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MAGNET and NorTech create positive attraction with $285k federal contract
The Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network (MAGNET) has partnered with the Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition (NorTech) to receive a $285,000 federal contract for a pilot project focusing on the advanced energy value chain. The contract comes from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology's Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP).
MAGNET and NorTech will work together to coach and train a group of regional manufacturing companies to stimulate and support man... Read more >
MAGNET and NorTech will work together to coach and train a group of regional manufacturing companies to stimulate and support man... Read more >
Once upon a time, automobiles were built inside the 65,000-square-foot former factory at 6555 Carnegie Avenue. Or so current owner Giancarlo Calicchia surmises from elevators large enough to move finished cars from the upper levels to the parking lot outside.
Today Calicchia, an accomplished sculptor, sees a new use for thelong-dormant building — a center for artists' workspaces and offices.He and architect Paul Beegan are busy designing that future, whilepreserving the... Read more >
Today Calicchia, an accomplished sculptor, sees a new use for thelong-dormant building — a center for artists' workspaces and offices.He and architect Paul Beegan are busy designing that future, whilepreserving the... Read more >
community greenhouse partners to spend $3.4M on urban farm and greenhouse on vacant cleveland lot
First, a tree grew in Brooklyn; now a massive greenhouse will be built in Cleveland.
Tim Smith of Community Greenhouse Partners recently announced that the organization has made an agreement to buy the site of the former St. George Catholic Church to build a greenhouse. The estimated $3.4 million project will realize Community Greenhouse Partners' goal of selling organic vegetables at low cost to low-income families.
Community Greenhouse Partners had been sea... Read more >
Tim Smith of Community Greenhouse Partners recently announced that the organization has made an agreement to buy the site of the former St. George Catholic Church to build a greenhouse. The estimated $3.4 million project will realize Community Greenhouse Partners' goal of selling organic vegetables at low cost to low-income families.
Community Greenhouse Partners had been sea... Read more >
Prohibition all but erased a thriving brewing industry in Cleveland, reducing the number of breweries from about 30 to a mere handful. The good news? The brewing industry in Northeast Ohio is not only alive and well -- it's growing.
There's no guarantee that they'll study any harder, but those who attend Cleveland State University (CSU) will no doubt be spending more time inside the new and ultra-friendly Student Center. The $44-million building was officially unveiled to new and returning students at the beginning of the fall semester.
The Student Center features three lounges and several terraces for reading and relaxing. Dining options include the Viking Marketplace and Chop'd and Wrap'd. The Atri... Read more >
The Student Center features three lounges and several terraces for reading and relaxing. Dining options include the Viking Marketplace and Chop'd and Wrap'd. The Atri... Read more >
rawlings and cleveland clinic team up for sports research
The Associated Press outlines a new collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and helmet-maker Rawlings to conduct research on concussions and other sports-related head and neck injuries that could include measuring the impact on the brain.
Doctors and scientists from the clinic's Neurological Institute and its Spine Research Laboratory will use equipment manufactured and donated by Rawlings to do research on helmets and other protective accessories used in both baseball... Read more >
Doctors and scientists from the clinic's Neurological Institute and its Spine Research Laboratory will use equipment manufactured and donated by Rawlings to do research on helmets and other protective accessories used in both baseball... Read more >
stem-cell therapy from athersys shows promise in brain injuries and heart attacks
The October issue of the journal Experimental Neurology reportson a study showing that MultiStem, a patented adult stem cell therapyproduct from Cleveland-based biopharmaceutical firm Athersys Inc., mitigated the damage of traumatic brain injuries in lab experiments.
MultiStemuses multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPC, which "are obtainedfrom the bone marrow or other tissue sources of healthy, consentingadult donors," according to an Athersys release. In an abstract... Read more >
MultiStemuses multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPC, which "are obtainedfrom the bone marrow or other tissue sources of healthy, consentingadult donors," according to an Athersys release. In an abstract... Read more >