In the business world, workers expect to be recognized for hard work. One manufacturer based in the Philadelphia suburb of Paoli has extended that idea to thousands of students by rewarding them for developing a love of reading.
Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP) is developing two new entertainment technologies that are generating a buzz this week at SIGGRAPH 2011, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Vancouver.
Penn State University is creating more opportunities for scientists to interact in its newest building. About 300 researchers from the university's Materials Research Institute and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences will move in this fall.
Each year more than 100,000 people flock to the Crawford County Fair for rides, concerts, livestock showcases and demolition derbies. And this year the fair, scheduled for later this month, will be a giant wi-fi hotspot.
A team of University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineering students created a revolutionary cycle design that propels far more than the rider.
Pitch, design, collaborate and work. Designers, developers and would-be entrepreneurs came together for this hackathon at Independents Hall.
Experience is nothing more than a four-syllable world for these innovative self-starters who are ready to make their mark online. Listen as they sound off about their online ventures.
From tweeting about rogue dinners--10 chefs, 20 courses, anyone?--to beets on rock salt, Southwest PA chefs are active in this form of social media with good reason.
"We'll be fighting in the streets quite a bit," says the mercurial actor at a press conference last week to commence filming here of the next Batman movie, "Dark Night Rises."
Wilkes University's latest expansion means students who live in the Poconos and want to earn certain business degrees will be able to take courses much closer to home.