(Spring Creek & Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design (www.montie.com), an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, today announced Luca Harrell (Va Tech), Jake Eck (NCSU), and Josh Little (NCSU) as the winners of its Winter 2012 Student Design Contest. The competition tasked aspiring product designers with developing camp cooking, washing, or equipment storage and organizational products that would fit with the Montie Gear line (www.montiegear.com) of outdoor, shooting, hunting, archery, and camping products. Read the rest of this entry →

(Charlotte, N.C.) EO Charlotte, a chapter of the globally recognized Entrepreneurs’ Organization, sent 50 of its members to Atlanta for the April 19-21 NERVE 2012. The event is the first retreat experience across the EO Charlotte Chapter and illustrates the chapter’s commitment to learning together with other entrepreneurs from across the globe. As the East Coast Regional Conference for the global organization, NERVE 2012 offers participating EO members a two-day EO University-type experience that promises to make the weekend a once in a lifetime event. Read the rest of this entry →

(Winston-Salem, N.C.) Lighthouse Christian Preschool in Antioch, a Nashville-area preschool whose schoolhouse was vividly captured in the news floating down Interstate 24 in May 2010, two years later is now thriving – its students are achieving better outcomes and are better prepared to begin kindergarten. The preschool’s success has been in part due to contributions from the television show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and from Hatch®, a leading provider of technology and education materials for early learning. Read the rest of this entry →

(Charlotte, N.C.) The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE:BWC) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has received full notice to proceed (FNTP) for the engineering, design, procurement and construction of a waste-to-energy power plant and environmental control equipment for the Solid Waste Authority (SWA) of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach, Fla. Read the rest of this entry →

(Raleigh, N.C.) Stackpole today announced the release of its RACF10 Series of concave thick film chip resistor arrays. The RACF102D is a two-element array in a 0404 overall package size. The RACF104D is a four-element array in a 0408 overall package size. Chip resistor arrays offer a significant space savings over discrete chip resistors as well as improved tolerance and TCR tracking. The RACF10 size is available with a 5% tolerance. The RACF10 Series provides a space savings of more than 60% versus the RACF16 Series. Read the rest of this entry →

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Tranzyme Pharma (Nasdaq:TZYM), today announced that it will host a conference call on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 8:30 am ET to discuss first quarter 2012 financial results. The Company will report first quarter 2012 financial results after the close of the market on Thursday, May 10, 2012. Read the rest of this entry →

(Morrisville, N.C.) Furiex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: FURX) today reported its financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. Furiex was spun off from Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. (PPD) as a separate public company effective June 14, 2010. Furiex continues the compound partnering business started by PPD in 1998. Read the rest of this entry →

(Washington, D.C.) U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (NC) has voiced her support for Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations to strengthen responses to environmental exposures at military installations. Yesterday, the GAO released the report titled DOD Can Improve Its Response to Environmental Exposures on Military Installations, which recommends measures for the Department of Defense to improve identification of and responses to environmental exposures. Read the rest of this entry →

(Cary, N.C.) Former Cary mayor Glen Lang’s Connexion Technologies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday with the intention to sell itself after DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV) terminated its contracts with the company, pushing the already cash-depleted Connexion over the edge. The company, which claimed between $100 million and $500 million in debts and fewer than $500,000 worth of assets, asked the court Friday to approve $4 million in bankruptcy financing from the UniCredit Bank’s (BUNC.UR) New York branch so that it can continue to operate during its Chapter 11 case. Read the rest of this entry →

(Charlotte, N.C.) The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE:BWC) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W Canada) has been awarded a contract valued at more than $25 million from SaskPower to design and replace the upper frontwall and a portion of the reheater at SaskPower’s Shand Power Station near Estevan, Saskatchewan. Shand Power Station features boiler technology originally designed and supplied by B&W Canada. This retrofit project is an integral part of the coal-fired station’s life extension. Read the rest of this entry →

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) MCNC today announced the first round of the $144 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI) is complete.  All broadband fiber associated with this phase of the project is now active and serving Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs) including K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, health care facilities, public health facilities, libraries, research institutions, and other sectors of CAIs in western and southeastern North Carolina. Through first-phase commercial partner FRC LLC, which invested $4 million into the project, fiber is now available to serve commercial businesses and last-mile consumer broadband needs in these same regions. Read the rest of this entry →

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Precision BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the field of genome engineering, today announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Cellectis SA (ALCLS) and a number of its affiliates in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The lawsuit seeks a ruling that Cellectis’ manufacture, use, sale, and importation of certain engineered meganucleases infringe U.S. Patent No. 8,163,514, which relates to Precision BioSciences’ industry-leading Directed Nuclease Editor™ genome engineering technology. The lawsuit requests monetary damages as well as a permanent injunction preventing Cellectis from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing infringing engineered meganucleases in the United States. Precision BioSciences previously announced that it had filed suit against Cellectis for alleged infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,021,867, 8,119,381, 8,119,361, 8,124,369, 8,129,134, 8,133,697, 8,143,015, 8,143,016, and 8,148,098. Read the rest of this entry →