"The goal of the U.S. Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) program is to advance the careers and leadership of professional women in the field of clean energy."
Companies are grappling with increasingly far flung networks of suppliers and manufacturers. At the same time, many companies have reduced the number of backup suppliers, in order to cut costs.
"If a company has invested over $200 million in a satellite, they need to be able to assure that it works for that period of time. We really need to improve our method of quantifying and understanding the space environment, so we can better improve design."
"For Hugh Herr, directing MIT’s Biomechatronics Lab could not be a more personal mission: He lost both his own legs in a rock climbing accident, spurring him to lead research and production for a new generation of better prosthetics."
"In the early 20th century, the spread of automobiles and telephone service made it possible to expand and increase the frequency of the household surveys — done in person and by telephone — used to track employment and job losses."
"Seager's new equation makes no assumption that extraterrestrials are intelligent and using radio technology. Instead, she simply works on the idea that life of any type may be present in sufficient abundance to alter the chemical composition of its planet's atmosphere."