The Diamondback, June 11, 2015

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U submits alcohol proposal PG County to consider plan to serve beer, wine By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer Fans might be able to have a beer while watching the Terps play in Byrd Stadium and Xfinity Center this fall

if the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners approves a university proposal submitted June 1. The university would transition to selling beer and eventually wine at athletic events while observing the first year as a trial, according to an email university President Wallace Loh sent to the university community today. During this trial period, alcohol sales will be restricted to beer at Byrd

Stadium for football and lacrosse games, and Xfinity Center for men’s and women’s basketball. Hawkers will not be going into the seating section selling alcohol and no alcohol will be served in the student seating area, said Joe Mullineaux, Dining Services senior associate director. Officials planned this strategy to beer could be sold at athletic games this fall if the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners See Alcohol, Page 3 approves the university’s proposal to sell alcohol at select sporting events. file photo/the diamondback

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Campus, city vision announced Greater College Park plan includes some short-term projects

Restaurants, retail struggle to find place in College Park’s saturated market

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer During his first day working with the university, Omar Blaik heard complaints from administrators about PowerPoint presentations with lofty goals and no execution. He said he sensed cynicism within the university community toward any development projects and failed to see productive col laboration between the university and the city of College Park. Now, about three years later, Blaik, founder and co-CEO of U3 Advisors, said something fundamental has changed. The city and university have been collaborating on projects and plan to make a series of announcements in the coming weeks as part of the Greater College Park vision, according to a news release that will be sent out today. The vision

By Danielle Ohl @thedbk For The Diamondback It’s Saturday night in College Park, and something is missing. Ca rs wh i z pa s t t he g low i n g green light over Knox Road. Kids and cops hang out on the corner of Knox Road. Bright neon pierces the dark facades lining the Route 1 corridor that borders the university, but the sparkling nightlife is just a little dimmer. Where a comforting Terrapin eatery used to glow invitingly sits a construction site now vacated for the night. Every school year, another business closes its doors, another neon sign turns off for good and another space is open for a business to try to ratsie’s, regarded as a staple restaurant in the city by many alumni, closed April 4. More than five popular College Park restaurants shut down in the past two years, causing officials to examine why problems exist for businesses and how the climate could be improved. sung min kim/the diamondback

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Univ researchers try to limit water use by power plants

Loh pushes partnership with Asia

Dry cooling systems would conserve H2o

Chinese companies, global programs to come to College Park

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer After university President Wallace Loh’s 10-day trip to Asia, the university beefed up its collaborations with South Korean and Chinese universities and companies. Two Chinese biotechnology companies agreed to set up operations at the Maryland International Incubator, located off Route 1 near the University View. The university also established new exchange programs with South Korean and Chinese universities. All of these developments emphasize the university’s commitment to international research and impact, Loh said. The international incubator is home to about a dozen foreign companies that look to expand their products to the American marketplace, said Kai Duh, the incubator’s director. The incubator’s two newest companies, Shanghai Tongji Biological Product Co. Ltd and Ankang Shimao Bio-

office spaces inside the Maryland International Incubator host about 12 businesses from around the world. Two new Chinese biotechnology companies agreed to set up operations in the facility. stephanie natoli/the diamondback technology Co. Ltd, signed contracts with effective dates of June 1 and Aug. 1, respectively. “We are pleased to welcome two new Chinese companies to the Maryland International Incubator and help them connect with new opportunities in Maryland,” Gov. Larry Hogan said in a news release.

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Companies usually stay at the incubator for a few years before feeling comfortable enough to “graduate” and move to other parts of the state or country, Duh said. While the companies are based in College Park, the firms and their See asia, Page 3

Traditional power plants nationwide consume hundreds of billions of gallons of water per day, but two federally funded tea ms led by u n iversity professors aim to create a groundbreaking research study in dry cooling systems to conserve the natural resource. Cooling systems in standard power plants use turbine generators that rely on water sources for power, accounting for bill ions of ga l lons of water use each day. In 2005, electricityproducing power plants consumed about 201 billion gallons of water per day, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Aided by $5 million in funding from the U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, university mechanical engineering professors Bao Yang and Michael Ohadi hope to change that.

The university projects are two of 23 nationwide funded by ARPA-E’s Advanced Research in Dry Cooling program through a $60 million investment. ARID targets research in dry cooling systems, which use air rather than water to cool. States with limited access to fresh water sources, such as California and Nevada, create problems for power plants that rely on water to function, especially in the summer months, Yang said. To combat this, Yang hopes to use waste heat from the power plant to produce cooling to disperse the steam out of the turbine. “We want to cost-effectively and efficiently reduce waste heat with different cooling technologies,” Yang said. “Professor Ohadi and I both proposed a different approach, but we have the same goal: to save water in power plants.” Yang’s project, “Novel Microemu l sion Absor pt ion System s for Supplementa l Power Pl a nt Cooling,” uses a microemulsion liquid absorbent, which university researchers discovered after 10 years of research and thousands

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