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Solar company agrees to develop hot water systems

MBJ Staff — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:36:16 +0000

GULFPORT — Solar America Corp. has executed a memorandum of understanding with Solar Energy Labs Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., a developer of solar hot water solutions. Solar America and Solar Energy Labs will collaborate on incorporation of Solar America’s Solar Power Station technologies into Solar Energy Labs Intellement photovoltaic hot water system. “The opportunity to [...]

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Alternative fuels company ending all R&D, selling land

Associated Press — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:42:42 +0000

NATCHEZ — Rentech Inc. says it plans to mothball its alternative-energy product demonstration facility in Commerce City, Colo., and end all related research and development activities, which will mean cutting 65 employee and contractor positions by mid-year. CEO D. Hunt Ramsbottom says the company intends to focus instead on opportunities for more immediate profitability. Rentech [...]

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Another series of tests on J-2X engine slated for Stennis

MBJ Staff — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:46:16 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — NASA’s has a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) to new destinations in the solar system. Beginning this month, engineers will conduct a series of tests on the second J-2X development engine, designated number 10002, on the [...]

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University, steelmaker strike new R&D partnership

MBJ Staff — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:38:43 +0000

STARKVILLE —Mississippi State University and steelmaker Severstal North America (SNA) has established a research partnership aimed at helping grow the region’s high-tech manufacturing economy and foster national and international participation in ferrous alloy education and development. MSU’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems and SNA recently launched the Steel Research Center to establish and operate a [...]

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Pharmacy school gets $10M biomedical research grant

MBJ Staff — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:46:50 +0000

OXFORD — The University of Mississippi and its School of Pharmacy have received a five-year, $10-million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, grant from the National Institutes of Health. COBRE is one of the main components for NIH’s Institutional Development Award program, which is designed to broaden funding for biomedical and behavioral research. The [...]

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Shuttle’s final journey delayed by bad weather

Associated Press — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:01:30 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — The beginning of space shuttle Endeavour’s final flight to California has been postponed because of weather along the flight route. NASA had planned for the 747 carrying the shuttle to take off from Kennedy Space Center today. The flight is now scheduled to take off at sunrise tomorrow. Low flyovers are still [...]

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Ex-USM president and polymer science pioneer quietly retires

Associated Press — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:52:34 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Shelby Thames, a pioneer in polymer sciences and a former president of the University of Southern Mississippi, has retired. That’s according to an announcement from the school. Thames founded USM’s research program in polymer science. He was university president for five years, from 2002-2007. The Hattiesburg American reports Thames retired last week with [...]

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Cochran: Committee-approved funding should advance NASA’s missions

MBJ Staff — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:13:17 +0000

WASHINGTON — Funding outlined for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by the Senate Appropriations Committee for the upcoming fiscal year should enable the space agency to advance its post-Space Shuttle missions, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) says. Cochran is vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee that has approved the FY2013 Commerce, Justice [...]

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Rolls-Royce expanding at Stennis Space Center

MBJ Staff — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:04:13 +0000

HANCOCK COUNTY — Rolls-Royce North America is adding a second jet engine test stand at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, according to a release from the governor’s office. The project represents a company investment of at least $50 million and will create 35 new jobs. Currently, Rolls-Royce employs 45 workers at its existing [...]

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ChromaDex enrolls participants for study of pTeroPure

MBJ Staff — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:22:38 +0000

OXFORD — ChromaDex Corporation, an Irvine, Calif.-based natural products company that provides proprietary, science-based solutions and ingredients to the dietary supplement, food and beverage, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, has completed enrollment in the first human clinical study of its proprietary pTeroPure. The purpose of the randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study is to evaluate whether pTeroPure will [...]

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