As we close out 2021, HappyValley Industry is looking toward a new year of bringing you stories of success, challenges, innovation, and change that you won’t read anywhere else. Here are the stories we’re watching for 2022 and news about our expanded coverage, which will tell even more business stories beyond the tech sector in […]
Every week, HappyValley Industry publishes an eLetter featuring innovation, customer success — and some crazy-cool houses. Out of the 150-plus stories that we published this year, here are 10 of the most-clicked articles from 2021, along with a few reasons why they’re worth another read. “Something very, very impactful happening” in Happy Valley Videon’s Todd […]
What makes Lasers for Innovative Solutions, LLC (L4IS), developer of LATScan, so interesting is perhaps what it’s not. While most startups inside Innovation Park’s Tech Center Incubator have been started by PhD-holding researchers, Ben Hall joined the U.S. Navy and served in Operation Iraqi Freedom before enrolling at Penn State. As a student, he spent […]
Ben Franklin Technology Partners is looking for innovators with big ideas in Happy Valley, Clarion, Clearfield, and Jefferson Counties — and the winner takes home $50,000. “If you are developing or crafting a product, process or innovation related to the maker economy, outdoors and recreation, forest products, manufacturing or technology, you need to apply for […]
A group of Penn State researchers that received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy is aiming to improve the efficiency of turbines for power generation through the use of artificial intelligence. Wesley Reinhart, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State, said that higher efficiency […]
The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $2.9 million to Penn State researchers, to assist them in studying commercially-adaptable electric vehicle batteries with twice the energy density and cycle life of current technology. Donghai Wang, professor of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering, and an affiliate of the Penn State Battery and Energy Storage Technology Center, […]
