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USCIS to Celebrate Independence Day by Welcoming 14,000 New Citizens WASHINGTON—This year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will celebrate the 242nd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and our nation’s birthday, by welcoming more than 14,000 new citizens in nearly 175 naturalization ceremonies between June 28 and July 10.

The Independence Day activities will kick off with a naturalization ceremony at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas on June 28. During this event, USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna will deliver congratulatory remarks to 37 new Americans.

“The naturalization ceremony marks the end of the journey toward citizenship, just as it marks the start of new lives as American citizens,” said Director Cissna. “We are humbled to be able to share in this moment of pride, joy, and personal triumph.”

USCIS is committed to promoting awareness and understanding of citizenship by offering a variety of free citizenship preparation resources for applicants and teachers, including materials like the Establishing Independence (PDF, 2.41 MB)lesson plan in the Citizenship Resource Center. Immigrant-serving organizations can register to receive a free Civics and Citizenship Toolkit to help lawful permanent residents prepare for naturalization.

The importance of the Declaration of Independence and Independence Day in the United States is reflected in several places on the naturalization test. Prospective citizens may see them in six different questions on the civics test, including, “What did the Declaration of Independence do?” and “When do we celebrate Independence Day?” To help applicants practice for the civics test, download the USCIS mobile app, USCIS: Civics Test Study Tools, which is currently available for download in the Google Play and iTunes stores. In addition to being the only official USCIS Civics Test application, the app keeps old tests for review, has a game to challenge your civics knowledge, and lists all 100 questions and answers that could be asked in the actual civics test.

To view a list of highlighted 2018 Independence Day-themed naturalization ceremonies, please visit uscis.gov/news.

We invite new citizens and their families and friends to share their experiences and photos from the ceremonies on social media using the hashtags #newUScitizen and #4thofJuly.

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The 2018 awardees in engineering and computer science hail from 120 institutions across 43 states.

July 2, 2018 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested $150 million in 307 early career engineering and computer science faculty to advance fields from intelligent infrastructure and collaborative robots to secure communications and brain-related technologies.

Over the next five years, each researcher will receive up to $500,000 from NSF to build a firm scientific footing for solving challenges and scaling new heights for the nation, as well as serve as academic role models in research and education.

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NSF awards more than $150 million to early career researchers in engineering and computer science The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program, which extends across all the agency’s science and engineering directorates, allows promising junior faculty to pursue cutting-edge research while simultaneously advancing excellence in education.

This year’s awardees in engineering and computer science hail from 120 institutions across 43 states. In addition, more than 18 percent of awards are to grantees in jurisdictions eligible for Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which helps traditionally underserved areas enhance their research competitiveness and strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and capacity.

“We’re delighted to support this cadre of early career researchers as they embark on long-term research and education activities that will advance the frontiers of our field,” said Erwin Gianchandani, acting assistant director for NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate.

“These early career faculty will catalyze new breakthroughs in computer and information science and engineering that will transform our nation in the years to come.”

More than 20 percent of engineering and computer science CAREER awardees are women and about 8 percent are from underrepresented groups, according to self-reported proposal data. These percentages are higher than those of U.S. engineering and computer science faculty overall.

NSF awarded more than 47 percent of these CAREER awards to first-time principal investigators.

The awardees bring a diverse range of scientific and engineering thinking and expertise, essential for creating new knowledge and innovations to address complex problems.

NSF funding for these CAREER awards comes from NSF’s ENG and CISE directorates, with additional support from the NSF EPSCoR program. Visit the NSF award database for the list of Fiscal Year 2018 NSF CAREER grantees in ENG and CISE. Visit the NSF award database for the list of FY 2018 NSF ENG CAREER grantees and the list of FY 2018 NSF CISE CAREERgrantees.

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Researchers Solve Major Challenge in Mass Production of Low-Cost Solar Cells Spray Coating Could Make Perovskite an Inexpensive Alternative to Silicon for Solar Panels, Explains NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s André D. Taylor June 21, 2018

A model of a perovskite solar cell, showing its different layers. Professor André D. Taylor has been working to solve fabrication challenges with perovskite cells.

BROOKLYN, New York, Thursday, June 21, 2018 – An international team of university researchers today reports solving a major fabrication challenge for perovskite cells — the intriguing potential challengers to silicon-based solar cells.

These crystalline structures show great promise because they can absorb almost all wavelengths of light. Perovskite solar cells are already commercialized on a small scale, but recent vast improvements in their power conversion efficiency (PCE) are driving interest in using them as lowcost alternatives for solar panels.

In the cover article published online today for the June 28, 2018 issue of Nanoscale, a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the research team reveals a new scalable means of applying a critical component to perovskite cells to solve some major fabrication challenges. The researchers were able to apply the critical electron transport layer (ETL) in perovskite photovoltaic cells in a new way — spray coating — to imbue the ETL with superior conductivity and a strong interface with its neighbor, the perovskite layer.

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Researchers Solve Major Challenge in Mass Production of Low-Cost Solar Cells The research is led by André D. Taylor, an associate professor in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, with Yifan Zheng, the first author on the paper and a Peking University researcher. Co-authors are from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University.

Most solar cells are “sandwiches” of materials layered in such a way that when light hits the cell’s surface, it excites electrons in negatively charged material and sets up an electric current by moving the electrons toward a latticework of positively charged “holes.” In perovskite solar cells with a simple planar orientation called p-i-n (or n-i-p when inverted), the perovskite constitutes the light-trapping intrinsic layer (the “i” in p-i-n) between the negatively charged ETL and a positively charged hole transport layer (HTL).

When the positively and negatively charged layers are separated, the architecture behaves like a subatomic game of Pachinko in which photons from a light source dislodge unstable electrons from the ETL, causing them to fall toward the positive HTL side of the sandwich. The perovskite layer expedites this flow. While perovskite makes for an ideal intrinsic layer because of its strong affinity both for holes and electrons and its quick reaction time, commercial-scale fabrication has proved challenging partly because it is difficult to effectively apply a uniform ETL layer over the crystalline surface of the perovskite.

The researchers chose the compound [6,6]-phenyl-C(61)-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) because of its track record as an ETL material and because PCBM applied in a rough layer offers the possibility of improved conductivity, less-penetrable interface contact, and enhanced light trapping.

“Very little research has been done on ETL options for the planar p-i-n design,” said Taylor. “The key challenge in planar cells is, how do you actually assemble them in a way that doesn’t destroy the adjacent layers?”

The most common method is spin casting, which involves spinning the cell and allowing centripetal force to disperse the ETL fluid over the perovskite substrate. But this technique is limited to small surfaces and results in an inconsistent layer that lowers the performance of the solar cell. Spin casting is also inimicable to commercial production of large solar panels by such methods as roll-toroll manufacture, for which the flexible p-i-n planar perovskite architecture is otherwise well suited.

The researchers instead turned to spray coating, which applies the ETL uniformly across a large area and is suitable for manufacturing large solar panels. They reported a 30 percent efficiency gain over other ETLs – from a PCE of 13 percent to over 17 percent – and fewer defects.

Added Taylor, “Our approach is concise, highly reproducible, and scalable. It suggests that spray coating the PCBM ETL could have broad appeal toward improving the efficiency baseline of

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Researchers Solve Major Challenge in Mass Production of Low-Cost Solar Cells perovskite solar cells and providing an ideal platform for record-breaking p-i-n perovskite solar cells in the near future.”

The Foundation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Foundation for Innovation Research Groups of the NSFC, the Chinese Scholarship Council, and the U.S. National Science Foundation provided funding for the study.

“Spray Coating of the PCBM Electron Transport Layer Significantly Improves the Efficiency of p-i-n Planar Perovskite Solar Cells” is at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/nr/c8nr01763h.

About the New York University Tandon School of Engineering

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering dates to 1854, the founding date for both the New York University School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (widely known as Brooklyn Poly). A January 2014 merger created a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences, rooted in a tradition of invention and entrepreneurship and dedicated to furthering technology in service to society. In addition to its main location in Brooklyn, NYU Tandon collaborates with other schools within NYU, one of the country’s foremost private research universities, and is closely connected to engineering programs at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai.

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Could this material enable autonomous vehicles to come to market sooner and make them safer?

A new material developed by scientists at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the University of Wisconsin along with researchers from Air Force Research Laboratories, University of Missouri, and J.A. Woollam Co. Inc, might show promise for such infrared detection applications as autonomous vehicles, emergency services and even manufacturing.

The research group of Jayakanth Ravichandran, an assistant professor of materials sciences at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been studying a new class of materials called chalcogenide perovskites. Among these materials is Barium titanium sulfide (BTS), a material rediscovered and prepared in large crystal form by Shanyuan Niu, a doctoral candidate in the Materials Science program at USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Ravichandran’s research group collaborated with the research groups of Mikhail Kats, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Han Wang, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and electrophysics in USC’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering to study how infrared light interacts with this material. These researchers discovered that this material interacted differently with light in two different directions.

“This is a significant breakthrough, which can affect many infrared applications,” says Ravichandran.

This direction dependent interaction with light is characterized by an optical property called birefringence.

In simple terms, birefringence can be viewed as light moving at different speeds in two directions in a material. Much like sunglasses with polarized lenses block glare, BTS has the ability to block or slow down light depending on the direction in which it travels in the material. The researchers maintain that their material, barium titanium sulfide, has the highest birefringence among known crystals.

“The birefringence is larger than that of any known solid material, and it has low losses across the important long-wave infrared spectrum,” says Kats.

How BTS could improve infrared vision: The BTS material can be used to construct a sensor to filter out certain polarizations of light to achieve better contrast of the image. It could also help filter light coming from different directions to enable sensing of a remote object’s features. This could be particularly important for improving infrared vision used in autonomous vehicles, which need to see the entire landscape around them even in low visibility

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“The hope is that in the future, a BTS-enhanced sensor in a car would function as retinas do to the human body,” says Niu. The authors believe these infrared-responsive materials can extend human perception. Beyond autonomous vehicles, there are other possible heat sensing or temperature measurement applications.

One application could be in the creation of imaging tools used by firefighters to generate an instant temperature map outside a burning building to assess where a fire is spreading and where emergency responders need to rescue trapped individuals.

At present, the cost of infrared equipment makes it too expensive for all fire stations to have such equipment. BTS, which is made of elements readily abundant in earth crust—could make infrared equipment more affordable and effective. In addition, such materials are safer for the user, the environment and easier to dispose than the materials that are used now, which contain hazardous elements such as mercury and cadmium.

These materials could also be useful in devices that sense harmful molecules, gases, even biological systems. The applications range from heat sensing, pollution monitoring to medicine.

“To date, the constraint of existing mid-IR materials is a big bottleneck to translate many of these technologies,” says USC’s Wang.The researchers hope that intense research in this area will make several of these technologies a reality in the near future.

The research on BTS is documented in “Giant optical anisotropy in a quasi-1D crystal” featured in Nature Photonics.

The work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-16-1-0335 and FA955015RXCOR198), the Link Foundation Energy Fellowship, the Office of Naval Research (N00014-161-2556), the Army Research Office (W911NF-16-1-0435), the National Science Foundation (ECCS1653870), the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences through the S3TEC EFRC (DE-SC0001299/ DE- FG02-09ER46577), the Department of Energy (DE-FG02–07ER46376), and made use of facilities at Center for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis at University of Southern California and Irvine Materials Research Institute at University of California, Irvine.

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Water Use Across the United States Declines to Levels Not Seen Since 1970s JUNE 19, 2018

Reductions in water use first observed in 2010 continue, show ongoing effort towards “efficient use of critical water resources.”

Water use across the country reached its lowest recorded level in 45 years. According to a new USGS report, 322 billion gallons of water per day (Bgal/d) were withdrawn for use in the United States during 2015. This represents a 9 percent reduction of water use from 2010 when about 354 Bgal/d were withdrawn and the lowest level since before 1970 (370 Bgal/d).

“The downward trend in water use shows a continued effort towards efficient use of critical water resources, which is encouraging,” said Tim Petty, assistant secretary for Water and Science at the Department of the Interior. “Water is the one resource we cannot live without, and when it is used wisely, it helps to ensure there will be enough to sustain human needs, as well as ecological and environmental needs.”

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In 2015, more than 50 percent of the total withdrawals in the United States were accounted for by 12 states (in order of withdrawal amounts): California, Texas, Idaho, Florida, Arkansas, New York, Illinois, Colorado, North Carolina, Michigan, Montana, and Nebraska.

Total water withdrawals by category and by State from west to east, 2015 Â [1 Bgal/d = 1,000 million gallons per day].

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Water Use Across the United States Declines to Levels Not Seen Since 1970 California accounted for almost 9 percent of the total withdrawals for all categories and 9 percent of total freshwater withdrawals. Texas accounted for about 7 percent of total withdrawals for all categories, predominantly for thermoelectric power generation, irrigation, and public supply.

Florida had the largest share of saline withdrawals, accounting for 23 percent of the total in the country, mostly saline surface-water withdrawals for thermoelectric power generation. Texas and California accounted for 59 percent of the total saline groundwater withdrawals in the United States, mostly for mining.

“The USGS is committed to providing comprehensive reports of water use in the country to ensure that resource managers and decision makers have the information they need to manage it well,” said USGS director Jim Reilly. “These data are vital for understanding water budgets in the different climatic settings across the country.”

For the first time since 1995, the USGS estimated consumptive use for two categories — thermoelectric power generation and irrigation. Consumptive use is the fraction of total water withdrawals that is unavailable for immediate use because it is evaporated, transpired by plants, or incorporated into a product.

“Consumptive use is a key component of the water budget. It’s important to not only know how much water is being withdrawn from a source, but how much water is no longer available for other immediate uses,” said USGS hydrologist Cheryl Dieter.

The USGS estimated a consumptive use of 4.31 Bgal/d, or 3 percent of total water use for thermoelectric power generation in 2015. In comparison, consumptive use was 73.2 Bgal/d, or 62 percent of total water use for irrigation in 2015.

Water withdrawn for thermoelectric power generation was the largest use nationally at 133 Bgal/d, with the other leading uses being irrigation and public supply, respectively. Withdrawals declined for thermoelectric power generation and public supply, but increased for irrigation. Collectively, these three uses represented 90 percent of total withdrawals.

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Water Use Across the United States Declines to Levels Not Seen Since 1970 A number of factors can be attributed to the 18 percent decline in thermoelectric-power withdrawals, including a shift to power plants that use more efficient cooling-system technologies, declines in withdrawals to protect aquatic life, and power plant closures.

As it did in the period between 2005 and 2010, withdrawals for public supply declined between 2010 and 2015, despite a 4 percent increase in the nation’s total population. The number of people served by public-supply systems continued to increase and the public-supply domestic per capita use declined to 82 gallons per day in 2015 from 88 gallons per day in 2010. Total domestic per capita use (public supply and self-supplied combined) decreased from 87 gallons per day in 2010 to 82 gallons per day in 2015.

The USGS is the world’s largest provider of water data and the premier water research agency in the federal government.

Contacts Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Office of Communications and Publishing 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192 United States Phone: 703-648-4460

Mia Drane-Maury Public Affairs Specialist Office of Communications and Publishing Email: mdrane-maury@usgs.gov Phone: 703-648-4408

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Unified Government Approach Key to Bringing Loved Ones Home to Their Families

This week marks the third anniversary of the Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, a multi-agency team based at FBI Headquarters that represents the government’s unified approach to recovering American hostages abroad—and its commitment to support the families whose loved ones are being held captive.

Since the White House established the fusion cell on June 24, 2015—along with positions including a special presidential envoy for hostage affairs and a family engagement coordinator—the U.S. government has sought to “speak with one voice” regarding hostage matters, said FBI Special Agent Robert Saale, director of the fusion cell. “That effort has been extremely beneficial.”

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Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell Marks Third Anniversary In the past three years, more than 180 American citizens—kidnapped for ransom by criminal groups or held by foreign terrorist organizations—have been recovered. And family members, who often endure months and sometimes years of anguish and uncertainty regarding the fate of a loved one held captive, are now a central focus of the fusion cell.

“Not a week goes by without the kidnapping of an American citizen abroad,” Saale said. Most are carried out for ransom by criminal groups and are quickly resolved. But terrorist groups holding U.S. citizens can take years to resolve, and efforts to recover individuals who have been held captive for long periods continue around the clock.

The fusion cell consists of nearly 50 individuals from the FBI, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, and other agencies whose full-time job and single focus is bringing hostages home safely and sharing information with their families. A critical part of that effort is the Family Engagement Team, established at the same time as the fusion cell.

“What we heard from families prior to 2015 was that the government’s response seemed uncoordinated and family support was inconsistent,” said Kathryn Turman, who leads the FBI’s Victim Services Division and who was a member of the White House policy review team that advocated for new procedures.

“Families often had to navigate the process on their own and were dissatisfied with the amount of information that was shared by officials,” she said.

“Sometimes they were only able to get information from third parties and not from their own government.”

“Today, we have transparent relationships with families in terms of sharing information and intelligence and engaging in a back-and-forth dialogue,” Saale said. “There has been a 180-degree change in how the families are treated, and we are seeing very positive feedback.”

“At the end of the day,” Turman added, “the families have to live with the consequences of our actions.

So we need to give them a front-row seat to what the U.S. government is doing to bring their loved one home. It’s really important for them to know that they have been part of the process and to see that there are people who come to work every day with the exclusive mission to get their loved one back.”

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Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell Marks Third Anniversary The fusion cell consists of nearly 50 individuals from the FBI, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, and other agencies whose full-time job and single focus is bringing hostages home safely and sharing information with their families.

As the fusion cell evolves, it is expanding its efforts to be more proactive in hostage prevention. That includes doing outreach to groups that often travel overseas to dangerous regions, such as faith-based institutions, non-governmental organizations, and journalists. “We talk to them about how to avoid being taken hostage, areas to avoid, and, if something does happen, who to contact,” Saale said.

Another proactive effort is identifying and disrupting captor networks. Some terrorist groups “derive 100 percent of their revenue through ransom payments,” Saale explained. “It’s in everyone’s best interest to go after these terrorists and deny them a source of funding.”

When the fusion cell began operations three years ago, officials talked about a “whole-of-government approach,” Saale said. “Now we are even more inclusive. We are willing to talk and work with anyone, as long as it is ethical and legal, to help get our folks home. Today we talk about a whole-of-society approach.”

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