U.Va.'s Crowell Streaming Live on the Hill at 10 a.m.

UVAPF News Release
June 10, 2010

Tune in to watch U.Va. Associate Vice President W. Mark Crowell provide testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology today, June 10, at 10 a.m. Eastern/9 a.m. Central.

The hearing will be streamed live at http://science.house.gov/publications/hearings_markups_details.aspx?newsid=2855

UPDATE: Direct link to live webcast is http://science.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/science/59363/300_science-scitech_090819.asx

This hearing will focus on the role that improving technology commercialization of government-funded research can play in driving economic growth and job creation. Crowell will speak about several “national best practices” at U.Va., including the U.Va.-Coulter Translational Research Partnership.

To watch this hearing on the critical need to improve technology commercialization, go to the following website at 10 a.m. Eastern: http://science.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/science/59363/300_science-scitech_090819.asx

For more information about the hearing, including copies of testimony, see: http://science.house.gov/publications/hearings_markups_details.aspx?newsid=2855

Prepared testimony will be disseminated after the hearing.

UPDATE: Crowell's testimony is available as a PDF at the following link: http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/file/Commdocs/hearings/2010/Research/10jun/Crowell_Testimony.pdf

For more information or to schedule interviews, contact Morgan Estabrook, outreach and communications manager for the U.Va. Patent Foundation, at 434.982.4191 or morgan@uvapf.org.

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