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.
5 Real Estate Development Projects to Watch in Philadelphia
BioBuzz named the Pennovation Life Sciences project one of 5 Real Estate Development Projects to Watch in Philadelphia. The project, led by Longfellow Real Estate Partners, is scheduled to begin next year and open in 2025. Read more at BioBuzz..
Engaging teens in the art of design
Design to Thrive is a program through Penn Praxis where high schoolers are paired with Penn graduate students to learn the design process in an array of creative fields. Learn more in the article from Penn Today.
A Decade of Advancing Working Dogs for the Greater Good
On September 11, 2022, nearly 300 people with ties to the Penn Vet Working Dog Center gathered to mark its 10th anniversary with festivities that included meet-and-greets with canine graduates, overviews of research projects, and demos of the detection dogs at work. Learn more in the article from Penn Today.
Penn Dental Research Greenhouse Developing Chewing Gum To Trap COVID-19 and Reduce Its Spread
Dr. Henry Daniell, Vice-Chair and W.D. Miller Professor of the Department of Basic & Translational Sciences, and researchers at Penn's School of Dental Medicine, have been developing and testing a chewing gum that works to trap COVID-19 and reduce its spread in the Penn Dental Research Greenhouse at Pennovation Works.