(U-WIRE) BOSTON — The commuters may be worn out, the students may be haggard and the tourists may be tired from walking the Freedom Trail, but the nearly nonstop crowds that move through Boston’s subway stations and public buildings have more energy to offer than they realize — energy two graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think may help bring Boston and the rest of the world’s cities one step closer to clean energy.

(U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. — These days, oysters are almost as rare as the shiny pearls that hide inside them. Hurricane Katrina had drastic impacts on the Louisiana seafood staple. And John Supan, a Louisiana State University adjunct professor, is researching ways to not only increase oyster populations but make them meatier year round.

(U-WIRE) GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s sweet sugarcane industry will feed the University of Florida’s newest venture into environmentally safe ethanol production.

(U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. — On Aug. 29, 2006, the Dazets’ Lakeview, New Orleans house was an anomaly — many others unlike houses which remain damaged a contractor was working on the day marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

(U-WIRE) OXFORD, Miss. — Two years after Hurricane Katrina, officials on the Gulf Coast say the rebuilding and recovery efforts are slowly proceeding.
Despite volunteer efforts and community morale, rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf Coast is a slow process, said Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway.

(U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY — Editor’s note: This article is the fourth in a four-part series about the University of Utah’s reaction to the Crandall Canyon Mine cave-in in Huntington, Utah.