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January 26, 2007
Drug-testing lab in Mogadore takes a chance; rewards follow
Akron Beacon Journal, January 26, 2007
Omega Laboratories—a six-year-old Mogadore, Ohio, business that tests hair for drug use—is enjoying its status as the sixth-fastest growing company in Northeast Ohio, as ranked by the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Read article.
December 18, 2006
Ohio awards nearly $168 million in high-tech grants
Akron Beacon Journal, December 15, 2006
Nine high-tech projects will receive a total of about $168 million in grants from the Ohio Third Frontier program, including a $60 million award to the Cleveland Clinic for a new heart research center, the state announced. Swagelok Co., a Solon-based business that makes industrial valves and fittings, received $5.5 million to work with Case Western Reserve University on its patented process of carburizing steel—using carbon to make steel harder and less vulnerable to corrosion—at a low temperature. Read article.
November 08, 2006
Sawyer easily defeats Fink
Akron Beacon Journal, November 8, 2006
Former Congressman and Akron Mayor Tom Sawyer handily defeated incumbent Deborah Owens Fink in the District 7 state school board race Tuesday. Sawyer was drafted to run by Help Ohio Public Education, formed by scientists critical of Fink's attempts to change the state science curriculum. The group's founders, Case Western Reserve University professors Patricia Princehouse and Lawrence Krauss, have contended that the changes were an effort to insert religion into the science curriculum. Read article.