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Innovative Central PA Collaboration Model Expands To West Virginia
Harrisburg, Pa//10.19.11-- The Innovation Transfer Network (ITN), a group consisting of sixteen small colleges and universities collaborating with business, has signed an agreement with TechConnectWV to provide assistance in developing a plan that will begin to bring faculty research and business needs together in West Virginia.
University Receives NSF Grant to Support Women in Science
The National Science Foundation has awarded Shippensburg University, in cooperation with three other organizations, a grant to promote the recruitment, retention and advancement of women academics in STEM disciplines.
STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The $749,506 grant is for the PA STEM University Partnership for the Advancement of Academic Women (PA STEMUP) program. Partnering with Shippensburg are Elizabethtown College, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) and the Innovation Transfer Network (ITN).
USA Today Highlights Local Biz Game Face-the-Waste
"Green Games Gain in Popularity"
By Mike Snider, USA Today, 8/18/11
The fate of Earth is often at stake in popular video games, such as the sci-fi space sagas Halo and Mass Effect. But a growing movement of ecologically conscious games deals with the real destiny of our actual habitat.
Read more: USA Today Highlights Local Biz Game Face-the-Waste
Sign Up for the Summer Cohort @ Ben Franklin's TechCelerator!
CARLISLE, PA
Ben Franklin Technology Partners/CNP and the Capital Region Economic Development Corporation (CREDC), the economic development arm of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber, are inviting aspiring area entrepreneurs to “take a seat” in the July Cohort of Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator located in the HRC-CREDC Business Incubator in Carlisle.
Applications are being accepted now!
A Little Bit on Nanotechnology
Source - Reading Eagle - 3/31/11 - By David A. Kostival
Executives of MinusNine Technologies, Birdsboro, explain what they do
As part of a nanotechnology conference, executives of a local company shared how MinusNine Technologies benefits from the technology.
Chief Executive Officer Hans Frederick and Chief Financial Officer Jon Goodspeed of MinusNine Technologies, Birdsboro, spoke Wednesday during an informal discussion with local nanotech companies.
"Accelerate" Your Tech-Based Business Ideas
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania and the Capital Region Economic Development Corporation (CREDC) are inviting eligible, new start-ups to become part of the Ben Franklin TechCelerator, a new, one-on-one business support service program for emerging tech-based companies located in or near Carlisle, PA.
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