Angelina Jolie’s aunt dies of breast cancer
BBCnews: Angelina Jolie’s aunt has died of breast cancer, nearly two weeks after the Hollywood star said she had had a double mastectomy to avoid such a fate.
Year: 2013
Nike cuts ties with Livestrong
AP: Nike, which helped build Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong cancer charity into a global brand, is cutting ties with the foundation in the latest fallout from the former cyclist’s doping scandal.
Expanding universe
BY LINDA BAKER | OB EDITOR
The recession took a toll on Knowledge Universe-US, the largest private provider of child care in the country. A new CEO aims to turn things around.
Greenlighting design
Eleek co-owner Sattie Clark builds a family-owned business around sustainable lighting.
Froelick Gallery’s art dealer
One of the city’s iconic gallery owners and former president of the Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA), Charles Froelick caters mostly to individual collectors. But the number of institutional and corporate buyers grows every year.
The art whisperer
A consultant targets high performance artwork.
Design for change
Eric Park is a creative director at Ziba Design, a design consultancy based in Portland. For nearly 20 years, he has helped lead research and design innovation programs in consumer goods, durable products and health care.
Positive cash flow
Venture capitalists pumped $70.4 million into Oregon companies in the first quarter of 2013, a 142% increase over the same quarter in 2012 and equal to 80% of what Washington firms raked in.
Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler balances life, work, play
Ted Wheeler, 50, became Oregon state treasurer in 2010, when the state budget was still reeling from the economic downturn. Despite his busy political career, Wheeler remains a committed family man.
Winning display
For the past two decades, the liquid display industry has revolved around thin film transistors: semiconductor devices that are manufactured on one of the two glass panels that make up an LCD display. Now a Corvallis-based startup, Amorphyx, has developed an alternative to the transistor, which acts as a dimmer switch controlling the amount of light coming through the display screen.