With its flagship light device, Lumify Care improves patient experience from the frontline Penn Nursing senior Anthony Scarpone-Lambert earned a 2021 President’s Innovation Prize for his company and its first trio of products: uNight Light, the Sleep-First Education Initiative, and the uNightShift Community. The School of Nursing’s Anthony Scarpone-Lambert of Chalfont, Pennsylvania, earned a 2021 President’s Innovation Prize for Lumify Care. The company’s first product, uNight Light, is a battery-powered, hands-free light device that magnetically clips onto scrubs, has three modes, and is easily cleanable with hospital-grade disinfectant wipes. It offers nurses an alternative to turning on overhead lights overnight, helping patients rest and making a hospital stay more conducive to healing.
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Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, 21, a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing student, co-invented a wearable light he s wearing that nurses can use to better care for patients at night. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)
Penn student invents wearable light for nurses
PHILADELPHIA In America, the college dorm room has a special place in business lore.
Facebook, Google, Reddit, Dell, and Snapchat were all invented by students in cramped quarters, their big dreams sharing precious space with bags of Doritos and overflowing laundry baskets.
Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, a 21-year-old University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing senior living in the campus’s Lauder College House, hopes to follow iconic tradition and become a dormitory-launched capitalist.