Penn State’s Materials Day 2023 October 26-27

Phospholutions research scientist Pauline Welikhe has been named 2021 International Fertilizer Association’s Emerging Scholar in recognition of her distinguished research in sustainable phosphorus. She says her work focused on managing this finite resource is rooted in economic and social advancement for developing countries. “My drive is simple,” she says. “I want to contribute to food […]

Dr. John Mauro is more than just an innovator in his field. The associate head for graduate education, materials science and engineering is creating a legacy. He “enabled a generation of inventors for a whole class of materials,” according to one nomination that ultimately earned Mauro the 2021 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal Award for […]

Kevin Murray, CEO, Mission Critical Partners What is your business background, and how did it lead you to Mission Critical Partners? I’ve spent the majority of my professional life working in the public safety industry because I’ve always had a passion for improving emergency response outcomes. In 2009, the opportunity for me to start my […]

Started right here in Happy Valley, Kijenzi is now developing solutions to deliver medical equipment to remote areas in four different countries around the world utilizing 3D printing. The founding team at Kijenzi came together through Penn State's humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship program. “We launched out of the university and kept Happy Valley as […]

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 […]

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 […]