UPMC hiring thousands; Pittsburgh jobs picture shows steady gains
UPMC anticipates mega hiring next year, nearly 1,900 new jobs, positions that range from medical professionals to administrators, administration and IT professionals.
Secrets of Philly Startup Weekend 2.0 revealed
Startup Weekend 2.0 is coming to Philly and it's going to be bigger, faster and better with much more caffeine.
Scranton medical school researcher works to find new treatment for hospital-acquired infection
A researcher at The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton helped discover a way to prevent a bacteria from a hospital-acquired infection from entering the human body and render it inactive it does infect a patient.
Updated cancer treatment facility coming to Pocono Medical Center
A new, high-tech cancer treatment facility is on track to open in northeast PA by next summer. The updated center under construction at the Pocono Medical Center's campus in East Stroudsburg will have 59,000 square feet of space when it's complete.
Scientists from St. Marys company and Penn State study way to make advanced battlefield armor
Pennsylvania scientists are studying a technique that's designed to put better armor on vehicles on the battlefield but could have other wide-ranging applications.
Bucknell student's remote-controlled plane captures imagery to aid creek restoration
Remote-controlled cars and airplanes were a hobby of Nick Urban's when he was a boy. This summer he built a plane that's being used to map the landscape around a creek that flows into the Susquehanna River.
Allentown cloud-computing veterans land on list of up-and-coming IT companies
At the turn of the millennium the founders of an Allentown information technology firm embraced an emerging concept called cloud computing. independenceIT was recently included on a trade publication's list of up-and-coming IT companies.
Pennsylvania has 18 of the country's fastest-growing 500 companies
Inc. Magazine recently published its list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the United States. Pennsylvania is home to 18 of the top 500 entries on the list.
YouthQuake: Five Seismic Ideas for Pittsburgh
More than 300 20- and 30-somethings developed 500 ideas at this early-summer event, ranging from concrete and doable to big and transformative. Here are five big ones and a few more to ponder.
Your Guide for the 15th Annual Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival
Everything you need to know about this year's event, which runs Sept. 2-17 throughout Philadelphia, including hotspots, extras and must-see performances.