Joni Hood teaches 7th grade at Wingate Elementary School, a Bureau of Indian Education school, in New Mexico, and has participated in the QESST Research Experience for Teachers (RET) at UNM the last two years. She uses the stipend she receives from the QESST RET program to purchase Raycatcher cars to use in her classroom […]
The Houston Energy Day on October 18, 2014, attracted over 15,000 people, including students, educators, families and business leaders. QESST team members from University of Houston were one of the more than 70 interactive demonstrations and exhibits teaching students and their families about solar energy technology. […]
For the second year in a row, the QESST team at UNM talked up photovoltaics to the entire 6th grade class at South Valley Academy on October 22, 2014. South Valley is a Title 1 school that serves a heavily Hispanic community. Most students from South Valley will be the first in their families to […]
On Sept. 20, 2014, QESST participated in the annual MESA Regional Workshop at Arizona State University’s Chandler Innovation Center. Forty teachers gathered from both the Central and Southern Regions of Arizona for a MESA Advisors Retreat. QESST’s Joe Carpenter and Tiffany Rowlands paired up and presented a lesson on maximizing the power of a solar […]
This article first appeared on UNSW Australia News – December 8, 2014 UNSW’s solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The world-beating efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in Sydney, before being independently confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) […]
Jen Fuller, a QESST ERC and CSPO (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes) scholar has been awarded a Graduate Education Completion Fellowship for Spring 2015 in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University (ASU). Completion Fellowships are awarded to support a student’s degree completion of a PhD, and are […]
This article first appeared on MIT News – January 13, 2015 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One day in the 1990s, as he was riding home from high school in São Paulo, Tonio Buonassisi looked out the bus window at […]
This article first appeared on AZ Central – January 14, 2015 Ryan Randazzo |, The Republicazcentral.com In a research facility off the Loop 101 in Tempe, about 30 researchers in clean rooms wearing protective suits, gloves and hair nets test some of the most efficient semiconductor materials on the planet for solar panels and LEDs. […]
Posted: October 20, 2014 This article first appeared on ASU News. Even technologies promoted for good environmental reasons can sometimes have unforeseen negative consequences. Such was the case in 1979 when the United States began adding methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) to gasoline to improve combustion and reduce harmful emissions. Water soluble, MTBE ended up seeping […]
At the 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) in Denver, QESST Scholar Jaewon Oh won the Best Student Paper Award for Topical Area 12 on Reliability of PV. Jaewon’s paper on potentially induced degradation (PID) measured the efficacy of system-level PID mitigation based on applying reverse voltage during nighttime to offset daytime module damage. Results […]
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