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Hamm Institute Adds Five Fellows

New appointments expand the Institute’s interdisciplinary research capacity across energy systems, infrastructure, technology and resource development

The Hamm Institute for American Energy announced five new Oklahoma State University faculty members have been named Hamm Institute Fellows, joining 10 current Fellows and expanding the program to 15 researchers across the university.

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Hamm Institute Seed Grants at OSU

The Hamm Institute for American Energy at Oklahoma State University awarded Monday $225,000 in seed grant funding, supported by Google.org, to advance nine new research projects listed below and focused on strengthening energy security.

Each project will receive $25,000 to support early stage research on energy markets, firm power, critical minerals, grid resilience and data center infrastructure.

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Ebola Story Built to Be Forgotten

There is an Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo. People are dying. The official account is accurate and incomplete, and the missing parts are the ones that explain everything.

The version in circulation goes like this. There is an outbreak of Ebola in central Africa. Case numbers are climbing. The World Health Organization has declared an emergency. The risk to Western readers is low.

Each of those statements is accurate. Assembled, they form a story shaped to be skimmed and set down. The reporting that fills it in is harder to set down, and it is available to anyone who looks past the wire summary.

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Could Mars Settlers Print Tools?

If humans one day settle Mars, they will need tools and parts to build structures on the planet. Carrying heavy, bulky supplies 34 million miles from Earth would be impractical. A better plan, says Zane Mebruer, a recent graduate of the University of Arkansas (U of A), would be 3D printing items on the Red Planet. His new research, completed while he was an honors undergraduate in mechanical engineering at the U of A, suggests it may be possible.

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