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I N N O V AT I V E R E S E A R C H 2010
NREL
02 R esearch at Colorado School of Mines Kirsten Boyer
08 R esearch News Geology Museum Newmont Mining center Nuclear energy Middle East drought Bioscience milestone Hydrates research Ultracold science Mini fusion Fuel cell award
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39 R esearch NSF Awards 39 Kip Findley 40 Sumit Agarwal 41 Anthony Petrella 41 Cristian Ciobanu
42 R esearch Centers
42 Center for Automation, Robotics and Distributed Intelligence (CARDI) 44 Unconventional Natural Gas Institute (UNGI) 46 Colorado Energy Research Institute (CERI) 48 Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy (KIEM)
40 Petroleum Institute
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Colorado School of Mines
50 A Message from Daniel Yergin,
Chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates