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Mohawk’s Mobile and Electronic Health Development and Innovation Centre now a multi-million dollar initiative Hamilton, Ontario (PRWEB) August 29, 2012 Mohawk College’s Mobile and Electronic Health Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC) received $800,000 in funding from the province of Ontario. Combined with the same amount in federal funding and additional investments on the part of the college and its industry partners, MEDIC has become a multi-million dollar research...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Bobak Ferdowsi, now famously known as NASA's Mohawk Guy, is a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that put the Curiosity rover on the Martian surface in early August. He will host a two-hour online broadcast on Internet radio station Third Rock Radio at 4pm EDT, August 30. Ferdowsi, who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, will be discussing his experience with the landing of...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that lowered the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface in early August, will host a two-hour online broadcast on Internet radio station Third Rock Radio at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, August 30. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The show, entitled "Getting Curious with the Mohawk Guy," will feature Ferdowsi...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Curiosity just keeps the images coming, as NASA unleashed a few more photos this week taken by and of the latest Martian rover. The Mars Science Laboratory entered the Martian atmosphere on August 5, and mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been spending their week checking out Curiosity's ten instruments and updating software for its mission. While we wait for the rover to begin its trek, NASA has been...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity landing and the early images captured by the NASA rover have garnered a lot of attention over the past week, but they aren't the only ones gaining fame as a result of the mission. In fact, one of the dozens of scientists awaiting the "seven minutes of terror" at NASA's mission control facility on Sunday night was a 32-year-old flight engineer and Oakland, California native known as Bobak...

COHOES, N.Y., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mohawk has named George William Wurtz III to its Board of Directors. Wurtz is currently CEO and President of WinCup Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of a broad line of disposable foodservice products. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120531/NE16747 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120416/NE87906LOGO ) With a 25-year history in the manufacturing of paper and packaging products, Wurtz has held executive...

Mohawk College receives funding from The Canada Foundation for Innovation. (PRWEB) May 28, 2012 The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has chosen Mohawk College’s eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC) to be one of seventeen research initiatives that will receive a portion of its College-Industry Innovation Fund. Of the $15.3 million of investment funding aimed to support Canadian colleges, cégeps and polytechnics, $800,000 will be invested in Mohawk’s MEDIC. The...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- HYDRANT announced today the launch of Mohawk's new e-commerce web site at www.mohawkconnects.com. The site represents a redesign and consolidation of several existing web properties, and features a new brand identity designed by Pentagram. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120417/CG88137) As one of the world's premier manufacturers of fine papers, envelopes, and digital printing substrates, Mohawk runs a complex...

COHOES, N.Y., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the announcement last week of plans to transform this fourth-generation, family-owned, premium paper business to thrive in today's digital world, Mohawk Chairman & CEO Thomas D. O'Connor, Jr., said, "Today, we are making bold changes across every aspect of our business with the launch of multiple customer-facing initiatives that provide tangible evidence of the company's vision and new experiences for customers." (Logo:...

COHOES, N.Y., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At launch events held in New York over the last three weeks for customers and employees, Mohawk Fine Papers revealed its blueprint to transform its premium paper business to thrive in today's digital world. In his presentations, Thomas D. O'Connor, Jr., Chairman & CEO, Mohawk, the largest premium paper company in North America, outlined his vision for the future. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120410/NE84787 )...