Want a well-trained dog? Start with a better-trained human.
The Washington Post spoke to Dr. Otto, Director of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, about what qualities make a good, and successful, dog trainer. Read more.
Meet 9 ecopreneurs with innovative solutions to conserve, restore and grow US forests
Uplink, a global platform for action hosted by the World Economic Forum, named Treeswift one of its top nine ecoprenuers contributing to the conservation, restoration, and growth of forests in the U.S. Read more.
2022 in Review: Local universities drive growth with capital projects and real estate deals
Philadelphia Business Journal outlines the Life sciences boom in University City as part of their 2022 In Review.
Turning Carbon Emissions Into Rocks
In Penn’s Clean Energy Conversions Lab, researcher Peter Psarras and colleagues are repurposing waste from industrial mines and storing carbon pulled from the atmosphere into newly formed rock. In October of this year, the Clean Energy Conversions Lab moved into the Pennovation Lab Building, read more in the Penn Today article.
Money Moves: iECURE, Avisi Technologies and Invent Analytics just scored $75M+ in venture capital
As part of their Money Moves series, Med Tech Innovator detailed Avisi Technology's recent $4M seed round fundraising. Read more.
Artists and Penn PhDs collabed to explore the intersection of art and engineering.
Read this article from Technical.ly Philly on the "Experiments in Robotic Gestures" exhibition at the University City Arts League. The exhibition was a collaboration between artists and students at the GRASP Lab, housed in the Pennovation Center.
People and places at Penn: Research
In this article about researchers across Penn, Penn Today profiled Alice Kate Li, a PhD student and part of the ScalAR Lab at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab, housed in the Pennovation Center.
How one company is fighting food waste and high grocery costs
CBS Saturday Morning spoke with Strella Biotechnology founder Katherine Sizov about fighting food waste with science. Watch the video and learn more about the work Strella is doing to predict produce shelf life and prevent waste.
The US Has a Bomb-Sniffing Dog Shortage
In this article Wired explores the shortage of bomb-sniffing dogs in the U.S., including the Pen Vet Working Dog Center's Dr. Cindy Otto's congressional testimony on the subject from 2016.