Profiles
John Parks
New executive director finds Innovista has two strong selling points: warm weather and hot prospects for research and development.
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Dr. Harris Pastides
As vice president for Research and Health Sciences at the University, Pastides helped drive Innovista to become reality.
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Kenneth Reifsnider
Alternative energy expert Kenneth Reifsnider has joined the University to lead the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program.
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Myriam Torres
Myriam Torres directs the University of South Carolina’s Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies.
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Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson, a partner with Pequot Venture, thinks Innovista's private tenants will have a lot in common with the types of businesses his firm invests in.
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Golden Prospects
Four University of South Carolina graduate students researched prospective tenants for Innovista and found a number of intriguing possibilities.
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Big-City Creativity
Three high-end creative shops with big-city global clients have chosen Columbia’s Vista as their home.
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Working-glass artists
Two South Carolina graduates produce fine blown-glass art from their Vista studio, One Eared Cow Glass.
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Cultural Cornerstones
The Carolina Coliseum, Colonial Center, The School of Music and The Koger Center for the Arts form
Innovista’s cultural and entertainment hub.
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Lanard Stafford
South Carolina student Lanard Stafford is an electrical engineering major and plays football for the South Carolina Gamecocks.
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Arnold School of Public Health
Founded 32 years ago, the school has the nation’s top-ranked doctoral program in kinesiology and
exercise science and a growing reputation in many of its other academic disciplines.
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Collexis
Collexis is a Columbia-based knowledge software developer engaged in research projects with the University to develop smarter, faster online searching applications in areas such as alternative fuels and medicine.
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Gecko Energy Technologies
The New Jersey-based firm
is commercializing fuel cell technology with its patented PowerSkin™, an external covering for electronic devices that replaces battery power with energy from fuel cells.
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Loccioni Group
The global firm, voted Best Workplaces Italy, sets up shop as a "technological couture-house."
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