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On 4/4/2025 8:05:39 PM, an earthquake occurred in Papua New Guinea potentially affecting 30 thousand in 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 7.2M, Depth:33km.
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Under Secretary Noem, DHS is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse
WASHINGTON — FEMA is ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and canceling all BRIC applications from Fiscal Years 2020-2023. If grant funds have not been distributed to states, tribes, territories and local communities, funds will be immediately returned either to the Disaster Relief Fund or the U.S. Treasury.
Statement Attributable to a FEMA Spokesperson:
“The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters. Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, we are committed to ensuring that Americans in crisis can get the help and resources they need.”
Approximately $882 million of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year. The 2021 law made $1 billion available for BRIC over five years, $133 million to date has been provided for about 450 applications. FEMA estimates more than $3.6 billion will remain in the Disaster Relief Fund to assist with disaster response and recovery for communities and survivors.
Ending this program will help ensure that grant funding aligns with the President’s Executive Orders and Secretary Noem’s direction and best support states and local communities in disaster planning, response and recovery.
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Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Railway Transportation Engineering
The Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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The Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks highly qualified candidates to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor full-time faculty position. Exceptional applicants in all areas relevant to Rail Transportation and Engineering will be considered. Some example areas of interest are Railway Systems, Operation, and Safety with expertise in one or more of the following areas: rail capacity analysis and modeling, rail network planning and analysis, rail freight and passenger transportation operation, advanced train control, computer-aided railway traffic control, rail system and operational optimization, automated/autonomous train operating systems, train operating mechanics, train dynamics including wheel/rail interface, railway energy efficiency and motive power, integrated passenger and freight railway system safety and risk analysis, railway terminal system design and operation, rail transit, high-speed
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Job ID: 255421
Post-Doc to Tenure Track Fellow: Supercritical CO2 Cycle Design, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Dayton <!– ATTACHED PICTURES: –>
The transition from graduate research assistant to tenure-track professor requires significant professional growth as both a technical researcher and educator; growth that is best nurtured within a team of supportive mentors with access to research infrastructure and committed graduate and undergraduate research assistants. The University of Dayton Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is seeking postdoctoral fellows with a desire to investigate and/or prior experience in experimentation of sCO2 cycles and/or infrastructure to join colleagues responding to the cross-disciplinary research and development
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