Teaching Tomorrow's Innovators

By HappyValley Industry Staff If Penn State was a business entity rather than a non-profit one, its projected revenue for this fiscal year puts it somewhere between Campbell’s (as in the soup, $8.6 billion) and Puma ($9.1 billion). A tuition increase and 20 years of shrinking state appropriations have put

By Holly Riddle Left to Right: Liz Wilson, Sherry Davidson, Jennifer Wingard, Michelle Cook and Pam Asencio at Ben Franklin’s State College office. Anyone who’s even remotely connected to or familiar with the Happy Valley startup scene knows Ben Franklin Technology Partners — and for good reason. The organization impacts

By Chara Fitch Penn State student Samuel Highfield holds a red-hot sample of lunar ilmenite after only 30 seconds in an ordinary microwave. Photo: Kate Myers / Penn State. “We’re an exploration species,” said Sven Bilén, Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering at Penn State. From the

By Gracie Mullan Image: Adrienne Berard / Penn State One of the largest challenges facing the glass industry today is the immense amount of carbon emissions produced by the production of glass. At least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere each year from glass manufacturing.