The Toller Celebration Bell at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House will ring at noon Thursday, June 24 to honor a team of University of Arkansas graduate students who placed first in the 2010 Licensing Executives Society Foundation’s International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition. The team includes Stephen Ritterbush, Seth Shumate, Douglas Hutchings and Brent Bertelsen.
Team members presented their plan to bring higher efficiency, lower cost solar power to the world through Silicon Solar Solutions LLC. They are working on commercializing a patented materials process for creating large grain polysilicon, which would help manufacturers increase solar panel efficiency and reduce costs.
