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Secretary King Announces Recipients of the 2016 President’s Education Awards Program
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- Published: 18 June 2016 18 June 2016
Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Education announced the 2016 President’s Education Awards Program (PEAP) recipients, honoring nearly 3 million students from more than 30,000 public, private and military schools from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands.
Energy Department Invests $82 Million to Advanced Nuclear Technology
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- Published: 18 June 2016 18 June 2016
Washington, DC - Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards in 28 states. In total, 93 projects were selected to receive funding that will help push innovative nuclear technologies toward commercialization and into the market. These awards provide funding for nuclear energy-related research through the Nuclear Energy University Program, Nuclear Science User Facilities, and Nuclear Energy Enabling Technology programs.
2016 Week of Making, highlighting connections between informal STEM environments and learning
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- Written by Robert J. Margetta Robert J. Margetta
- Published: 18 June 2016 18 June 2016
Washington, DC - The 2016 National Week of Making, an event with significant potential for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
Sixth U.S.-Mexico CEO Dialogue Advances Economic Relationship
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- Written by U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Published: 18 June 2016 18 June 2016
Washington, DC - Business leaders from the United States and Mexico concluded the sixth meeting of the U.S.-Mexico CEO Dialogue, a bilateral private sector forum fostering conversation on key economic and trade issues that impact the relationship between the two countries.
Chairman's Summary Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) 10th Anniversary Meeting
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- Written by State Department State Department
- Published: 16 June 2016 16 June 2016
Washington, DC - On June 15-16, 2016, the GICNT commemorated its tenth anniversary, demonstrating its durability as an institution committed to strengthening global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to nuclear terrorism. GICNT partners gathered in The Hague to reaffirm their commitment to its Statement of Principles and its founding mission to conduct multilateral activities that improve partner nations’ plans, policies, procedures and the capacities of partner nations to work together to defeat the shared threat of nuclear terrorism.