http://itecsinsider.com Blog providing links to government opportunities, government contracts, recovery act funding and stimulus information. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:18:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (DOE, September 7, 2010) Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories is investing $8.5 million for four projects that have reached Stage III of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) program.  These investments will be matched more than ... http://itecsinsider.com/?p=17003 By Christi Parsons (LA Times, September 5, 2010) President Obama will ask Congress to pass a $100-billion plan to expand and permanently extend the tax credits for businesses that invest in research and development, part of a larger plan for spurring the economy that he is to unveil in greater detail ... http://itecsinsider.com/?p=17000 (ScienceDaily, September 6, 2010) — Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process. ... http://itecsinsider.com/?p=16997 Discovery Research K-12 – The Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) program seeks to enable significant advances in student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines. Projects funded under this solicitation begin with a research question or hypothesis about how to improve preK-12 STEM learning and teaching and then develop, implement, ... http://itecsinsider.com/?p=16877 Fall 2011 EPA Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships For Graduate Environmental Study – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), invites applications for the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships for graduate environmental study for master’s and doctoral level students.  The STAR Fellowship program ... http://itecsinsider.com/?p=16985