The focus of Sustainable Power Corp. during its research and development phase has been the production of biofuels which are (i) cost efficient beyond anything previously achieved with ethanol or other biofuels and (ii) not reliant on food crops or other viable bio materials for fuel. In addition to use as fuels, Sustainable Power's biofuels products can then be utilized in power plants to generate electricity. Sustainable Power Corp. has achieved these objectives and much more. SSTP is now looking at expansion by placing plants throughout the United States.
M. Richard Cutler, Esq.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Directors M. Richard Cutler joined Sustainable Power as President and Chief Executive Officer in September 2008. Mr. Cutler was previously legal counsel for SSTP and is the principal and founder of Cutler Law Group which he formed in 1996. Mr. Cutler has practiced in the general corporate and securities area since his graduation from law school, representing dozens of public companies. Mr. Cutler is a graduate of Brigham Young University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1981); and Columbia University School of Law (J.D. 1984). Mr. Cutler is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. After law school, Mr. Cutler joined the national law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue where he practiced in the corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions departments. Mr. Cutler subsequently spent five years in the corporate and securities department of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a Dallas law firm. After moving to the west coast, Mr. Cutler was with the Los Angeles office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hayes & Handler, a New York based law firm, where he continued his general business and securities practice. In 1991, Mr. Cutler founded the law firm of Horwitz, Cutler & Beam, where he practiced corporate and securities law for five years before forming his present business, which he moved to Augusta, Georgia in 2002.
Dr. John Byrne, who heads the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, leads a research team devoted to discovering the neurobiology of learning and memory. “We're trying to understand the nuts and bolts of how memory works,” said Byrne, who also is the June and Virgil Waggoner chairman of the department. ... In 1999, Byrne received the Presidential Scholar Award, the highest academic honor a faculty member can receive at the University of Texas-Houston. Peter Davies, vice president of research at University of Texas Medical School at Houston, describes Byrne's research as “simple but elegant experiments.” “I think the thing that characterizes Jack's work is the study of relatively simple animals to research complex processes,” Davies said. “Working in Eric Kandel's lab taught him to study at the molecular level how processes are organized and built to develop learned behavior.” Byrne's original goal for himself was bioengineering. During his graduate studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, he took a job with the department of physiology that called for working in the neuroscience lab. Over time, Byrne felt drawn to the research being conducted there. “It was the excitement of learning how the brain works,” he said. “I thought my training and expertise in engineering could help me understand it.” Byrne went on to pursue a thesis project in invertebrate neurobiology at New York University Medical School. “It turned out, the lab I joined, my mentor and boss, turned out to be Eric Kandel, a Noble Peace Prize winner,” he said. Kandel, a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics, was the 2000 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Byrne later spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with Kandel at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
In 1999, Byrne received the Presidential Scholar Award, the highest academic honor a faculty member can receive at the University of Texas-Houston. Peter Davies, vice president of research at University of Texas Medical School at Houston, describes Byrne's research as “simple but elegant experiments.” “I think the thing that characterizes Jack's work is the study of relatively simple animals to research complex processes,” Davies said. “Working in Eric Kandel's lab taught him to study at the molecular level how processes are organized and built to develop learned behavior.”
Byrne's original goal for himself was bioengineering. During his graduate studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, he took a job with the department of physiology that called for working in the neuroscience lab. Over time, Byrne felt drawn to the research being conducted there. “It was the excitement of learning how the brain works,” he said. “I thought my training and expertise in engineering could help me understand it.”
Byrne went on to pursue a thesis project in invertebrate neurobiology at New York University Medical School. “It turned out, the lab I joined, my mentor and boss, turned out to be Eric Kandel, a Noble Peace Prize winner,” he said. Kandel, a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics, was the 2000 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Byrne later spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with Kandel at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
More than 300,000 veterans and their dependents are enrolled in American institutions of higher education, their numbers swelling as a result of a new, more generous version of the G.I. Bill that Congress passed in 2008. The veterans and their federal benefits are being embraced by community colleges and huge campuses like the University of Texas, as well as by online schools like the University of Phoenix. They are bringing to the esoteric world of academia the ballast of the most real of real-world experiences, along with all the marks of the military existence, from crew cuts to frayed nerves to a platoon approach to social life. Perhaps nowhere is this new wave more striking than at Columbia, which more than any other Ivy League institution has thrown out a welcome mat for returning servicemen and women. There are 210 veterans across the university, integrating a campus whose image-defining moment in the past half-century was of violent protests against the Vietnam War. ... Over the years, with the ebb and flow of wars, the School of General Studies embraced a wider range of students who had taken time off from academia — ballet dancers, professional athletes, even veterans from other countries. “I call them tutus and Uzis because they’re all dancers or kids from the Israeli Army,” said the school’s dean, Peter J. Awn. But with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continuing, the military presence at Columbia is again on the rise. The school now counts 88 veterans with G.I. benefits among the 1,330 students. The rest of the veterans at Columbia are spread across more than a dozen graduate and professional schools. The campus still tilts heavily to the left, with many students displaying the arty, jaded aura befitting their Manhattan surroundings. But now, students largely welcome the vets, who are both admired and considered something of a curiosity. The veterans in the undergraduate program attend classes side by side with fresh-faced 18-year-olds, but do not often socialize with them, preferring to gather instead at their own watering hole. In contrast to their classmates, many — though certainly not all — lack stellar high school records, which is what propelled some of them to the military in the first place.
More than 300,000 veterans and their dependents are enrolled in American institutions of higher education, their numbers swelling as a result of a new, more generous version of the G.I. Bill that Congress passed in 2008. The veterans and their federal benefits are being embraced by community colleges and huge campuses like the University of Texas, as well as by online schools like the University of Phoenix.
They are bringing to the esoteric world of academia the ballast of the most real of real-world experiences, along with all the marks of the military existence, from crew cuts to frayed nerves to a platoon approach to social life.
Perhaps nowhere is this new wave more striking than at Columbia, which more than any other Ivy League institution has thrown out a welcome mat for returning servicemen and women. There are 210 veterans across the university, integrating a campus whose image-defining moment in the past half-century was of violent protests against the Vietnam War. ...
Over the years, with the ebb and flow of wars, the School of General Studies embraced a wider range of students who had taken time off from academia — ballet dancers, professional athletes, even veterans from other countries.
“I call them tutus and Uzis because they’re all dancers or kids from the Israeli Army,” said the school’s dean, Peter J. Awn.
But with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continuing, the military presence at Columbia is again on the rise. The school now counts 88 veterans with G.I. benefits among the 1,330 students. The rest of the veterans at Columbia are spread across more than a dozen graduate and professional schools.
The campus still tilts heavily to the left, with many students displaying the arty, jaded aura befitting their Manhattan surroundings. But now, students largely welcome the vets, who are both admired and considered something of a curiosity.
The veterans in the undergraduate program attend classes side by side with fresh-faced 18-year-olds, but do not often socialize with them, preferring to gather instead at their own watering hole. In contrast to their classmates, many — though certainly not all — lack stellar high school records, which is what propelled some of them to the military in the first place.