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2 local firms make Fortune list of best employers
SAN DIEGO -- A high-tech innovator and health care provider were the two San Diego- based corporations on Fortune magazine's annual list of the best companies for which to work.
Qualcomm, one of only seven firms to make the list every year since its...Tags: Health, Employees, Career and Workplace, Companies and Corporations, Employees
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UCSD researcher awarded National Medal of Science
SAN DIEGO -- President Barack Obama Tuesday named a San Diego biomedical engineering professor as a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
Shu Chien of UC San Diego is one of seven eminent researchers chosen for the annual honor, The White House...Tags: Scientific Invention, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, White House, Government, Science
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Grant gives local students laptops, net access
FOX 5 San Diego StaffSAN DIEGO -- Some San Diego middle-school students have traded in stacks of books for new laptops to use in the classroom and at home. A $1 million grant awarded by the Federal Communications Commission allowed Innovation Middle School in Clairemont to...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Schools, Middle Schools, Mass Media, Education
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Oceanside woman designs 'green' sports bottle
FOX 5 San Diego StaffAn Oceanside entrepreneur hopes to minimize global plastic waste with her new invention: a filtered sports water bottle. We are told to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but many of us prefer to pass on tap water and drink from a bottle. That upsets...Tags: Waste, Sports
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Wellington man puts people ahead of profits with his new invention
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsIt was never a breeze for Phil Wylie to make his beloved Malt-O-Meal. "I was tired of taking it out, stirring it and putting it back in, taking it back out, stirring it," Wylie says. "And I still ended up with lumps, and I don't like lumps in my Malt-O-...Tags: Material Science
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North County student wins Intel Science Fair's top prize
North County High School freshman Jack Andraka stood on the auditorium stage, speaking about the invention that earned him the $75,000 grand prize at the recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Behind him stood Dr. Anirban Maitra, a...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Health, Thomas Edison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Students
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ConneCT 3QW: Mike Roer, President Of The Entrepreneurship Foundation
The Entrepreneurship Foundation is a non-profit organization in Fairfield that provides moral support to student companies, matches students with mentors and and provides a forum for student entrepreneurs to network, and share leads, customers, and...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Students, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Economy, Business and Finance, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Teen Inventor: The Cheer Launcher
As a kid, Aden Shank would sit at home and build. He started out with a few Legos. Those building blocks would lead to inventions. “As I’ve gotten older I’ve branched out from just toys into more advanced stuff,” said Shank. ...
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Leonard A. Skovira, dry cleaner
Leonard A. Skovira, who established three area dry-cleaning establishments and was also an inventor, died May 13 of cancer at his Parkville home.
He was 94.
Mr. Skovira was born and raised in Jessup, Pa., where he graduated in 1936 from Jessup High...Tags: Dance, Roman Catholicism, Parkville, Harford Road, World War II (1939-1945)
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Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control
Eugene Polley, inventor of the first wireless channel changer, a precursor to the remote control that surfers use to navigate the 500-plus channels offered by modern television, has died. He was 96.
Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a hospital in...Tags: Lombard, Downers Grove, Science and Technology, Television Industry, Satellite and Cable Service
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R.I.P. Eugene Polley, inventor of the TV remote control [Video]
Amid all the ballyhoo over what a bold visionary Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is, let's pause for a moment to appreciate the work of Eugene Polley, inventor of the TV remote control, who has died at age 96. Think about it. Before Polley's brainstorm,...
Tags: Radio, Television, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Entertainment
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