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Eric M. Leibensperger, a graduate student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was recently awarded one of the EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellowships. The award will help fund his research, which focuses on two main areas: the effect of climate change on air quality in the United States and the effect of U.S. aerosols on the global climate...
...terms of our backyard,” said Daniel J. Jacob, a professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering and Leibensperger’s thesis adviser. “One thing that Eric’s work has established is that with climate change you have more stagnant air...
...second such negotiation in the last two months. After the meeting and in a world of frozen credit lines, it was announced that Russia would lend Venezuela over a billion dollars to fund purchases of Russian weaponry in the next few years, which complements the joint naval and air exercises agreed upon this summer. Moreover, the two countries signed deals that allow Kremlin-controlled energy behemoths Gazprom and Rosneft to invest in Venezuela, less than two years after Chavez nationalized all assets from European and American companies in the country...
...After three years in the Air Force, Schieffer returned to his college job as a reporter for a radio station, later joining the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a police reporter...
...failed to convict the 1930s mobster for racketeering and murder charges, he was finally run in for tax evasion. Griffiths says arms traffickers have one obvious vulnerability: their need to ship arms on boats and planes, most of which require registration. When the E.U. introduced strict safety standards for air-cargo carriers two years ago, its leaders weren't thinking of arms dealers. Yet of the scores of companies they have since cited for violating safety rules, about 80 have been named in U.N. and human-rights reports as known arms shippers. "About 53 companies have been forced to close...