The Department of Materials Science and Engineering are always honored to have our alumni stop in our offices.
Julia Yan and Sara Beth Gleeson, two founders of Baleena, paid us a visit.
Gleeson, Yan and Shoshana Weintraub graduated from Penn in 2022 and won the Penn President’s Sustainability prize — and an accompanying $250,000 — that spring to support working on their company full-time for a year. During this first year, the team was based at the Pennovation Center where they had access to Pennovation’s resources, participated in its accelerator and won the 2022 pitch day. We’re grateful for stopping by.