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Startup emerges from Conn Center, earns national grant

January 12, 2015

Bert Thin Films LLC, a company originating from the University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, has received a $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and commercialize a new material to reduce the costs of manufacturing solar cells.

UofL Foundation to administer state small business program

January 9, 2015

The University of Louisville Foundation has been tabbed as the administrator for a program aimed at providing money to Kentucky’s small businesses. Governor Beshear announced the new program, called VenCap Kentucky, on Wednesday.