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  • From wearable light to tech startup

    Lumify Care, supported by the 2021 President’s Innovation Prize and co-founded by May graduate Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and NICU nurse Jennifferre Mancillas, launched an app in January and expects version 2.0 of its uNight Light later in 2022.
    anthony and jennifferre from lumify
    When Anthony Scarpone-Lambert (left) and Jennifferre Mancillas met at the Johnson & Johnson SONSIEL Nurse Hackathon in November 2019, he was a student at Penn Nursing, she a J&J Nursing Innovation Fellow and NICU nurse at Valley Children’s Healthcare in California. Initial conversations at the Hackathon planted the seeds for what would become Lumify, the company they co-run and for which Scarpone-Lambert earned the 2021 President’s Innovation Prize. 

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  • A world shaped by water and access
    Three people test water below a sand dam.

    Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.

    (Image: Courtesy of Griffin Pitt)

    A world shaped by water and access

    Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.

    Oct 8, 2025