Higher Ed News: Award-winning team at Penn works to make fracking safer
The winners of the 2015 Y-Prize competition have harnessed Penn nanotechnology for use in cutting-edge tests of groundwater affected by fracking.
With a big NSF grant and new accelerator, UPenn takes technology from lab to market
The University of Pennsylvania�s new Penn Center for Innovation has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to foster entrepreneurship and commercialization.
Uber and Carnegie Mellon head down the road towards driver-less cars with new research lab
Uber, the popular tech-based car-ride service, is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University on the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh.
Promising healthcare research gets funding from University City Science Center
Researchers in Greater Philadelphia developing healthcare technologies receive funding from the University City Science Center�s QED Proof-of-Concept Program.
Penn State researchers determine that printed books are better for sleep than e-readers
Researchers at Penn State have determined that sleep is more disrupted after reading from a light-emitting e-reader than after reading from a printed book.
Game On: Three PA schools collaborating on interactive media consortium
Harrisburg University of Science & Technology, Carnegie Mellon and Drexel University are establishing the PA Interactive Media Consortium to grow the digital entertainment and video gaming sector.