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UT engineering grad earns chance to pitch his invention on ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’

On top of his mechanical engineering studies at the University of Toledo, Tom Burden was wrenching on F-16 Fighting Falcons as an Air Force Reserve mechanic with the 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton. While on duty, he stumbled into a frustrating issue: When …
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Penn State grad launches start-up to give new use to an old invention

A product initially developed to control nutrients runoff on Florida farmland could help golf course superintendents use less water and fertilizer. And a business-friendly climate at a major university has helped bring it to market. Rhizosorb is a soil …
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Fishy invention: Anchorage grad gets patent for solution to fish waste problem

As an Alaskan with a predilection for fishing and the outdoors, Alexandra West knew what problem she wanted to solve while a student at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and it had to do with fish. Near her childhood home on the Kenai Peninsula, West had …
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