EarthSky Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
MIT's Paula Hammond talks about using nanotech to protect against a biological or chemical attack.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
... caught in the HOT lane without a transponder will get a $124 ticket.Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond says tolling will be needed to maintain and expand highways.---Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Under increasing pressure from Port Townsend residents not to build a new 50-car ferry, Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond and ferry...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Ferry director David Moseley and state Department of Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond met Monday with top Port Townsend and Coupeville, Island County, officials and determined that the state would proceed with rebidding the 50-car ferry. The first bid came $9 million over estimates and was not approved.
After Gutenberg (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
... that store charges within their volumes. Professors Angela Belcher, Yet-Ming Chiang , and Paula Hammond (all three pictured) led a team of five additional researchers on this work: MSE graduate students Ki Tae Nam (the lead author), Dong-Wan Kim, Chung-Yi Chiang and Nonglak Meethong, and ChE postdoctoral associate Pil. J. Yoo. A report on the work will appear in the April 7 issue...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
No one disputes that the free passes for retired managers are a negotiated contract benefit for FASPAA retirees, but when FASPAA wrote to Gov. Christine Gregoire to say Anderson was entitled to a ferry pass, it was denied by Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
The state Department of Transportation is expected to reject a bid by Todd Pacific Shipyards to build a new 50-car ferry to serve Port Townsend and Keystone.That decision could be made today."We think we won't accept the bid. It's not a good price," said DOT Secretary Paula Hammond, adding that the state may rebid the contract.Todd was the only bidder last week for what the state is calling...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
... a day through the seven-mile stretch between downtown and Northgate.State Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond wants the express lanes to be controlled from a traffic center in Shoreline.A remote-control gate system would cost about $10 million. Such a system could tailor the express lanes to handle baseball and football game traffic or to respond to accidents that block the main...
Daily Biology News (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
... bonding proteins to many different elements, not only calcium carbonate. With her MIT colleagues Paula Hammond, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Yet-Ming Chiang, professor of materials science and engineering, Angela Belcher grew the first nano-scale, biologically based rechargeable battery. It is made with an engineered virus that latches itself to cobalt oxide. The nano-battery...
