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Siena College, of Loudonville, N.Y., and Evident Technologies will host a Web seminar August 7 at 10 a.m. featuring scientific leaders who lead the development of semiconductor nanocrystals technology. The seminar, jointly sponsored by Siena and Evident with the support of the Center for Economic Growth and Time Warner Cable, is part of the inauguration of a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop an undergraduate nanotechnology curriculum at Siena.

For more information, visit: www.evidenttech.com/seminar . . . Harris Corp. announced it has approved an agreement with the University of Florida College of Engineering in Gainesville, Fla., to promote research and development in a variety of engineering fields. . . . BTG has announced a collaboration agreement with Union Chemical Laboratories, of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), in Hsinchu, Taiwan, to develop and commercialize a patented light-emitting polymer technology for flexible organic/polymer light-emitting diode (OLED/PLED) information displays. The portfolio of patents and patent applications, licensed to BTG by Ohio State University, covers devices, fabrication processes and materials designed to enable the production of OLED/PLED information displays with enhanced performance and extended product life. Under the collaboration, BTG and ITRI will contribute know-how, technical staff, laboratory facilities and specialized equipment and funding for development of the technology. The project will begin at Ohio State's MicroMD Laboratory, where a team of researchers will work in the chemistry and clean-room facilities to develop the technology into initial functional prototypes. Further development will take place at UCL.