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Get to Know: SMIT, Solar Power Ivy Planet Green
12/05/2008
SMIT was founded as a start-up company in the Fall of 2005 by brother and sister team, Samuel & Teresita Cochran. Located in Brooklyn, New York, the duo set straight to work on their first project, GROW, which is a system of solar/wind powered paneling disguised to look like ivy leaves. >>
Building affordable solar water heaters
10/17/2008
(UWIRE) -- In spring 2007, University of California Berkeley Energy and Resources Group professor Ashok Gadgil challenged students in his Design for Sustainable Communities class to come up with an affordable and efficient solar water heater that could be used in low-income households. >>
A coconut is a terrible thing to waste, Baylor researchers believe
09/11/2008
WACO--Within a 40-degree band around the equator lie some of the poorest countries in the world--countries that lack the technology to make full use of natural resources. >>
Student's vest idea has legs The Republican
05/12/2008
AMHERST - Since he got word Thursday evening that he was the winner of the University of Massachusetts Technology Innovation Challenge, Brian A. Mullen said Friday he hasn't been able to stop smiling. >>
Bethlehem innovators to get awards pennlive.com
05/02/2008
EcoTech Marine, Inc. will receive the "product innovation" award. It makes aquarium pumps, which it adapted for use in the pedicure spa market. >>
A House Built from Bottles Popular Science
04/29/2008
People around the world guzzle about 50 billion gallons of bottled water a year, and then toss billions of those plastic bottles into the trash heap instead of the recycling bin. Matt Naples and Peter Zummo think they can take this lemon of a fact and turn it into lemonade--or rather, take those discarded water bottles and turn them into chairs, shelves, or houses for the world's poor. >>
BullEx Digital Safety Engages European, Canadian Markets firehouse.com
04/16/2008
BullEx Digital Safety today announced that the company is continuing its international expansion efforts, including new sales and marketing activities into Europe, Canada and the Caribbean. >>
Aiding in the fight against global poverty Lehigh News
04/16/2008
Over the course of ten days earlier this year, a team of Lehigh students learned that the worlds of business and technology can intersect in the most unlikely of places. >>
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rensselaer Graduates Win GBP10K in Oxford University Business Plan Competition; 21st Century Challenge Competition designed to encourage sustainable new business ventures www.tmcnet.com
12/17/2007
Ecovative Design LLC, a company started by two recent graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently awarded GBP10,000 (approximately $20,500... >>
Village Empowerment - Peru Project energy.caeds.eng.uml.edu
12/10/2007
The Carter Partnership award for Campus-Community Collaboration honors outstanding models of collaboration between universities and community groups that work together on the critical needs >>
Murtha Accelerates Development of Wireless Power Technology from Powercast www.house.gov
11/05/2007
Powercast LLC, a start-up whose roots are in Ligonier, PA, won the CNET award for Best Emerging Technology at the... >>
UMaine Hosting Public Workshop for Technology Entrepreneurs www.umaine.edu/news
11/05/2007
The University of Maine's Student Innovation Center, in partnership with the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance, is bringing the... >>
Jaundice project wins Duke contest newsobserver.com
10/17/2007
Thousands of infants in developing countries may get treatment for jaundice, a common and potentially devastating newborn condition, because of... >>
Brown team develops 3-D Petri dish browndailyherald.com
10/01/2007
Brown researchers have developed a 3-D Petri dish that better simulates the environment inside a human body. The team's innovation was... >>
BullsEye Laser Fire Extinguisher www.photonics.com
09/19/2007
The BullsEye fire extinguisher training system uses laser technology to simulate the discharge of a dry chemical extinguisher for use... >>
Thinking outside the box Colorado Springs Gazette
09/18/2007
In one corner of the brightly colored room is the Vivid 910, a noncontact 3-D digitizer. At the opposite side... >>
Low Technologies, High Aims www.nytimes.com
09/11/2007
Beneath the bustling ?infinite corridor? linking buildings at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, just past a boiler room, an assemblage... >>
Lemelson awards $16M to nonprofit inventors alliance Mass High Tech
09/05/2007
A western Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering tech innovation at colleges and universities is flying high this month after... >>
30 Under 30: The Coolest Young Entrepreneurs in America Yahoo! Finance
07/30/2007
New technologies, a proliferation of resources, and a disenchantment with the corporate world are making Generation Y the most entrepreneurial... >>
Invention2Venture (I2V) a huge success at IIT IIT Tech News
04/23/2007
The Invention2Venture workshop (I2V) held at the MTCC Auditorium on March 31 was a huge success. Close to one hundred... >>
Entrepreneurial Leaders Unite to Recruit Women BUSINESS WIRE
04/09/2007
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) today formally announces the formation of the first Entrepreneurial Alliance, created... >>
Burt Swersey Receives 2007 Olympus Innovation Award Campus.News
04/04/2007
Burt Swersey, a lecturer in Rensselaer's department of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been awarded the 2007... >>
Ready to Launch Entrepreneur.com
04/04/2007
If an idea for a new product is swimming around in your head but you need help bringing that invention... >>
A bright light comes on Denverpost.com
02/07/2007
Six CSU engineering and business students, taking part in a new, globally minded master's program, have cooked up a stove that generates electricity for developing nations. >>
Entrepreneurs Receive Grant to Develop Electronic Tracking Device for Running Shoes earthtimes.org
01/02/2007
Two Babson College MBA students have received an $11,500 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and... >>
Clarion University joins NCIIA
01/02/2007
Clarion University has joined the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) according to Dr. Joshua Pearce, associate professor of... >>
Historic Vandergrift looks to future Tribune Review
01/02/2007
In 1901, six years after the establishment of Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, Steel Workers Magazine called the town a "working man's... >>
Are your running sneakers ready for the trash?
01/02/2007
James Biggins of Waltham and Todd Peavey of Cambridge are developing a device that would be embedded into running shoes... >>
GloTech goes public (E-Teams)
11/15/2006
GloTech Industries Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GTHI) common stock began trading on the OTC Bulletin Board market Monday.<br><br>
The Gainesville-based... >>
GloTech signs Louisville police department (E-Teams)
11/15/2006
GloTech Industries Inc. recently completed its first institutional sale of the GlowVest Pro to the Louisville Metro Police Department in... >>
Innovation Pays Off for University of Florida Student Entrepreneurs (E-Team)
11/15/2006
University of Florida sophomore Jonas Brandon decided he wanted to play video game emulator classics such as PacMan and Super... >>
Team improves cancer detection The Digital Collegian
08/07/2006
They beat out numerous teams from other schools to land second place, but science was the overall winner.
A team of... >>
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