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Wall Street West: Northeast PA to Serve as Center of NYC Financial Data Backup Efforts
A new federal program will pump $15 million into northeastern Pennsylvania to support "Wall Street West"-a complete backup of the New York financial markets in the event of disaster. The state was awarded a Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic D... Read More
Partnership for Broadband Wireless Innovation: Advancing an Increasingly Wire-Free World
As wireless technology becomes more pervasive in our everyday lives, the Partnership for Broadband Wireless Innovation is determined to tackle the challenges and fulfill the promise of wireless. The Antenna Research Lab at Villanova University is ... Read More
Dynalene: Heat Transfer Fluid from an Unlikely Source
Over the past decade, Dan Loikits followed a fortuitous path that began with an orange peel and ended with Dynalene-a multimillion dollar company that produces a full range of patented, high-performance heat transfer liquids. Orange oil has long b... Read More
Factory Built Housing Center: Driving the Evolution of Modular Housing
"Modular housing" often conjures images of unattractive, hastily built structures. But the industry has evolved dramatically in the past few decades-due in large part to efforts by organizations like the Factory Built Housing Center (FBHC) at the Pen... Read More
DesignAdvance: The Holy Grail of Printed Circuit Board Design
The heart and brain of telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics is the printed circuit board (PCB)-highly complex configurations of components that require extremely precise placement. Until now, the best way to design these boards-some ... Read More
Center for Food Innovation: Feeding a Fickle Future
Consumers are a finicky bunch, and rarely is that more true than in the food industry. Food manufacturers are not only expected to weather economic downturns and maintain operational efficiency, they're also expected to be innovative. Today that mean... Read More
Cohera: A New Surgical Glue for the Medical Adhesive Market
Cohera Biomedical Adhesives Inc. is proof that innovation thrives when you tear down the walls that often separate different disciplines in a university. The company is a spinout of a cross-disciplinary research team at the University of Pittsburgh t... Read More
Chaperone Technologies: Preventing the Rise of a “Superbug”
For years, scientists have warned that the overuse of antibiotics is leading to more drug-resistant pathogens. Such resistant bacteria-or "superbugs"-have long posed significant danger in hospitals and could present a frightening bio-terrorism scenar... Read More
Consortium for Sustainable Design: Novel Approach Fuels Economic Growth
From flood-prone parking lots to poor indoor air quality, there is tremendous economic opportunity in developing environmentally friendly solutions, products and processes. But the scope of so-called "sustainable design" is so vast that it cannot eff... Read More
Plextronics: Believing in the Revolutionary Power of Plastic
Few would argue that the United States needs to reduce its reliance on oil and develop alternative sources of energy. Solar power has been around for a long time, but the current technology is relatively expensive. What's needed is a more cost-effect... Read More
