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Salimetrics Launches a Game-Changing, Saliva-Based, COVID-19 Antibody Test
Image: Salimetrics Since COVID-19 began its global rampage, researchers have scrambled to better understand the natural protective immunity that humans develop after exposure to the virus. As states grappled with the effects of the pandemic and made strides toward...
Invent Penn State’s VIP Conference Spurs Economic Development through Innovation
Image: @webcurtpsu The Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference is one of the largest tech startup conferences in the Mid-Atlantic, drawing over 800 attendees from startups and investment firms around the country. On April 15 and 16, the conference leveraged Penn...
Renovations at Technology Center Incubator at Innovation Park Bring New Resources
Image: Innovation Park Since 1992, the Technology Center at Innovation Park has been at the epicenter of the region’s most formalized small business incubation program… the “garage” to dozens of startup companies. Schoolwires (now Blackboard), Mission Critical...
Center for Socially Responsible AI Aims to Help Companies “Get it Right”
Image: Adobe Stock In March, the Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence awarded $93,000 to five research projects that consider the ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence. “We recognize that AI has the potential for...
Penn State Research Teams Partner with PA Manufacturers and Earn Manufacturing PA Innovation Grants
Image: Shutterstock Funded projects provide student engagement and faculty research opportunities with Pennsylvania manufacturers This March, five Penn State research teams were awarded grants through the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development...
Business, Education and Research: How Innovation Park Provides the Perfect Environment for Industry Innovation
Image: Salimetrics In 1989, Penn State University Trustees designated an area near the university’s football stadium for a research park “where collaboration between the university and private sector companies can grow," transferring university-based knowledge "to the...
Virtual Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference, April 15-16
Image: Invent Penn State If you or someone you know is seeking expert advice, there’s no better place to look than the Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference (and you don’t even need to be Penn State-affiliated to participate!). The two-day event kicks off...
Impulse Technology Makes Strides in Restoring Mobility for Amputees
Image: Invent Penn State In the span of a single minute, two people have lost a limb somewhere in the world. Research shows that there are approximately 1 million amputations around the world — and 185,000 in the U.S. — every year. However, traditional prosthetics...
Aleo BME’s Elaskin Finding Consumer Market Success for Wound Care
Image: Aleo BME Dressings and bandages are commonly used as go-to solutions for most minor wounds. But they’re not the ideal option in many cases. For anyone who needs a flexible, waterproof bandage that can keep wounds clean and protected, even while working in...
Happy Valley Tech at Center of Post-Pandemic Movement Toward Automation
Image: Sensor Networks As the 2020 US DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) “Mega Rule” affects pipeline companies, Sensor Networks is partnering with clients to assess and monitor corrosion in decades-old pipelines with ultrasound...
Making Miniaturized Electronics
Image: : Elizabeth Flores-Gomez Murray/Penn State Penn State research could make way for new electronics the size of an atom A team of Penn State and University of Tokyo researchers have recently combined one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures in such a way...
Wearable Sensors Powered by Radio Waves
Image: Larry Cheng For the past few months, HappyValley Industry has watched as Penn State’s Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in the Penn State Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, has published new discovery after new...
Innovation Spotlight
The tech industry is growing in Happy Valley and the surrounding region. We spoke with three tech leaders about their secrets to success.