In an effort to honor “women who exemplify the best qualities of the people who have built and sustained Colorado,” the Board of Directors of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame has announced its 2010 inductees.
Included in the ten inductees is Jill S. Tietjen, P.E. (VA A ’76), who was the first female board member and later president of the Rocky Mountain Electrical Leauge. She is also a former president of the Society of Women Engineers, 1991-92.
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President Barack Obama has announced a new STEM initiative and has named Xerox Chief Executive Ursula Burns to lead the initiative “aimed at helping students excel at science, technology, engineering, and math.”
Other initiative leaders include, former Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett, Time Warner Cable Inc. CEO Glenn Britt, and former astronaut Sally Ride. Read news release from AP
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A recent U.S. Dept. of Energy funded research program is working on the “oil producing characteristics of algae.”
The funding will go to Washington University’s Photosynthetic Research Center in St. Louis, MO, and the Advanced Biofuels Systems at the Donald Danforth Plan Science Center.
David Summers (MO B ’65), professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology discusses the importance of coal mines in algae-to-fuel production, “…mines also potentially provide an infrastructure for algae cultivation that does not have to be built… You can isolate the algae from the sun in a mine.” Read more
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