{"id":11881,"date":"2012-05-21T18:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:19:13","slug":"director-of-federal-energy-research-agency-tours-uconn-engineering-facility-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/05\/director-of-federal-energy-research-agency-tours-uconn-engineering-facility-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Federal Energy Research Agency Tours UConn Engineering Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the nation\u2019s only federal agency devoted to transformational energy research and development toured UConn\u2019s Center for Clean Energy Engineering at the Mansfield Depot Campus in early May\u00a0during a visit to the University.<\/p>\n<p>Arun Majumdar currently serves as acting under secretary of energy for the U.S. Department of Energy, in addition to overseeing the Advance Research Projects Agency \u2013 Energy or ARPA-E. Created by Congress in 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Majumdar21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11882 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"Majumdar2[1]\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Majumdar21-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a>ARPA-E\u2019s statutory goal is to invest in high-risk, potentially high-reward research to rapidly translate science into breakthrough energy technologies that enhance the United States\u2019 global competitiveness as well as its national, economic, and environmental security.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story, by Colin Poitras, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2012\/05\/director-of-federal-energy-research-agency-tours-uconn-engineering-facility\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u00a0Majumdar (gesturing) toured UConn&#8217;s Center for Clean Energy Engineering on May 4. He was accompanied by Daniel Esty (far left), commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. (Orlando Echevarria\/UConn Photo)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Arunava Majumdar, director of the nation&#8217;s only federal agency devoted to transformational energy research and development, toured UConn&#8217;s Center for Clean Energy Engineering on May 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:38:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224852,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions\/224852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}