This is a guest post by FemmeHacks organizer Andrea Baric.
I was frustrated my freshman year.
It was hard to find a group of women in computer science to form study groups with or to chat with about some of the daily challenges we faced in a mostly male environment — the fact that there might sometimes be more Daves than women in our computing design class.
At Penn's research hub, Wolf spoke about his budget proposal and job creation. BioBots and COSY piqued his interest.
By Roberto Torres / REPORTER
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf made a pretty low-key visit to Pennovation yesterday.
Startups like Iqinetics, Cosy and Biobots were in the spotlight during his visit.
BY FABIOLA CINEAS MARCH 30, 2017 AT 2:21 PM
Philadelphia Magazine
Funding the state’s entrepreneurs is one part of Governor Wolf’s new budget proposal for Pennsylvania, and he made a stop in Philly on Wednesday to have a look at exactly the kind of innovation he’d like to support.
Mar 29, 2017, 7:46am EDT
Michelle Caffrey
Philadelphia Business Journal
It’s a brisk Friday afternoon at the a cluster of offices and lab spaces on Gray’s Ferry Avenue known as Pennovation Works, and tucked in the basement of a nondescript building on the 23-acre campus, Teri Dankovich is focused.
Clad in a white lab jacket and lavender-colored rubber gloves, the co-founder and CTO of Folia Water is conducting quality control tests for the startup's flagship product, a paper water filter that purifies drinking water for a penny a day per person.
Oncora Medical's David Lindsay has the lowdown on the region's health IT ambassadors.
By David Lindsay / GUEST
March 17, 2017
Tracking The Evolution Of Industry At 34th And Grays Ferry
MARCH 16, 2017 BY MADELEINE HELMER
by Diane Mastrull, STAFF WRITER dmastrull@phillynews.com
The time eventually comes when the founder of a start-up takes a leap of faith – quitting school or a full-time job to devote all efforts to the entrepreneurial endeavor.
Penn undergrad Anna Brill took a year off to work on some v chill robots
The 22-year-old researcher became a robot technician for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Boss.
March 14, 2017
By Roberto Torres / REPORTER
Your average undergrad student may take a year off to live abroad, try their hand at a startup or muse over existentialism in a cross-country drive.
But Penn undergraduate researcher Anna Brill beat all those clichéd plans hands down: she spent her year off working on some pretty cool-lookin’ robots.
Three Models of Building for Innovation in Philadelphia
UrbanLand – The Magazine of the Urban Land Institute
By Jared Brey
March 9, 2017
Embracing the concept of a minimum viable product and partnering with anchor institutions are two of the ways that a group of development professionals speaking at a ULI Philadelphia event in February said they are working to create a built environment that enables collaboration and experimentation, which are some of the hallmarks of the innovation economy.