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Johnson & Johnson lands at Penn
'Bell ringing' at JPOD launch Earlier this month, Johnson and Johnson’s Michael Sneed and Penn President Amy Gutmann joined at the Pennovation Center to celebrate the launch of JPOD @ Philadelphia, a networking hub for several startups in the health and biotechnology field. Avisi is part of the inaugural cohort of resident companies supported by the incubator.

Johnson & Johnson lands at Penn

JPOD @ Philadelphia officially launched at Pennovation Works on Nov. 1, expanding the region’s ever-evolving innovation ecosystem.

Lauren Hertzler

How Wharton students are using an app to push for a sustainable campus
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Students gather at an on-campus Penn Sustainability event. Penn Sustainability is hosting a series of ReThink Your Footprint engagement events through Oct. 19. 

How Wharton students are using an app to push for a sustainable campus

Through a Penn Green Fund grant, students in the Wharton School helped develop and pilot the Wharton Green Tracker App, meant to unite the campus’s sustainability community.
Revitalizing and expanding Penn GSE’s space for modern learning
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The entrance to 3700 Walnut St. will include a new lobby that leads to a four-story student pavilion. Rendering courtesy of Atkin Olshin Schade Architects.

Revitalizing and expanding Penn GSE’s space for modern learning

The planned building expansion for the Graduate School of Education adds more than just space: It brings a new approach to building design to accommodate new technologies and spaces for collaboration.

Penn Today Staff

The business of voting
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The business of voting

The chaos that befell the 2000 election sparked a revamping of the election technology industry. Wharton experts have drafted a report detailing the business side of modernizing voting technology.

Penn Today Staff

STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers
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As part of SMASH Wharton, rising 10th graders spend almost the entirety of their summer breaks on Penn’s campus, taking rigorous STEM and business courses.

STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers

As part of the SMASH Wharton program, 35 students live and breathe college life in the summer, staying for three years in Harnwell College House and taking classes at Huntsman Hall.

Lauren Hertzler

A ‘smart-connected cup’ to fight Zika
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A ‘smart-connected cup’ to fight Zika

By combining a a Thermos, a microfluidics chip and a smartphone, researchers have found a way to bring Zika testing to sites where clinical laboratories aren’t present but diagnostics are needed.

Penn Today Staff

Penn Makes Third Big Biotech Bet, Helping to Raise $53M for Carisma
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Penn Makes Third Big Biotech Bet, Helping to Raise $53M for Carisma

Cancer-fighting biotech company Carisma Therapeutics Inc. is the latest addition to Penn’s recently-announced investment plan. Roy Rosin, CIO at Penn Medicine, said, “Penn’s commitment is pretty exciting for this region.”