and energy efficiency — was held May 29 at Washington University in St. Louis' new Living Learning Center at the university's Tyson Research Center. The Living Learning Center is a 2,900-square-foot facility built to meet the Living Building Challenge — designed to be the most stringent green building rating system in the world — of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council (CRGBC). No building has met its standard yet, but the Living Learning Center is in the running to be the first in North America.
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Living Building Challenge
What could be one of North America's greenest buildings set to open May 29
May 28,
2009 --
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| Photos courtesy Dan Hellmuth, Hellmuth Bicknese Architects |
| Tyson's own Eastern Red Cedar used for exterior siding |
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An opening ceremony for what could be one of North America's greenest buildings — a flagship building on the cutting edge of sustainable design and energy efficiency — will take place at 4 p.m. May 29 at Washington University in St. Louis' new Living Learning Center at the university's Tyson Research Center. The Living Learning Center is a 2,900-square-foot facility built to meet the Living Building Challenge — designed to be the most stringent green building rating system in the world — of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council (CRGBC). No building has met its standard yet, but the Living Learning Center is in the running to be the first in North America.
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Energy consortium created
Washington University research to advance clean coal technology
Dec. 2,
2008 -- Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced during a Dec. 2 news conference the establishment of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization. The university has dedicated more than $60 million in financial resources during the past year to advance education and research related to energy, environment and sustainability. The new consortium will receive additional support in the form of research partnership commitments of $5 million each from Arch Coal and Peabody Energy and $2 million from Ameren, to be paid over five years. The consortium's goal is to bring university researchers, industries, foundations and government organizations together to research clean coal technology, making St. Louis the nation's center for clean coal research.
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Economics of ethanol
Biofuel costs, benefits are focus of public forum, Nov. 14
Nov. 11,
2008 --
The profitability of corn ethanol processing, the costs and benefits of ethanol as a fuel source, the impact of the ethanol boom on rural America and the future of the biofuel industry will be among topics explored at a free public forum on the economics of ethanol to be held on campus from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 14.
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Set energy goals and reach them
Biofuels center director: Next president should take page from JFK
Nov. 5,
2008 --
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| Wind power is one practical alternative to petroleum. |
The director of a sustainable energy research center at Washington University in St. Louis is challenging President-elect Barack Obama to set goals in energy research and implementation. "I would like to see the next president of the United States set a similar goal to President Kennedy's from 1961 — to put a man on the moon and to bring him back to Earth by the end of the decade," says Himadri B. Pakrasi, Ph.D., the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Energy in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall
Groundbreaking held for new building devoted to energy and environmental engineering research, education
Oct. 29,
2008 --
A groundbreaking ceremony for a new energy, environmental engineering and biomedical engineering building on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis was held Wednesday, Oct. 29, on the parking lot adjacent to Whitaker Hall, near the corner of Skinker Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway. The building, which will be named in honor of Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer, will be east of and adjoining to Whitaker Hall, home of the biomedical engineering department.
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Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall
Groundbreaking set for new building devoted to energy and environmental engineering research, education
Oct. 29,
2008 -- A groundbreaking ceremony for a new energy and environmental engineering building on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis will be held Wednesday, Oct. 29, on the parking lot adjacent to Whitaker Hall, near the corner of Skinker Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m., with the groundbreaking scheduled for 1:45 p.m. The building, which will be named in honor of Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer, will be east of and adjoining to Whitaker Hall, home of the biomedical engineering department.
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Set goals and reach them
Biofuels center director: Next president should take page from JFK
Oct. 13,
2008 --
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| Wind power is one practical alternative to petroleum. |
The director of a sustainable energy research center at Washington University in St. Louis is challenging the next president of the United States to set goals in energy research and implementation. "I would like to see the next president of the United States set a similar goal to President Kennedy's from 1961 — to put a man on the moon and to bring him back to Earth by the end of the decade," says Himadri B. Pakrasi, Ph.D., the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Energy in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Finding the work horse
Benchmark cyanobacterium sequenced could be cheap renewable energy source
Sept. 17,
2008 --
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| Unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria |
A team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that manages two disparate operations — photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation — in one little cell during two distinct cycles daily.
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