{"id":224,"date":"2009-01-16T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2009-01-18T23:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T07:52:37","slug":"new-100-million-energy-research-institute-at-stanford-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/new-100-million-energy-research-institute-at-stanford-university\/","title":{"rendered":"New $100-Million Energy Research Institute at Stanford University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/Stanford.aspx\">Stanford University<\/a> has raised $100-million to finance a <a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.com\/temp\/email2.php?id=C23nwdnWTjyHZFnQYtjQgDWZ4k8Hj5bK\">new energy research institute<\/a> that will study and devise practical solutions to global energy problems.<span> <\/span>Stanford University president, John L. Hennessy says that the institute\u2019s primary goal will be to help \u201cmake renewable energy cheaper than fossil fuel.\u201d<span> <\/span>Franklin M. (Lynn) Orr, a petroleum-engineering professor and the new director of the institute, explains that energy research is crucial as the world struggles with rising energy costs and climate changes.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the institute is unique, since it does not rely on federal support.<span> <\/span>This will enable the university to determine exactly how it wants to spend the money -- without constraints from industry interests.<span> <\/span>The start-up money, raised from a collection of gifts, will enable the university to hire five new professors and offer new graduate and post-doctorate fellowships.<span> <\/span>Mr. Hennessy said that without the private support, \u201cit could have taken a decade or longer to see to the level of investment that we believe is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"right;\"><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.tm\/?NANZD\"> <\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Stanford University has raised $100-million to finance a new energy research institute that will study and devise practical solutions to global energy problems.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,6],"tags":[105,85,39,103,104,48,102],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-current-events","tag-energy-research-institute","tag-grad-school-admissions","tag-mba-admissions","tag-renewable-energy","tag-stanford","tag-stanford-gsb","tag-sustainable","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}