Tri-Cities Tech Business Update

May 2009 Issue

• Stimulus funds for Research District project
  The state of Washington is providing $1.68 million in stimulus funds for the reconstruction of First Street in Richland, which serves as the primary entrance point to the Tri-Cities Research District. more...
• CTED welcomes new director
  Former Microsoft vice-president Rogers Weed has taken over as the director of the Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development. more...
• EPA names new Hanford program manager
  The Environmental Protection Agency has named Dennis Faulk as the program manager for the Hanford Project Office in Richland, Wash. more...
• AREVA launches new website
  AREVA has launched a new stakeholder-focused website, designed specifically for the group's American audience. more...
• Small Business Awards nominations announced
  The Three Rivers Alliance of Chambers received 21 nominations for the 2009 Mid-Columbia Small Business of the Year Award. more...
• Young Professionals of Tri-Cities website
  The Young Professionals of the Tri-Cities group has launched a new website. The group is a networking group made up of young professionals, primarily in their 20s and 30s, in the Tri-Cities focused on recruiting and retaining talented young professionals to the region's work force. more...
• Student team wins award for tech-based business plan
  A team of students in the Washington State University Tri-Cities business administration program tied for second place in the graduate division and won $8,000 in the university's annual business plan competition. more...

• Inaugural Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open accepting submissions
  Early stage clean technology companies are invited to enter the inaugural Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open. more...
• New DOE agency accepting proposals for grants
  The Department of Energy is inviting proposals for grants that will be given out under the new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. more...
• CTED releases online small business guide
  The Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development has released its 2009 Guide for Small Business in Washington State. more...
• UW TechTransfer bringing in entrepreneurs
  The University of Washington's TechTransfer program has introduced two new programs to support researchers looking to start companies or to commercialize their technologies. more...
• NWEN offers new entrepreneur sessions
  The Northwest Entrepreneur Network has launched its new "eIQ" sessions focused on boosting "entrepreneurial IQ" and providing entrepreneurs with tools needed to build their businesses. more...
• Resources online
  1) The article "YouTube a valuable marketing tool" was published in the Tri-City Herald on April 22. more...
• Nominate a website to be redesigned
  Imageworks, based in Pasco, Wash., is accepting submissions for its annual website redesign contest. more...

• ASQ to tour Kadlec
  MAY 5. The Columbia Basin Chapter of the American Society for Quality's May meeting will be a site visit to Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, Wash. more...
• Information Technology Day 2009
  MAY 6. Information Technology Day 2009 will be held at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Wash. more...
• Battelle speaker will give talk on advancing research parks
  MAY 13. REGISTER BY MAY 11. Mitch Horowitz, vice-president and managing director of Battelle's Technology Partnership Practice, will be the next speaker in the Tri-Cities Research District Speaker Series. more...
• Clean Tech Open briefing
  MAY 18. A briefing to provide local businesses with an overview of the inaugural Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open competition will be held on May 18. more...
• ASQ to tour wind farm
  JUNE 6. The Columbia Basin Chapter of the American Society for Quality's June meeting will be a tour of Ellensburg's Wild Horse Wind Farm. more...

• Microsoft veteran joins PNNL
  Computational scientist John Feo has joined the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to lead software development for supercomputers with multi-threaded architecture. more...
• Mike Schwenk "innovation" presentation featured in column
  The column "A small team with a big mission can achieve big things" was published on the Everett Herald's website on March 30. more...

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Tri-Cities Tech Business Update is published by the Economic Development Office at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Each month, we send you an e-mail message, giving you the link of news, tips, awards, upcoming events, and other information about local technology-based businesses and organizations that support them. With business and community partners, our goal is to build and diversify the Tri-Cities economy—adding skilled jobs in primary-sector industries that bring in outside dollars. Currently, more than 1,100 tech-related businesses, investors, and economic development stakeholders subscribe to the newsletter, mostly in the Mid-Columbia area and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. This newsletter (RL-P00-009) supports PNSO's vision for the future of the Hanford Site and surrounding area through the creation of research opportunities, new industries, and new business clusters.