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Makani was founded in 2006 by Saul Griffith, Don Montague, and Corwin Hardham. [2] It received funding as part of Google.org's Renewable Energy cheaper than Coal (RE<C) initiative. [3] "Makani" is Hawaiian for "wind." [4] Corwin Hardham died in 2012 at age 38. [5] On 23 May 2013, Makani Power was acquired by Google and was folded into Google X. [6]
Virginia Tech received a record number of nearly 22,500 applications for the fall 2015 freshman class, an increase of 7.6% from the previous year's 20,897 applications for an overall admissions rate of 65.8%. The typical student offered admission had a high-school grade point average of 4.00, with the middle 50 percent ranging from 3.84 and 4.27.
In 2013, Shoaib Makani, with co-founders Ryan Johns and Obaid Khan, founded KeepTruckin to improve the safety and efficiency of businesses. [9] They began with an electronic logbook app for drivers to record their hours of service (HOS).
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010). Read our methodology here. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014. Schools are ranked based on the percentage of their athletic budget that comes from subsidies.
The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Road to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus.
Virginia Tech's sports teams are called the "Hokies". The word "Hokie" originated in the "Old Hokie" spirit yell created in 1896 by O. M. Stull for a contest to select a new spirit yell when the college's name was changed from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC) to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and the original spirit yell, which ...
After getting into a social media spat with ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Gottlieb then led UW-Green Bay to a 72-70 loss to Michigan Tech, a Division-II school, on Wednesday afternoon.
The Hokies represent Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the NCAA's Atlantic Coast Conference. Although Virginia Tech began competing in intercollegiate football in 1892, [1] the school's official record book generally does not include entries from before the 1950s, as the records from this era are often incomplete and ...