Pennsylvania awarded LCCC $5 million to stand up hands‑on training to prepare local workers for jobs at Eli Lilly’s $3.5B Lehigh Valley plant. The program will mirror Wake Tech’s apprenticeship model.

Rogers State is building a $35M Robson Center in Claremore to centralize lab-based STEM programs and expand teacher-prep and campus facilities. The three-story building will add maker spaces, robotics bays and new student amenities.

After a 14‑month collaboration, Panther Life Sciences will establish a manufacturing and materials unit in Pittsburgh after validating production at Pitt’s BioForge. The move boosts Hazelwood Green’s biotech pipeline.

Postr will open a 10,000‑sq‑ft Wynwood HQ in August and launch an automated marketplace that matches brands with pre‑vetted creators.

A UF‑led imaging study mapped 16 million pancreatic cells and found immune attack on beta cells starts well before symptoms, highlighting new early targets.

BayCare says it will partner with Zipline to deliver prescriptions, lab samples and urgent supplies by drone from Pinellas County starting in late 2027. The system will use tethered pods and local charging stations to speed deliveries across Tampa Bay.

The Department of Energy named Fishers-based American Resources among five projects in a $75M pilot to recover rare earths from coal, spotlighting central Indiana’s refining plans.

Milan-based Bending Spoons priced 58M shares at $29 on Nasdaq, raising about $1.7B as the stock jumped and investors priced its plan to revive AOL, Vimeo and Eventbrite.

At 50, SAS is publicly mapping an AI-first strategy while executives say they've prepped systems for a potential IPO — but founder Jim Goodnight still calls the timing.

ULA is set to launch an Atlas V 551 from Cape Canaveral in a pre‑dawn window to place 29 Amazon Leo satellites into low Earth orbit as Amazon scales its broadband constellation.

SSM Health St. Anthony is using the FDA‑approved TAMBE graft to treat complex thoracoabdominal aneurysms locally, shortening wait times and speeding recoveries.

A University of Minnesota team built lab-made “spudcells” that feed, grow and split — a technical step in synthetic biology that also revives oversight questions.

Oklahoma City‑based Tobe Energy has launched NODE‑01 and says it will mount its first commercial hydrogen deployment at Zeeco’s Broken Arrow test complex later this year.