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  “A director who disagrees with CFPB’s mission is likely to deprioritize some of the things that a Biden administration might have made a priority,” said Nicholas Bagley, professor of law, on the prospect that Donald Trump could appoint a new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who shares Republicans’ disdain for the administrative state.

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  “The memory of a computer is limited to 100 degrees Celsius. So, it’s not just that we engineered a cooler or we played some engineering trick. But we really rethought what are some of the physical processes that we can harness,” said Yiyang Li, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, whose team has developed computer storage technology to process data in high temperature environments.

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  “This is the fifth-best solution, but solutions one through four are not viable for a variety of different reasons. Five is feasible. So, let’s do it,” said Johanna Mathieu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who is helping the city of Ann Arbor create a sustainable energy utility, which may not be the most technically elegant model for energy infrastructure, but is the city’s best bet for quickly ramping up clean energy generation.

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