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Iowa
Governor Appoints
New Economic
Development Director |
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|  With
economic growth as the focus of his second term, Governor
Tom Vilsack has appointed Michael T. Blouin as the
new director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development
(IDED). His charge from the governor is to energize
Iowa's economy with higher-paying jobs and business
start-ups.
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Iowa
State Innovation Mainstreams Virtual Reality |
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| Virtual
Reality (VR) was once a technology reserved only for
science fiction. Today, an innovation by Iowa State
University may bring it into everyday life.
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Iowa
3-D Firm Merges with Chief Competitor for Global Leadership |
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| Mechdyne
Corporation or Marshalltown, Iowa, announced it would
merge with Fakespace Systems Inc. of Kitchener, Ontario,
to become a visualization industry powerhouse. Together,
the two former arch-rivals will bring the best of
both worlds to the table, making their companies forerunners
in the global marketplace.
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| University
Researchers Developing Dental Simulator |
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| Haptic,
or touch-sensitive, computer simulators that will
help train dental students to elicit and recognize
the sensations in a dentist's fingertips are being
developed at the University of Iowa's Center for Computer-Aided
Design. University of Iowa professor and researcher
Geb Thomas has received a $330,225 award from the
National Science Foundation for the project.
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Des
Moines Arts Festival Named Nearly the Best in U.S. |
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The
Des Moines Arts Festival, one of Iowa's largest community
events, has been named the sixth best fine arts festival
in the nation, up from seventh last year. The ranking
publication, the ArtFair SourceBook, is the
preeminent annual
guide to the best arts festivals and craft fairs in
the country. The festival has climbed from 117th in
1998 to its current sixth place ranking for the 2003
show.
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