When they launched Camp Marketing Services — today known as My Online Camp — back in 2006, co-founders Don Myers, Andy Priestley and Matthew Mann had a modest goal: To remove the administrative headaches of running camps for coaches. While the team had a hunch back...
NewLink Genetics Corporation announced today that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the United States Department of Defense has awarded a subsidiary of NewLink Genetics an $8.1 million base contract with future options totaling $5.2 million to support...
Pharmaceutical Giant Develops Growth Model in Ames Used Globally It would have been hard for Dr. Mike Roof to envision where he is today, considering his modest beginnings in the Iowa State University (ISU) Research Park. More than two decades ago, as a graduate...
Vermeer Corp. has announced plans to build a new Applied Technology Hub at the Iowa State University Research Park, adding to the park’s continued expansion in recent years and creating an opportunity to develop and recruit talent. The Pella-based Vermeer, which...
Despite growing up hundreds of miles away in Michigan, something about Ames, Iowa always felt like home to Kristine Johansen. As a child, she would eagerly anticipate visits her grandparents’ farm on the outskirts of town, spending time with family – and the animals –...
Bill Adamowski isn’t one to back down from a challenge. Since graduating from Syracuse University in the late 1980’s, he has been presented with plenty of “resume building” opportunities in a variety of capacities in organizations large and small. From his work as a...
As an Iowa-based company, Vermeer Manufacturing has always had a close relationship with Iowa State University. And in recent years, that relationship has only grown closer as Vermeer has established a physical presence in Ames, just minutes from where its next...
The digital age, with all its complexity, began at Iowa State University in 1942 when ISU physics professor John Atanasoff and assistant Clifford Berry built the “ABC” (Atanasoff Berry Computer), the world’s first digital electronic computer – to save them the trouble...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Event: GlobalVetLINK Named Technology Company of the Year And the Prometheus Award Goes to . . . Des Moines, Iowa (April 9th, 2014) – GlobalVetLINK (GVL®) was honored at the Prometheus Awards hosted by the Technology Association of Iowa, when the...
Ames has been ranked among the top cities in the country for having a high-density of high-tech start-up companies. A report released this week by technology policy coalition Engine and entrepreneurship research association the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation placed...
