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Solar team faces rainy forecast

Published: September 24, 2009
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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailreporter.com Gregory Thomson will set his sights high Friday as his architectural student team preps for a trip to Washington, D.C., to compete in the national Solar Decathlon Competition. Certainly, the assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning has high expectations for his team, but he’ll be [...]

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Published: June 19, 2009
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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com About 15 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee architecture and engineering students have three months to build an energy-efficient house to compete in the national Solar Decathlon Competition. The U.S. Department of Energy contest pits teams from 20 universities in a competition to design and build a functioning, solar-powered house. The students designed the building [...]