Yearly Archives: 2015

Missouri S&T Develops Microsatellite for Air Force

Dr. Hank Pernicka, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, and his students won the final round of an Air Force competition to develop the spacecraft. Pernicka and ... Read More

St. Louis: The tech capital for cancer

Goggles that can see cancer cells the naked eye cannot. Lasers that extract proteins from tumors to develop personalized cancer medicine. A camera that captures up to 100 billion frames per ... Read More

Brewer Science tapped to develop new technology for military

Brewer Science Wednesday announced a new cooperative agreement at Missouri State University’s Jordan Valley Innovation Center for developing and commercializing new nanotechnology with a wide range of applications to protect servicemen ... Read More

Chesterfield medical billing firm to open Cuba facility

National Medical Billing Services (NMBS) is planning to open a new facility in Cuba, Missouri. The planned $213,000 expansion project will create 11 new jobs, with the possibility for “significant” further job ... Read More

Columbia and St. Louis included in the Top 10 college towns and cities in America

The listomaniacs at Wallet Hub have released another ranking, one that puts Columbia and STL in the Top 10: Best college cities and towns. Number crunchers looked at 23 areas — ... Read More

Boulevard selects site for new distribution center

Boulevard Brewing Co. announced that it entered into a long-term lease for a new distribution center in Kansas City that will give it three times more space. As the Kansas City ... Read More

Fast-growing tech firm will move HQ to Kansas City

Unite Private Networks, a fast-growing provider of high-bandwidth, fiber-based communications services, is moving its headquarters to Kansas City, where it will add as many as 30 new jobs in five years. ... Read More

Cerner will invest $500M in data center facility in Lee’s Summit

The company plans to buy space it has been leasing for a data center and add equipment there, The Lee’s Summit Journal reports. The North Kansas City-based health care IT company ... Read More

Indian AgTech Company to Establish US HQ at Helix Center

The Missouri Department of Economic Development announced today that Indian AgTech company Lacgene Technologies is establishing its U.S. headquarters at the Helix Center Biotech Incubator in St. Louis, Missouri. The U.S. ... Read More

More than $1 billion to be invested in Missouri’s military aviation industry

Provisions in the omnibus bill include: $1 billion for seven EA-18G Growlers and five F-18E/F Super Hornets – built at Boeing’s St. Louis facility $29.5 million for the construction of a ... Read More