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26 Apr, 2021 To help address the world’s need for clean energy, Colorado State University, the Wright Center for Photovoltaics at the University of Toledo, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have teamed with U.S.-based companies to form the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Cadmium Telluride (US-MAC) photovoltaics consortium. Jim Sites, professor in the CSU Department of Physics who serves on the consortium’s three-member executive committee, has spent the last several decades le...

Sponsored by: Neukom Institute Categories: Conferences, Lectures & Seminars The Wright Center for the Study of Computation & Just Communities: A Seminar in "Data Justice" - presentations surveying how data has been and continues to be brought to bear on issues of justice. Please sign up here. Learn more about the Wright Center here.   Speakers: 4/20 - Jared Holt, Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council 4/27 - Amiya Bhatia, Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology & Child Protection, London School of...

Gibbons | Ballotpedia SCRANTON – A state court judge has granted a preliminary injunction and compelled the landlord for a Scranton medical center to repair the sprinkler system in its leased space, incur the cost for doing so and further stayed a notice of default the landlord sought to levy over the medical center.   The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education and The Wright Center Medical Group first filed suit in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas on...

MacDonald | Durkin MacDonald SCRANTON – A wrongful death and survival lawsuit claims that a number of medical entities based in Lackawanna County are to blame for the death of a woman who was prescribed lithium, against the pattern of treatment established by her prior physician. Damian Hunter (as personal representative and administrator of the Estate of Dawn Race) of Carbondale filed suit in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas on March 3 versus Dr. Sangee...

GAMBIER — More than 120 student-workers at Kenyon College picketed and marched across their colleges picturesque campus here Tuesday during what organizers claim is the first known undergraduate student-labor strike in the country. A majority of Kenyon College student workers at five on-campus workplaces last week voted in favor of an unfair labor practices strike for what they say is dissatisfaction with the colleges student-work program during the pandemic. The Kenyon Student Worker...

Sileo | The Wright Center SCRANTON – A medical center claims its landlord has failed to repair the sprinkler system in its leased tenant space, leaving it at tremendous risk for physical damage and loss of life in the event of a fire. The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education and The Wright Center Medical Group filed suit in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas on Feb. 24 versus Wyoming Avenue Development, LLC. All parties are of Scranton “The parti...

By Dian Schaffhauser 02/26/21 The University of Toledo just received a five-year, $12.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force to develop flexible solar cell sheets for space. The photovoltaic energy sheets will be used to collect solar energy for powering Earth-based receivers or other orbital or aerial instrumentation, such as communications satellites. Physicists at the institution will develop flexible solar cell sheets, each about the size of a piece of paper, which can be assembled and con...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Dr. Randall Ellingson, professor of physics at The University of Toledo, received a $12.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force to develop space-based solar energy sheets to transmit clean... view more  Credit: The University of Toledo The military is adding fuel to the momentum of physicists at The University of Toledo who are advancing new frontiers in thin-film, highly efficient, low-cost photovoltaic technology to ensure a clean energy future. The U.S. Air Force awa...

Pennsylvanians are willing to drive hundreds of miles to get the coronavirus vaccines they can't get closer to home.

Kelly Conway, left, and her mother, Maureen Conway, pose for a photo at a COVID-19 vaccination site in January. Kelly made a 350-mile round trip from Montgomery County to get Maureen from her home in Plains Twp. to a vaccination provider in Montrose about two weeks ago. After seeing her father, Jim, suffer for two weeks before losing his life to COVID-19 on Nov. 10, Kelly wants to make sure her mother is vaccinated as soon as possible.