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As part of the United Nations Millennium Villages project, Professor Vijay Modi and his research group bring electricity to rural villages in Africa using solar-powered micro-grids with prepaid metering, a system that holds the promise of providing pay-as-you-go electricity for the more than 1.3 billion people in the developing world without access to electricity.
The new Northwest Corner Building opens, serving as a physical and intellectual bridge, linking laboratories and maximizing the ready sharing and exchange of ideas. The building provides research and education space for 250 to 300 interdisciplinary faculty and students in 21 laboratories.
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