100 BEST NONPROFITS TO WORK FOR IN OREGON
Oregon Business Magazine, 10/09
A survey conducted by Oregon Business Magazine, recognizes Research Park tenant, Oregon Research Institute, as being the 3rd in the 100 Best Nonprofits to work for in Oregon. Nonprofits are key businesses critical to the economic health of the state, and ones that employee hundreds of thousands of Oregonians.
Register Guard, 10/14/09
Oregon Research Institute scientists are bringing $4.4 million of federal economic stimulus money to Eugene. The nonprofit research group received four grants through the stimulus bill, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
MitoScience, Company News Archive, 10/14/09
MitoSciences announces that it is now under contract with 8 of the world's top 10 drug developers to provide mitochondrial toxicity screening services, or to help in the establishment of in-house screening standards.
Chamber Hands Four Awards to Business for Community Efforts
Register Guard, 10/7/09
A former Research Park start-up company, Avant Assessment, was honored for Innovation at the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce 2009 Emerald Awards. Avant Assessment is a global leader in Web-based language assessments.
UO and TC Eugene New Building Project
RRP Office Update, 6/8/09
At the June meeting of the State Board of Higher Education, the University of Oregon received approval to enter a long-term ground lease agreement between the UO and TC Eugene, for a 4.2 acre site to develop a 79,800 SF LEED Silver building for the Oregon Research Institute and the Education Policy Improvement Center.
Riverfront Research Park moves forward with expansion plans
Inside Oregon, 6/8/09
At the June meeting of the State Board of Higher Education, the University of Oregon received approval to enter into a long-term lease agreement and break ground in August on a new 79,800 SF LEED Silver building in the Riverfront Research Park.
Register Guard, 6/2/09
Trammell Crow Company hopes to break ground in the western section of the Riverfront Research Park in August for a 4-story, 79,800 square foot building. Trammell Crow Company plans to lease 69,000 square feet to Oregon Research Institute and 10,800, to Educational Policy Improvement Center.
Top investment award goes to new Corvallis company
UO E-Clips, 5/20/09
At the first annual Willamette Angel Conference, Floragenex won the audience vote from the 200 people attending for the best presentation and brings great recognition and peer support.
Word Wizard Crossword constructor builds a Super Bowl puzzle for the New York Times
Magazine
The Register Guard, 1/30/09
Eugene computer wizard Matt Ginsberg will enjoy his own moment of football glory today. Ginsberg and fellow puzzle constructor Vic Fleming, co-created "Grid Irony," the football-themed crossword puzzle that will appear in honor of Super Bowl Sunday in Saturday's New York Times Magazine. Ginsberg, a computer programmer and entrepreneur co-founded On Time Systems and is a tenant in the Riverfront Research Park.
Four UO spinoff ventures to receive $50,000 grants
Register Guard, 12/20/08
Four start-up companies that grew from research at the University of Oregon, including three in Eugene, will receive grants that will help them quickly bring to market new ways to fight infectious diseases and to meet growing demand for food, fuel and raw materials.
University of Oregon companies receive venture grants
Portland Business Journal, 12/19/08
Four companies recently spun out of the University of Oregon have received $50,000 each from a fund created last year by the state Legislature.
On-Time Systems Receives a Contract from Air Force
Register Guard, 10/28/08
Research Park company, On-Time Systems, a Eugene software optimization firm, located in the Research Park, receives a contract from the U.S. Air Force, worth an estimated $5 million.
Globalization translates into growth opportunity
Register Guard 10/19/08
Avant Assessment, Riverfront Innovation Center Graduate, develops Web-based foreign language proficiency tests for education, government, and business.
Taking a Revolutionary Approach
Open for Business, 10/1/08
MitoSciences, one of three businesses that are revolutionizing their fields, vie for the 2008 Chamber of Commerce Emerald Award for Innovation.
Eugene firm will compete for $100,000 prize in Bend
Register Guard, 10/01/08
A bio-tech start-up that has spun out of the UO will vie for a minimum $100,000 in venture capital at the fifth annual Bend Venture Conference later this month.
MitoSciences received the 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation
UO Media Relations, 9/25/08
MitoSciences, started as a spinoff, by two UO scientist, wins the award for “Innovation” at the 5th annual Emerald Award.
The 2008 Emerald Award for innovation goes to MitoSciences, Inc.
Register Guard, 9/25/08
The Emerald Award for Innovation went to MitoSciences Inc, a biotech company founded by two scientists at the University of Oregon.
Floragenex receives $250,000 grant from ONAMI
Floragenex News 9/8/08
Floragenex, a Eugene, Oregon, based genetic research services firm, has received a $250,000 grant from the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) to fund the initial development of a microtechnology based DNA sequencing sample preparation system
Plans Progress for ORI Building
Oregon Research Institute, 7/19/08
Planning is well under way for a new 80,000-square-foot Oregon Research Institute building, with site work expected to begin early in 2009 at the University of Oregon’s Riverfront Research Park, the project’s architect said Friday.
University seeks $93 million for construction, renovations
Register Guard, 7/18/08
UO seeks funds to add a technology business incubator to a new building in the Riverfront Research Park that was funded by the 2007 Legislature.
Dune Sciences Awarded Phase 1 Small Business Innovative Research Grant
Dune Sciences, 5/29/08
Dune Sciences announced today that it has been awarded a $100,000 Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of Energy to develop a new technology to enable the conversion of forest waste products and other non-food biomass into liquid fuels.
ORI Will Construct New Office Building
Oregon Daily Emerald, 5/14/08
The Oregon Research Institute announced last week that it will partner with Trammell Crow Company of Portland to develop a new research building in the University's Riverfront Research Park.
ORI plans to move to Research Park, not Centre Court
Register Guard, 5/7/08
Oregon Research Institute chooses the site in the University of Oregon's Riverfront Reserach Park to building their proposed 80,000 square foot headquarters.
MitoSciences turns research into business
Register Guard, 4/17/08
MitoSciences, a local biotech company founded by two scientists at the University of Oregon, is on track for some rapid growth. (Click heading for full article with photo. Click here for summary article)
Invitrogen Teams with MitoSciences to Improve Mitochondrial Disease Research
Business Wire, 4/9/08
Invitrogen will become the exclusive North American distributor of all MitoSciences products, including antibodies and assays used for researching mitochondrial proteins and diseases. MitoSciences currently has the world's largest collection of anti-mitochondrial monoclonal antibodies and immunoassays.
Oregonian, 12/14/07
Research Park graduate, Sequential Biofuels, that built the first biofuel production facility in the state, receives the prestigious Governor's Gold Awards from Governor Ted Kulongoski.
Language Learning Solutions Rebrands As Avant Assessment
Avant News Press Release, 11/14/07
Language Learning Solutions, a spin-off from the UO's Center for Applied Language Studies at the University of Oregon, and world leader in Web-based language assessment, has changed their name to Avant Assessment.
The Register Guard, 11/9/07
SeQuential, a former Research Park tenant, produces about 1 million gallons of biodiesel a year, of which 99 percent is made from recycled cooking oil, and the company brings in another 3 million gallons of biodiesel from Midwest sources.
Tech start-ups embrace stiff competition for cash
The Register Guard, 10/15/07
Floragenex, a spin-out of lab research at the University of Oregon that has developed a faster, cheaper way to conduct genetic mapping of plants and animals, competes at the Bend Venture Conference with a group of 30 investors.
Plexeran and Mitosciences to develop ADME/Tox arrays
Business Wire, 9/26/2007
New mitrochondrial antibody assays will measure changes in the expression of proteins by mitochondria, which are often indicative of various disease pathologies and adverse drug effects.
Plexera Bioscience and MitoSciences Inc. Announce Collaboration on
Mitochondrial Array
Business Wire, 9/25/2007
Mitosciences and Plexera enter into an agreement which outlines a commercial path for an antibody array product which is enabled with Plexera's ProteomicProcessor and Mitosciences' proprietary antibodies.
Biodiesel Magazine , 6/30/07
Former tenant in the Riverfront Innovation Center, SeQuential Biofuels' Eugene station, that offers five different blends of ethanol and biodiesel, receives a grant to build second biofuel station in Portland.
UO, Other Schools Get Building Bonanza
The Register Guard, 6/28/07
Bonding approved for two projects in the Riverfront Research Park. $19.25 for new building and $14.37 million to purchase existing building at 1600 Millrace Drive.
Legislature approves historic higher education capital budget
OUS News Release, 6/27/07
Capital construction budget at the University of Oregon includes bonding for Riverfront Research Park Multi-Tenant building and Riverfront Research Park building purchase.
Businesses That Innovate Avoid Extinction
Open for Business, 12/1/06
SeQuential Biofuels, producing biodiesel from substances such as used cooking oil and canola, and Kaibridge, developed software called DinoMorph that builds highly accurate 3-D skeletal models of animals, and animates those models so they react to real-time forces.
UO spin-off EGI named Bioscience Company of the Year
Inside Oregon, 11/27/06
A UO spin-off company, Electrical Geodesics, Inc., was named the Oregon Bioscience Company of the Year during the 2006 Technology Awards.
Getting Recycling Down to a Science
The Register Guard, 11/15/06
Invitrogen, a biosciences company, demolished an old building and donates equipment and materials to the University of Oregon.
Emerald Awards Honor Local Businesses
Open for Business, 10/2006
SeQuential Biofuels was recognized with the Emerald Award for Innovation, for turning used cooking oil into biodiesel using a modular manufacturing plant and leading biodiesel efforts in Oregon.
Research Park Hosts U.S. Commerce Department Official
The Register-Guard 10/5/06
Sandy Baruah, U.S. Assistance Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, visits the Riverfront Research Park.
Eugene Firm Leads Optimization Market
The Register Guard, 9/24/06
On-Time systems designs software aimed at saving time and money for a number of different industries by sophisticated computer programs that use algorithms - or step-by-step problem-solving procedures to find the best solution for a problem out of trillions of possibilities.
Businesses Honored for Contributions
The Register Guard, 9/21/06
Rexius receives Emerald Award from Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce for "Environmental Values."
Lifelike, if Not Life-size: Software Guides Movement in Dino Images
Portland Business Journal, 9/15/06
DinoMorph software used at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Eugene Firm Wins Navy Contract
The Register Guard, 9/8/06
On Time Systems awarded a $1.43 million contract with the U.S. Navy to evaluate the potential cost savings if the Navy used the firms shipyard-scheduling software at its major repair yards.
SeQuential Biofuels to Open First Solar-Powered, Biofuels Station
PRNewswire, 8/23/06
The domestically produced, renewable motor fuel is available at Sequential Biofuels new station.
UO Plans to Build Research Facility
The Register Guard, 7/24/06
Plans to build a 55,000 -60,000 square foot building and to purchase the Park's flagship building at 1600 Millrace Drive are underway.
First University of Oregon Research Innovation Awards announced June 7
Inside Oregon, 6/12/06
UO faculty spin-off companies receive Oregon Research Innovation Awards. Those included are Allen Malony & Don Tucker for Cerebral Data Systems; Kent Stevens, Kaibridge, Carl Falsgraf, Language Learning Solutions; and Roderick Capaldi and Michael Marusich, Mitosciences.
New Coasters Push Thrills, and the Body, to the Limit
National Geographic News 5/24/06
Electrical Geodesics study why some park goers are paralyzed with fear; while others cant get enough death defying thrills.
UO Bioscience Startup Takes Top Honors at Angel Oregon Competition
Inside Oregon 3/6/06
MitoSciences, Inc, based on University of Oregon mitochondria research, took first place in the 2006 Angel Oregon competition.
The Register Guard, 2/26/06
Technology spin-offs shows record returns from inventions and boosts revenue by 77 percent last year.
Eugene Bioscience Company Rewarded
The Register Guard, 2/25/06
Mito Sciences, Inc. wins entrepreneurs competition and a $150,000 prize.
MitoSciences Captures Angel Oregon Prize
Portland Business Journal, 2/24/06
Mitosciences won both the vote from Angel Oregon audience members and designated investment teams attending the Angel Oregon competition, to capture the prize.
Streaking Sales Push Company to Expand
The Register Guard, 2/4/06
Electrical Geodesics, Inc. leases more space and expands its research and development operations.
K-16 Chinese Language Program Begins in Portland
Inquiry, winter 2005
The UO's Center for Applied Second Language Studies will develop the nation's first Chinese language program that begins in kindergarten and continues through the college years.
New Company Offers "Help Desk" for Supercomputing
Inquiry, winter 2005
ParaTools studies supercomputers and why and where inefficiencies are happening.
It's Not the Emmys, but Some Local Businesses are Stars
The Register Guard, 9/27/05
Emerald Award winners are selected from more than 70 nominations in four categories, including Innovation, Community Caring, Environmental Values, and Job Growth.
Cleaned-up Site to House Biofuels Station
The Register Guard, 9/26/05
Property on McVay Highway near Lane Community College is cleaned up and readied for biofuel station.
Newsweek 8/15/05
Electrical Geodesics' "sensor-net" are being used by researchers to monitor brain activity in babies.
Bytes & Bones Bring Digital Dinos to Life
The Register Guard, 6/26/05
DinoMorph is a dinosaur modeling software developed at the UO and is now licensed to a Eugene startup company called Kaibridge.
Highlight Digitizing Research of Oregon Professors
Inside Oregon 6/20/05
Kent Stevens, UO computer and Information Science Professor, focused research on creating a digital tool for parametric modeling on skeletons and using that tool to help scientists study dinosaurs.