Category: Member News

Source: Xconomy, Dec 10 Membrion, a Seattle-based cleantech startup, recently raised $2.2 million in new funding to give the company a boost along the path to commercialization. It engineers flexible membranes using silica gel, the same material in the small bags manufacturers place inside new shoes and bags of jerky and edible seaweed. These bags contain […]

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Source: Commerce.Idaho.gov, Nov 26 Idaho Commerce and five Idaho-based companies will attend the POWER-GEN International trade show December 4-6 in Orlando, Florida. POWER-GEN is the largest power generation event in the world, with attendance from over 100 countries, 1,400 exhibitors and more than 20,000 industry leaders, researchers and customers. The show is estimated to generate […]

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Source: UIdaho.edu, October 26 A University of Idaho team advanced this week to the final stage of a $10 million competition to find the best way to stop to toxic algae blooms from poisoning drinking water supplies and the environment. The Everglades Foundation Wednesday announced four finalists for the George Barley Water Prize. It will […]

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Source:  Geekwire.com, Nov 23 Some of the most intriguing farming in Washington is taking place not among the valleys or rolling hills of the eastern part of the state. It’s happening indoors, in an industrial area of the city of SeaTac, south of Seattle. There are no crops, and no livestock. This startup is growing […]

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source: PSBJ, Nov 15 The Puget Sound Business Journal profiled Jenette Ramos, senior vice president of manufacturing, supply chain and operations at Boeing. The article covers Ramos’ career trajectory from an environmental engineer at Boeing three decades ago, through to her current senior leadership role. She is also on the board of The Nature Conservancy in […]

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Malin M. Young, a biochemist who leads PNNL's science and technology strategy, has been elected to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

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Source: PNNL.gov, November 20, 2018 RICHLAND, Wash. — The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is the recipient of seven awards, selected by R&D Magazine, as part of the top 100 innovative scientific breakthroughs of the year. The magazine announced the winning technologies at its annual R&D 100 Awards ceremony, held Nov. 17 in Orlando, Fla. The R&D 100 Awards […]

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Source:  Tri-City Herald Staff, Tri-City Herald, October 31, 2018. (Pasco, WA) Top leadership of the Bonneville Power Administration will be in Pasco on Nov. 5 to talk about the agency’s plans for the next five years, which include strengthening the agency’s finances. The push to remove the lower Snake River dams also will be discussed. See the entire […]

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Source:  Rob Curley, Spokesman Review, October 28, 2018. Leading a company through something as transitionally massive as a new ownership structure is never a cakewalk. But leading one of your hometown’s most iconic companies – which also happens to be one of the only places you’ve ever worked – through something like that makes everything incrementally […]

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Source:  Resourceful HR Newsletter, October 25, 2018. Innovative HR involves the implementation of new ideas and methods to better meet the ever-evolving requirements of an organization and its workforce. Bringing an innovative approach to HR requires anticipating future needs and adapting to those needs, rather than responding to an immediate crisis or situation. One area of […]

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