Tiny is SO in these days. Nanotechnology, technology that is small enough to fit inside a computer chip, is a field that is attracting lots of young technologists. Wharton MBA graduates Brian Smith and Irene Susantio -- otherwise known as Team Solixia -- are putting tiny into action in health care. Their “Hot Dot” cancer treatment is the size of a small protein fragment yet 20 times more powerful in diagnosing and treating cancer than current methods. Brian and Irene have big plans for their business, which received a grant from the National Cancer Institute in August, 2010, as they spread the word about the small wonders of nanotechnology.

Wharton Business Plan Winners Brian Smith and Irene Susantio: The Small Wonders of Nanotechnology

Janet Monge says she was a born anthropologist. Even so, it took her many years of soul searching before she decided to make the stuff of skeletons her actual career. Now, as acting curator in charge of physical anthropology at the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, she travels as close as Malvern, Pa., to research skeletal remains at a mass railroad worker gravesite and as far away as Croatia to study the biggest collection of Neanderthal fossils. KWHS talked to Monge about her fascinating work and her thoughts about how museums are challenged to move into the future.

Janet Monge Talks Skeletal Remains, the Museum Business and Her Career as a Physical Anthropologist