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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was supposed to leave last week’s National Clean Energy Summit with a plan, one that he and other politicians could take to the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Experts from across the country converged on Las Vegas armed with a variety of plans, so Reid instead left with dozens of ideas, ranging from world-altering to underwhelming.

Not long ago, Sara Morrison-Soncini, a respiratory therapy student at the College of Southern Nevada, pleaded with government officials not to cut her school’s budget. “It was devastating,” she said. Things changed Monday when the college announced its largest donation ever, $8.2 million from the Engelstad Family Foundation.

As New Jersey stumbled through one of its episodic bouts of dysfunctional state budgeting two years ago, the Nevada Development Authority sensed a chance to pounce on a wounded animal. The state’s business recruiting agency launched a $100,000 ad campaign touting Las Vegas’ indulgent business

Nearly two years ago when a national economic development consultant surveyed the Greater Reno-Tahoe region, 61 percent of business owners and residents said that clean energy technology should be the No. 1 targeted industry for the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada and regional partners to focus our “energy” on.

Researchers from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno are part of a $4.674 million study by Gas Technology Institute to economically convert any leafy or woody biomass into a uniform, densified feedstock that can be easily fed into any thermal gasifer or pryolyzer for conversion into syngas, fuels and value-added chemicals.

“A Stand for Change in Africa” By Martin Fox with The Center for Global Leadership and The Higher Road Initiative Greetings from the Chautauqua Institue and Leadership Week. Today’s morning topic was a great one… “A Stand for Change in Africa.” The speaker, Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, spoke in real world, practical terms of the issues, challenges, and paths for change facing Africans today.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking proposals for high-risk research projects to develop innovative technologies for inspecting, monitoring and evaluating critical components of the nation’s roadways, bridges, and drinking and wastewater systems.

The University of Nevada, Reno will close the books on its 46-year-old Getchell Library next month and begin a new chapter with the opening of its $75.3 million state-of-the-art Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. This is not your grandpa’s (or grandma’s) library, hence the name befitting an era of students who wield PCs and BlackBerrys as if they were electronic appendages.

Nevadans are independent by nature. It is a value we hold dear and that newcomers crave. One area in which we have lost our independence is in energy consumption. Nevadans spend $9 billion to $12 billion per year to purchase coal, natural gas and gasoline/diesel.

AITP Las Vegas has introduced a panel forum on topics relevant to what is challenging Las Vegas IT professionals. Please plan on attending the June forum on “Secrets of Being a CIO”Participants in this month’s panel include: Raymond Perez CIO for University of Southern Nevada Joe Gandiosi IT