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Daniel Spitzberg

Daniel Spitzberg enrolled in a Masters program in the Spring of 2009. His research focuses on prize incentives that organize science communities (think X-Prizes).

Danny believes peer-review collaboration brings environmental research closer to making a real-world impact. Since graduating from McGill University in 2006, he has brought this to bear in projects in the United Nations, TERI India, and here at NYU’s Environmental Health Clinic. He also co-founded (and sold) a company facilitating collaborative group-work. He currently works at The Breakthrough Institute, a high-profile progressive think tank that promotes working solutions for climate policy.

Danny works (travels) as a freelance journalist, covering the often-overlooked value to society of breakthrough science research(ers).

On land, Danny bikes and runs. On water, he rows on the Charles River.

‘Clean energy headquarters’ will relocate to Asia while America … stalls

American progress in energy education and research is getting ridiculous.

Watching the race to lead worldwide energy technology, an editorial in today’s San Francisco Chronicle details the recent gangbuster investments into clean energy technologies in China, Japan, and Korea. The piece doubles the point by mentioning the recent rejection of President Obama’s RE-ENERGYSE initiative (for ‘REgaining our ENERGY Science and Engineering Edge’).

Over 100 groups urge Senate to RE-ENERGYSE kids like Obama Promised


RE-ENERGYSE trains students to take on the world of energy
Today, more than 100 universities, student groups, and professional associations signed a letter drafted by the Breakthrough Institute (read the press release) urging the U.S. Senate to fund RE-ENERGYSE, a program aimed at ‘REgaining our ENERGY Science and Engineering Edge’.

With a name like that, who could say no?

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