CSURF and CSU Ventures Technology Transfer Awards Banquette 2010
The Colorado State University Research Foundation and CSU Ventures honored Colorado State University professors.
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CSURF, CSU Ventures Honor Co-Founder of Abound Solar with Innovative Excellence Award
The Colorado State University Research Foundation and CSU Ventures on Thursday honored Colorado State University Professor W.S. Sampath with an Innovative Excellence Award for his role in creating Abound Solar – a growing solar module manufacturer with more than 250 employees along the Front Range.
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Second addition of the CSU Research and Innovation newsletter
Featuring CSU Technology Transfer and Superclusters featured articles
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Colorado State University, Solix Biofuels Inc. Part of $44 Million Consortium Announced Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chu
Colorado State University and Solix Biofuels Inc. will help advance the nation’s algae-to-oil industry as part of a $44 million consortium coordinated through the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.
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Colorado State University Professor Launches New Company to Manufacture Inexpensive, Longer-Lasting Batteries with Higher Power Densities
Batteries up to 1,000 times more powerful, 10 times longer-lasting and cheaper than traditional batteries – technology that could revolutionize the military, automobile and health care industries.
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CSURF Technology Transfer Office will participate in the 2009 BioWest Conference hosted at the Grand Hyatt - Denver
More than 700 leaders in the bioscience community will be in attendance.
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Researchers discover what causes brain to shrink providing key to mysteries of dementia
Colorado State University researchers have discovered that low levels of two chemicals in the brain cause the brain to shrink -- a condition that leads to dementia -- and the discovery could help scientists prevent the condition.
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First addition of the CSU Research and Innovation newsletter
Featuring CSU Technology Transfer and Superclusters featured articles
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CSU to host drug discovery, research program funded by $2.25 million grant
Due to the need to treat ongoing diseases in humans and animals, CSU is planning to start a statewide initiative that will serve university researchers in the discovery of new medications.
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Center to Drive New Drugs from Colorado University Research Discoveries
Colorado State University is launching a center that will aid university researchers across the state in their efforts to discover new medications to treat human and animal illnesses.
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New wheat variety released by CSU named after Colorado '14er'
A new high-yielding variety of hard white winter wheat developed by the Colorado State University Agricultural Experiment Station has been released to the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation, or CWRF.
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Engineering professors use optics to advance lab-on-a-chip technology
Someday soon, early detection of heart disease or cancer may be as simple as putting a drop of your blood on a semiconductor chip smaller than a fingernail, according to a new paper in a scientific journal published by two Colorado State University engineering professors.
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A New Test for Business and Biofuel
With the twin goals of making fuel from algae and reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases, a start-up company co-founded by a Colorado State University professor recently introduced a strain of algae that loves carbon dioxide into a water tank next to a natural gas processing plant. The water is already green-tinged with life.
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Sustainable transportation, $5 million stimulus DOE grant for education on hybrid, electric vehicles
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Colorado State University for a $5 million grant to educate the public and train the workforce and emergency responders about the inner workings of hybrid and electric vehicles.
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Colorado State University Faculty More Than Doubled Invention Disclosures between 2006 and 2008, New Report Shows
Colorado State University faculty members have more than doubled the number of invention disclosures – detailed descriptions of inventions - filed with the university’s technology transfer office in the past three years.
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CSU team working on boosting lithium-ion battery
Exciting new research in the chemistry department at CSU has yielded a potential breakthrough in battery technology.
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Students at heart of latest Envirofit technology unveiled Tuesday
Bryan Willson, director of the lab and a mechanical engineering professor, started the cookstoves program at the university and is co-founder of Envirofit. Now DeFoort leads a team of undergraduate and graduate students who developed a proprietary alloy for the cookstove’s combustion chamber as well as an orifice plate that helps the stoves reduce smoke and toxic emissions by up to 80 percent.
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Colorado State a leader in specialty crop research
Researchers in Colorado State University's College of Agricultural Sciences are helping to solve critical specialty crop agriculture issues and address problems of food safety, food quality and economics. Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and nursery crops.
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CSU cancer supercluster fosters new bioscience business
A bioscience company dedicated to improving detection of DNA damage on a scale never before possible has been born from Colorado State University's Cancer Supercluster NeoTREX.
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AVA Solar Reinvents Itself as Abound Solar
AVA Solar, a manufacturer of low-cost, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels, today unveiled its new brand name, Abound Solar, to demonstrate the company’s commitment to providing an abundance of low-cost solar panels to solar integrators around the globe.
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CSU on track to more than double inventions in three years
CSU researchers have more than doubled the number of their inventions in two years, an achievement the university says is directly connected to its Supercluster concept.
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AVA Solar - Most Successful U.S. Startups 2008
Founded in 2007, AVA Solar, which has fewer than 150 employees, says it has perfected a process for producing solar photovoltaic modules at a cost below $1/watt, significantly reducing the cost of generating solar electricity.
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Engineering professor elected Fellow to two scientific organizations
Colorado State University Professor Carmen Menoni, whose tabletop microscope recently won top honors from R&D magazine, has been named a Fellow of two major scientific organizations:
- American Physical Society
- Optical Society of America
Menoni joins a select group of colleagues who are chosen by their peers for the distinctive honors.
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Solix Biofuels to build facility in Durango
Fort Collins-based Solix Biofuels announced Tuesday it will build an algae biofuel facility in Durango, taking advantage of the industrial environment and expansive land in southern Colorado.
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University researchers earn 'Oscar of
Invention' award
CSU researchers in the College of Engineering have recently been recognized broadly for excellence in inventing outstanding new technology and achievements in technology transfer.
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CSU startup Envirofit rolls out cookstoves in India
Envirofit International, a leader in creating sustainable, scalable businesses that help solve global health and environmental problems, is ramping up production and expanding its line of clean-burning cookstoves in response to increasing demand in India.
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CSU, Advanced MicroLabs get $750,000 to detect cardiovascular disease
Colorado State University chemistry professor Charles Henry and Advanced MicroLabs will use the technology to advance their research of homocysteine - an amino acid that is a marker for cardiovascular disease, according to a CSU press release.
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Denmark, Spain honor CSU's engines lab - Clean tech innovations
The 2008 Royal Award for Sustainable Technology Transfer, protected by HRH Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, was presented to Colorado State University's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at Copenmind this week for clean tech innovations in three different areas: an international clean cookstove project, two-stroke engine conversion kit and the next generation of biofuels production from algae.
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AVA Solar completes $104 million equity financing
AVA Solar, an advanced thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer located in Fort Collins, Colorado, announced today it has completed its second institutional equity round of financing. This $104 million funding was led by DCM and included new investors Technology Partners, GLG Partners and Bohemian Companies, LLC as well as prior investors, including Invus, LP.
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Meteorological Society conference in Denver
A Colorado State University professor on Wednesday will teach a short course in Denver for TV meteorologists on the latest in weather radar developed at Colorado State.
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Colorado State University a pioneer in wind energy, partner with world-leading Denmark
Denmark - the world's most advanced wind-powered nation - Colorado State University and a startup company in Fort Collins have collaborated to address challenges of taking intermittent wind power and turning it into a stable and reliable renewable resource.
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Discovery could help answer questions about chronic disease & aging
Technological advancement in bioinformatics. Genes that scientist believe are turned off are actually functioning at a low level that has previously been undetected, a discovery that could help answer questions about chronic disease and aging.
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Denver Grain Start-Up Earns Top Honor at Colorado State University Researchers Recognition Ceremony
Keen Ingredients, based in Louisville, Colo., was named "Start-up Company of the Year" by Colorado State University at its recent annual Researchers Recognition Dinner and Award Ceremony.
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'CSU Accelerates' in New York City
Last month, President Penley hosted the inaugural 'CSU Accelerates' event in New York City. Above, the NYC skyline from the top of the observation deck on Rockefeller Center.
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Colorado State Researchers Create Archaeological Playing Cards for Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
A Colorado State University researcher and graphic artist have developed playing cards with messages on how American soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan can help preserve precious antiquities.
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U.S. Air Force Under Secretary and former astronaut to join Colorado State University
Ronald M. Sega, former NASA astronaut and current Under Secretary for the U.S. Air Force, will join Colorado State University as a professor of systems engineering and as vice president for Applied Research for the Colorado State University Research Foundation, or CSURF.
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Colorado State University Research Finds Circadian Rhythms Dominate All Life Functions, Plays Significant Role in Metabolism
New research from Colorado State University shows that the function of all genes in mammals is based on circadian - or daily - rhythms. The study refutes the current theory that only 10 percent to 15 percent of all genes were affected by nature's clock.
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Novel vaccine to prevent tuberculosis developed at Colorado State University
A Colorado State University research team led by Professor Ian Orme, has developed a novel vaccine to prevent tuberculosis, one of the world's most deadly diseases. The vaccine triggers the body's immunity in a novel way.
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Engineering and Theatre Students Invent New Products
In just a few years, a handful of Colorado State University students and professors were able to design, create, and bring to market a useful and unique new technology.
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Teaching Healthy Habits and Moving With the Times
Gertie Gouda and Rudy D. Radish, "Food Friends " characters developed to help preschoolers gain a willingness to try new foods, are just that – characters.
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Blood Tests Rapid and Inexpensive with Invention by Colorado State Chemistry Professor; New Company Formed
A Colorado State University chemistry professor has developed a way to rapidly test blood for signs of diabetes and cardiovascular disease - methods that could save patients and physicians significant time and money.
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