Success Stories
Penn State Law Professor of Practice and Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic (EAC) Director, Tom Sharbaugh today announced, “The Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic is expanding its scope and service offerings, effective immediately, in response to the COVID-19 situation. The Clinic will provide these expanded services for the foreseeable future.” The EAC serves startups…
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The agenda for Penn State Startup Week 2020, March 30 – April 3, across the university’s Commonwealth campuses, is set to connect students with some of the leading minds in entrepreneurship and innovation. Startup Week features entrepreneurial workshops; networking; student pitch competitions; and presentations from startup founders and corporate innovators,…
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Startup Week 2020 is just around the corner at University Park and most Penn State Commonwealth campuses – March 30-April 3 – featuring entrepreneurial workshops, networking; student pitch competitions, and presentations from startup founders and corporate innovators, including many Penn State alumni. One of the highlights of the week is a…
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After five years of traveling the country witnessing the day-to-day challenges marketers face, Penn State alum Anthony “AJ” Bruno knew he could present a better solution. In 2012, he created an analytics platform aimed at public relations firms: TrendKite. Over the next six years, the success of Bruno’s digital PR…
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Before Tamela Serensits got her entrepreneurial feet, she got her sea legs as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy – traveling the world protecting freedom and leading critical decision-making when lives were on the line. That experience helped form her character, and commitment to her own startup company: Argolytics, a web-based…
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As Penn State Materials Research Institute prepared for its 2019 Materials Day event – held October 29th and 30th – 3M was busy reinforcing its relationship with Penn State to advance research activities with a new $900,000 commitment over the next three years. The new agreement harnessed the efforts of…
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Birgitt Boschitsch is cleaning up the world. One toilet at a time. Boschitsch co-founded spotLESS Materials with Dr. Tak-Sing Wong based on a discovery made by her lab mate and fellow doctoral student, Jing Wang. Wang developed a liquid-entrenched smooth surface (LESS) coating that can be applied to glass, some metals, and ceramic to enable them…
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Invent Penn State is expanding its footprint in Reading, PA to enable budding entrepreneurs the opportunity to grow their ideas into businesses that positively impact the community. Penn State Berks recently opened its second LaunchBox location at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts, 201 Washington Street. It will augment the…
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Who knew back in 2015 when Occupational Therapy Assistant students Ali Izzo and Holly Masters met as Penn State freshman that their budding friendship would blossom into a growing entrepreneurial enterprise that today is changing the lives of older Americans? Masters and Izzo's desire to help aging Americans incubated over…
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