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• California Energy Commission Awards UCR $1M Grant for Synthetic Fuel Facility
  (November 19, 2009) The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1 million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel.
• UC Riverside Plant Scientist’s Research Spawns New Discoveries Showing How Crops Survive Drought
  (November 18, 2009) Breakthrough research done earlier this year by Sean Cutler's lab has greatly accelerated scientists’ knowledge on how plants and crops can survive difficult environmental conditions such as drought.
• Modernization Affects Children’s Cognitive Development
  (November 16, 2009) Childhood is changing rapidly around the world, and the forces of modernization have a significant impact on shaping the intellectual development of children, researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Pitzer College have found.
• Cultural Impacts of Arctic Exploration Examined
  (November 12, 2009) The cultural impacts of Arctic exploration will be examined in a symposium organized around the documentary "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen" and in a separate conference Nov. 19 and 20.
• 400 Local Students to Compete in Robotics Competition at UCR
  (November 10, 2009) More than 400 students from Riverside and San Bernardino counties will put their skills and imagination to the test at the second annual MESA Robotics Invitational at the Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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