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CMU-startup builds learning kits for kids with $100K NSF grant
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
roBlocks, a startup firm that is developing robotic blocks for children to use in science centers and education institutions, has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the National Science Foundation.
Entertainment Technology , Higher Education , Robotics  
Pittsburgh  
Engineers finding new uses for industrial ceramics at Penn State-Behrend College
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
Engineers at Penn State's Erie campus, The Behrend College, have developed two new processes for shaping industrial materials, and one of them may reshape the market for ceramics, a material commonly molded in simple forms that resist heat and electrical current.  Their insights may soon transform the clunky character of most ceramic products from ugly ducklings to supple swans.
Advance Manufacturing and Materials , Entrepreneurship , Higher Education , Intellectual Property  
Erie  
Jobs galore: Web site posts 30,000 openings in Pittsburgh region
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
A Web site designed to attract skilled workers from outside the region into the Pittsburgh job market may also offer Pittsburghers a boost against news of declines in employment nationwide, says Bill Flanagan, executive VP for the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
Business Services , Sustainability  
Pittsburgh  
Salvage Direct brokers total wrecks on the web to buyers around the world
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
Salvage Direct is one company that car owners never want to encounter--and as a salvage management service for the insurance industry's totally destroyed vehicles, it is perfectly content to operate way behind the scenes, in cyberspace.
Business Services , Entrepreneurship , Sustainability  
Erie  
York-based GEA PHE North America plans to add 60 jobs in 2009
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
York-based GEA PHE North America anticipates growth in 2009 on the order of 60 new jobs, mainly on the plant floor, according to Jon Paulus, business development manager for gasket and heat plate exchangers.
Advance Manufacturing and Materials , High Technology  
Lancaster-York  
Erie's Gannon University nurses pass the number one test
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
The proof is in the passing for Gannon University's Villa Maria School of Nursing. The two classes that graduated between October 2007 and September 2008 scored the highest percentage of first-try passers in Pennsylvania for the national licensing exam that allows trained nurses to enter the practice in their field. Passing the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses is a requirement for licensure in all U.S. states and territories.
Higher Education , Life Sciences  
Erie  
Fayette County Community Action Agency building wins LEED Silver rating
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
The Fayette County Community Action Agency has earned the distinction of being the first community action agency office building in the U.S. to earn a LEED Silver certification for it's state-of-the-art energy efficient design. The 18,459-square-foot building houses the agency's administrative staff as well as offices of the Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Workers' Compensation Agency. It was designed by Altman & Altman Architects.
Sustainability  
Green Homebuilding How-To shares the adventure of two Pennsylvania homeowners
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
With a growing army of architects giving green designs to commercial spaces, who's going to guide individuals into environmentally friendly habitats when they go home from work?
Sustainability  
EcoTech Marine to expand, roll out new products in 2009
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
Inasmuch as 2008 was a high growth year for Bethlehem-based startup EcoTech Marine, 2009 looks to be more of the same.
Entrepreneurship  
Bethlehem  
GeoDecisions maps the terrain for decision-makers throughout the nation
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
As our nation's new president looks to increase investment in public infrastructure, GeoDecisions will also have a new president--and an outlook for continued growth.
Business Services , High Technology  
Pittsburgh , Philadelphia , Harrisburg , State College  
Nature Conservancy to award companies working to save the planet and a buck
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008
Is there a connection between environmental conservation and good business practices? The Nature Conservancy thinks so, and it wants to recognize companies that excel in both.
Sustainability  
Harrisburg  
Highmark opens first retail insurance store in the state
Source: By Deb Smit, Pop City, 12/18/2008
Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. plans to opens the state’s first retail insurance stores early next year.
Business Services  
Pittsburgh  
Leave it to Vivisimo to launch a social search enterprise for companies
Source: By Deb Smit, Pop City, 12/18/2008
Move over Facebook, social networking is growing up.
Social Media  
Pittsburgh  
DG Power Systems creates new co-gen options for small-to-medium-sized businesses
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/11/2008
Reed Hayes, founder of DG Power Systems, extends the economies of small-scale, distributed energy production to small-sized businesses "beginning at the base of the commercial-industrial pyramid." 

Advance Manufacturing and Materials , Entrepreneurship , Sustainability  
Carnegie Learning gains ground as it competes with publishers of traditional textbooks
Source: Keystone Edge, 12/11/2008
Carnegie Learning, Inc. is gaining ground in so-called "textbook adoption states," where traditional publishers have long held the upper hand, with curricula that blend textbooks and software to teach math.


Higher Education , Sustainability  
Pittsburgh  
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