Ideas go from University labs to market – no bull. State univerisities team up to showcase economic development

SB75: House will weigh re-funding USTAR, which could turn inventions into money for universities

Conly Hansen developed an improved method for turning cow manure into electricity. His is the kind of success story backers hope the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative will spawn.

Having grown up on a farm, Conly Hansen remembers how families struggled to make a living, and he wanted to find a way to make their lives better.

As a biological and mechanical engineering researcher at Utah State University, he found the answer caked on the bottom of farmers’ boots – cow manure.

Hansen developed an improved system for turning the smelly brown stuff into electricity. His work led to a Logan startup company called Andigen, which is marketing the technology to the agriculture industry.

By Greg Lavine
The Salt Lake Tribune

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3503301

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President leads UK ‘Dream Tour’
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University of Kentucky President Lee Todd will spend Tuesday in Northern Kentucky as part of his "Dream Tour" of the state to promote the university and highlight how UK’s research and community engagement benefit Kentucky.

Todd, along with UK deans, faculty, researchers and administrators, are visiting more than 20 Kentucky cities today through Friday and June 6-9.

The theme of the trip, "The Dream Tour," corresponds with the theme of the university’s strategic plan: "Dream. Challenge. Succeed."

Full Story: http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050523/NEWS02/505230373/-1/BACK01

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State univerisities team up to showcase economic development

by Stella Shaffer

Iowa’s three regents universities team up today (Wednesday) to try and show how much their research has enriched economic development in the state. Professor Tahira Hira of Iowa State University, says the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa have been developing new inventions, products and ways of doing things and solving problems for years now.

At a technology fair in Des Moines today, they’ll show it off. She says there’ll be a panel of people from the three state universities telling what they do, and another will feature people from businesses that were on the receiving end of that benefit, telling how they partnered with universities, and then at a "wonderful reception" several booths from each university will show the work that’s going on.

Full Story: http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=1212E9F3-6347-42B0-B8505ACEC1B7E698