What’s in a Name (Image & Likeness)?
The NCAA’s new policy for Name, Image and Likeness—which allows student-athletes to earn income for their personal brands and talents—is disrupting college athletics. How important is it for Penn State to play the NIL game? Who is driving the bus on answering the key strategic questions before all the tactics start flying around? Before the Supreme […]
From Boring to Breakthrough: How a Penn State Student Broke a Bottleneck & Invented the Future of Ag Research
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 […]
Next-generation Energy Storage Research and the Future of Electric Vehicles
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, […]
Penn State Just Hired a Marketer as its New President and We Are Here For It
Neeli Bendapudi, currently president and professor of marketing at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, has been unanimously named Penn State’s next president by the Penn State Board of Trustees on Dec. 9. With a nearly 30-year career in academia, Bendapudi has: Taught marketing at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels at several universities Received numerous […]
CIMP-3D at Penn State Is Expanding Capabilities in Additive Manufacturing
The move benefits DoD, manufacturing and R&D around the U.S. Penn State’s Innovation Park-based Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D) is expanding its already-world-class capabilities in metal-based additive manufacturing. It’s a move that will benefit the Department of Defense, American manufacturing companies and researchers around the globe. “The university performs […]
Penn State Moves into Top 25 for Entrepreneurship Studies
In just a year, Penn State has moved up 15 spots to 21 in the Princeton Review and Entrepreneurship magazine’s 2022 top schools for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies. Penn State’s growing entrepreneurship ecosystem includes areas of focus inside and outside the classroom. In addition to the Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship major through Smeal College of Business, […]
How Happy Valley Won a Biotech Facility Over “Cellicon” Valley
Innovation Park at Penn State will welcome BioMagnetic Solutions to 310 Innovation Boulevard as the company invests in a multi-million dollar cGMP-grade production facility. The announcement follows BioMagnetic Solutions’ January 2021 acquisition by Gamma Biosciences, a global life sciences company serving the advanced therapy market. BioMagnetic Solutions is a next-generation cell selection and bioseparation technology […]
Here’s How Penn State Helps Get Businesses Launched
In the years since it began as a land-grant institution aimed at providing an agricultural education, Penn State has been inspiring entrepreneurs, innovators and small-business owners, helping them move their ideas from research to the marketplace. It’s a mix of infrastructure, expertise and research … with a big helping of Penn State grit and innovation […]
Penn State’s Learning Factory Challenges Students to Solve Real-World Problems
Research shows that project-based learning better prepares students for their futures. In the engineering world, it’s not enough to simply have theoretical knowledge and technical breadth. You also need that spark of innovation and creativity that often only comes when you mix education with real-world experience. Enter the Learning Factory. What started as a shop […]
