Massachusetts Recovery Update
Week of December 19, 2010 Happy Holidays from the MA Recovery & Reinvestment Office!Quote of the Week:"Renewable energy investments like these are creating jobs while helping to maintain America's global competitiveness in the clean energy economy." US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, on the stimulus-funded loan guarantees worth nearly $3 billion for two of the largest renewable energy construction projects in the world. FACES OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY
"I am really grateful we got this stimulus grant so we can continue to work on this product that we really believe in."
Jeanne Ellis, a formulation chemist at Vista Scientific, on the $1.6 million grant her company received to move forward with its development of a lens that can dispense medication when inserted in the eye. YOUR RECOVERY DOLLARS AT WORK: NEWS & UPDATESDon't Miss Out: Recovery & Reinvestment blog: Helping the most vulnerable heal Read more. Stimulus Stories: The eyes have it: Ensuring vision health, with help from stimulusVista Scientific has developed a device that can deliver medications for an extended period of time through a lens inserted in the eye. The device has implications for the treatment of glaucoma as well as nearly all eye infections and diseases -- and a stimulus grant is helping the company get it developed. Read more.
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