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ISU biorenewable chemicals center receives additional $8.48 million

Iowa State University has received an additional $8.48 million from the National Science Foundation to support ISU’s NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals. The funding brings NSF’s total funding to the maximum of $35.26 …

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Gravitate hosts U.Lab online course

Gravitate is hosting a free massive online open course (MOOC) beginning Sept. 10. The class, called U.Lab, teaches students how to move from egocentric to ecocentric by using a concept called Theory U. This method was developed …

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CenturyLink promotes Midwest region president

CenturyLink Inc. has named Duane Ring senior vice president of global field operations. Ring was previously CenturyLink’s region president for its 12-state Midwest Region, which includes Iowa. In this new role, Ring will be responsible …

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Event Sept. 16: Benjamin Lefever to appear at StartUp Stories

Benjamin Lefever, founder of of Certintell, will take questions at this month’s StartUp Stories, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 16 in Conference Room 101 at Ruan II, 601 Locust St. Certintell, now 2 years old, provides a cloud-based …

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Initiative to add broadband to 90,000 homes

A multi-company initiative backed by $53.2 million a year in FCC grants will expand broadband service to 90,000 Iowa homes, Gov. Terry Branstad announced Monday.


“In Iowa, technology and access to broadband Internet is the great…
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Des Moines innovators win $5,000 for app

Two Des Moines men, WorkHound app creators Max Farrell and Andrew Kirpalani, won the first Truck Tank competition at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas last week. The duo beat out nine other competitors …

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Technology Association of Iowa to award two scholarships

Nominations are currently open for two $2,500 scholarships to be given by the Technology Association of Iowa to the 2015 winners of the Youth Innovation and Leadership and the Collegian Innovation and Leadership awards. Nominations …

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Entrepreneurs: Bill Adamowski

Serial entrepreneur Bill Adamowski sought to return to Iowa from Silicon Valley earlier this year and was looking for the next big startup deal he could launch.   
After several discussions with Bill Crum at …

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Entrepreneurs: Mike Colwell

Mike Colwell makes his living helping businesses succeed.

He has plenty of tips, and he’s also been known to invest.

That much is well known, but a closer look at his background shows just how …

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CenturyLink accepts $3 billion in FCC funds to expand rural broadband

CenturyLink Inc. announced today that it will bring high-speed Internet services to approximately 1.2 million rural households and businesses in 33 states, including Iowa. The company has accepted approximately $500 million a year for six …