Development & Innovation

The University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering announced this week that it has received three separate gifts of $1 million each. For more, read the article

Two of the donations were from URI alumni and the other from Toray Plastics (America). One of the alumni donors made an anonymous gift and “attributed some of his success to the dedication of the engineering faculty. His gift will fund the Robert S. Haas (WI B ’45) Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering.”

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The AP recently reported on the ceiling lights that can also be a pathway to the Internet. The first lights of their kind are scheduled to be installed this week in six municipal buildings in Minnesota. LVX System is the builder of the lights.

Read the full article for information on how the “clusters of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, can transmit coded messages to special modems attached to computers.”

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A December article in Biodiesel Magazine, details the developing research at Texas A&M University System on “an optical sensor to aid in commercial-scale algae production.”

The sensor system will help optimize high-level commercial production of algae to increase efficiency. Click here, to read more about the research

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