How Wharton students are using an app to push for a sustainable campus Students gather at an on-campus Penn Sustainability event. Penn Sustainability is hosting a series of ReThink Your Footprint engagement events through Oct. 19. How Wharton students are using an app to push for a sustainable campus Through a Penn Green Fund grant, students in the Wharton School helped develop and pilot the Wharton Green Tracker App, meant to unite the campus’s sustainability community.
By the Numbers: Penn Center for Innovation By the Numbers By the Numbers: Penn Center for Innovation The Penn Center for Innovation presented its fiscal 2018 “Year in Review,” showcasing its achievements in commercial activities.
Revitalizing and expanding Penn GSE’s space for modern learning The entrance to 3700 Walnut St. will include a new lobby that leads to a four-story student pavilion. Rendering courtesy of Atkin Olshin Schade Architects. Revitalizing and expanding Penn GSE’s space for modern learning The planned building expansion for the Graduate School of Education adds more than just space: It brings a new approach to building design to accommodate new technologies and spaces for collaboration.
The business of voting The business of voting The chaos that befell the 2000 election sparked a revamping of the election technology industry. Wharton experts have drafted a report detailing the business side of modernizing voting technology.
STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers As part of SMASH Wharton, rising 10th graders spend almost the entirety of their summer breaks on Penn’s campus, taking rigorous STEM and business courses. STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers As part of the SMASH Wharton program, 35 students live and breathe college life in the summer, staying for three years in Harnwell College House and taking classes at Huntsman Hall.
A ‘smart-connected cup’ to fight Zika A ‘smart-connected cup’ to fight Zika By combining a a Thermos, a microfluidics chip and a smartphone, researchers have found a way to bring Zika testing to sites where clinical laboratories aren’t present but diagnostics are needed.
Penn Makes Third Big Biotech Bet, Helping to Raise $53M for Carisma Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Penn Makes Third Big Biotech Bet, Helping to Raise $53M for Carisma Cancer-fighting biotech company Carisma Therapeutics Inc. is the latest addition to Penn’s recently-announced investment plan. Roy Rosin, CIO at Penn Medicine, said, “Penn’s commitment is pretty exciting for this region.” Penn Invests $50 million in Biotech in a Bold Bid to Build Philly’s Innovation Cluster Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Penn Invests $50 million in Biotech in a Bold Bid to Build Philly’s Innovation Cluster Kevin B. Mahoney of the Perelman School of Medicine and UPHS confirmed Penn’s plans to invest in biotech companies, with long-range goals “to create jobs, synergy and an innovation cluster around Penn technology and spin outs.” A cryptocurrency collaboration A cryptocurrency collaboration A partnership with Ripple, the University Blockchain Research Initiative, will bring innovation to cryptocurrency and blockchain. A chemotherapy companion to save thousands of lives A chemotherapy companion to save thousands of lives A trio of Penn students created the startup Sanguis, producing an inexpensive, portable blood cell counting device. Load More
Penn Invests $50 million in Biotech in a Bold Bid to Build Philly’s Innovation Cluster Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Penn Invests $50 million in Biotech in a Bold Bid to Build Philly’s Innovation Cluster Kevin B. Mahoney of the Perelman School of Medicine and UPHS confirmed Penn’s plans to invest in biotech companies, with long-range goals “to create jobs, synergy and an innovation cluster around Penn technology and spin outs.” A cryptocurrency collaboration A cryptocurrency collaboration A partnership with Ripple, the University Blockchain Research Initiative, will bring innovation to cryptocurrency and blockchain. A chemotherapy companion to save thousands of lives A chemotherapy companion to save thousands of lives A trio of Penn students created the startup Sanguis, producing an inexpensive, portable blood cell counting device.
A cryptocurrency collaboration A cryptocurrency collaboration A partnership with Ripple, the University Blockchain Research Initiative, will bring innovation to cryptocurrency and blockchain.
A chemotherapy companion to save thousands of lives A chemotherapy companion to save thousands of lives A trio of Penn students created the startup Sanguis, producing an inexpensive, portable blood cell counting device.