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Clemson continues to earn tech sustainability awards

By Mike Switzer

Published March 25, 2022 at 5:30 AM EDT

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For the second consecutive year, our next guest’s department at Clemson University has been awarded the InnoVision Technology Sustainability Award, this time for research involving nylon and molecular zippers. Mike Switzer interviews James Sternberg, senior scientist at the Clemson Composites Center in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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