Linden Dale Farms, Lancaster County, PA, USA, produces various fresh and aged cheeses, goat milk yogurt, bottled milk, as well as pasture-raised goat meat.
Project: Optimizing the Stretchability of Goat Milk Mozzarella Cheese

Hsieh Lab, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, seeks to understand how animals respond to and manipulate naturally unstable and unpredictable environments to facilitate their daily locomotion.
Project: Understanding the Stability of Running Lizards

Amber Grain Bakery, Collingswood, NJ, USA, a "back to basics" neighborhood bakery with artisan breads baked like in the Old World.
Project: Optimizing sour dough feeding schedules

Merck & Co. (MSD outside of the US and Canada), Kenilworth, NJ, USA, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
Project: Best injection site for intradermal medicine

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), Philadelphia, PA, USA, is the metropolitan planning organization repsonsible for transportation and regional planning in the greater Philadelphia area. In order to decide on the allocation of funds, DVRPC runs large simulations of the transportation in Philadelphia and adjacent counties in PA and NJ, enabling predidictions of the travel demand over the next decades. A crucial component of these simulations are models for the distribution of trips that residents and employees in the metro area take.
Project: Destination choice models in travel demand forecasting

U.S. National Park Service. Marble and granite monuments (from the Washington Monument down to historic grave stones) are affected by lichens and biofilms. Fundamental question for the preservation of the national heritage are: Are lichens harmful to the stone? Or could they possibly help preserve the stone by protecting it from acid rain? Could the cleaning be more harmful to the stone than the presence of biofilms and lichens?
Project: Effect of lichens and biofilms on marble and granite monuments

Elixr Coffee, Philadelphia, PA, USA, is the coffee place with the best cappuccino in the western hemisphere. For them, the creation of a perfect cappuccino foam is an aspect of pride; and also of great interest to be understood from a scientific perspective.
Project: Stability of cappuccino foams

Hsieh Lab, Temple University. Prof. Tonia Hsieh and her postdoctoral researchers and students study the locomotion of lizards, cockroaches, and other animals. The creation and study of mathematical models is of crucial importance for the understanding of the underlying dynamics of locomotion.
Project: Modeling inverted cockroach locomotion

Gamry Instruments, Warminster, PA, USA, is a company that designs and manufactures electrochemical instruments, in particular impedance-scanning quartz crystal microbalance systems.
Project: Efficient impedance measurements at low frequency

Meteomedia AG is one of the leading weather services in Europe, with subsidiaries in Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the USA. One of their products is weather forecast for television. Meteomedia produces weather reports for the German state TV broadcaster ARD and numerous other TV and radio stations in Germany.
Project: The automatic detection of weather fronts from forecast data