Featured Stories

Feed Me, Kate: Pittsburgh Chef's Italian Restaurant Wows

Elaine Labalme Thursday, April 04, 2013

She opened her Highland Park restaurant on the night of Snowmaggedon, launched a successful Kickstarter to expand and is now established as one of the best and brightest chefs in town.

Entrepreneurship

Pittsburgh

PA WILDS: Bradford Buddies Put PA Snowboards on the Map

Tataboline Enos Thursday, March 28, 2013

A trio of snowboarders have turned their passion for the sport into one of the Pennsylvania Wilds' most successful businesses.

Advanced Manufacturing and Materials, Design, Entrepreneurship

Inventing the Future: At Monell, It's a Matter of Taste

Dana Henry Thursday, March 28, 2013

By studying taste and smell, local scientists hope to unlock keys to managing obesity, detecting disease, tracking genetic traits and managing trauma.

High Technology, Inventing the Future, Life Sciences

Philadelphia

Great Northeast: PA's Small Town Downtowns Looking Up

Joe Petrucci Thursday, March 28, 2013

Places like East Stroudsburg and Hawley are building momentum, while hidden gems are found all over this region's rural landscape.

Design, Entrepreneurship, High Technology, Higher Education, Sustainability

Scranton, Wilkes-Barre

Training Day: Land Banking in Pennsylvania Starts with These People

Rebecca VanderMeulen Thursday, March 28, 2013

A day-long, statewide training session in State College hopes to position Pennsylvania communities for land banking success.

Construction, Design, Sustainability

Taking Design Out of the Studio and onto the Streets

Dana Henry Thursday, March 21, 2013

Alex Gilliam's youth-focused Tiny WPA is a Works Progress Administration for small-scale urban innovation that's helping reimagine Philadelphia's underused spaces.

Design, Sustainability

Philadelphia

Share It: The Official Guide to Coworking in Pennsylvania

Bonnie MacAllister Thursday, March 21, 2013

Nearly 20 spaces are thriving, advising and specializing, and more communities are building as we speak.

Entrepreneurship

Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, Erie, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Allentown, Reading, Lancaster-York

KE-TV: Meet the Ambler 17 Year-Old Who Could Help Revolutionize Drug Design

Keystone Edge staff Thursday, March 21, 2013

Jordan Kellenbach's work centers on a bioinformatics study that could break new ground in predicting protein binding for drug therapy.

High Technology, Higher Education, Life Sciences

Philadelphia

Q&A: Kasey Wherley, TEDx Grandview Ave

Tracy Certo Thursday, March 21, 2013

Pittsburgh now offers several local TEDx events, from TEDxCMU to TEDxPittsburgh. After a successful debut downtown, we caught up with the person who got TEDxGrandviewAve together and got the inside scoop.

Pittsburgh

Inventing the Future: Working towards the next cancer breakthrough

Dana Henry Thursday, March 14, 2013

Local scientists from Penn Medicine and Adaptimmune are at the forefront of research into T-Cell immunotherapy, a treatment that could potentially cure some types of cancer.

Higher Education, Inventing the Future, Life Sciences

Philadelphia