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·Sep 10, 2020

Gardening in Costa Rica Yields Inspiration During Quarantine

By Izzy Lopez When the coronavirus pandemic began in March, María Suarez, junior in bioengineering, left Penn’s campus and returned home to Costa Rica. What should have been the final weeks of club activities, social events and end-of-year celebrations shifted to months spent at home, far away from Philadelphia. But…

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Gardening in Costa Rica Yields Inspiration During Quarantine
Gardening in Costa Rica Yields Inspiration During Quarantine
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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 31, 2020

Ani Hsieh Named Deputy Director of GRASP Lab

M. Ani Hsieh, research associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been named Deputy Director of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory. …

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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 28, 2020

Kristian Lum Discusses Computer Science and Social Justice on ACM ByteCast

Kristian Lum, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, was recently featured on ACM ByteCast, a podcast series from the Association for Computing Machinery that covers a range of topics at the intersection of computing research and practice. Kristian Lum - Episode 4 In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan welcomes Kristian Lum to the podcast. Lum is part of the research faculty…www.podbean.com

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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 27, 2020

More on Marc Miskin’s Microscopic Robots

Yesterday, Marc Miskin, assistant professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, published a paper in the journal Nature detailing a new kind of robot he developed with his colleagues and former advisors at Cornell. Along with the paper, Nature published academic commentary explaining the significance of the…

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More on Marc Miskin’s Microscopic Robots
More on Marc Miskin’s Microscopic Robots
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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 26, 2020

Penn Engineering and Cornell Researchers Develop Laser-controlled, Cell-sized Robots

Advances in robotics are often looked at through the lens of our own biology. Is a new humanoid robot’s gripper gentle enough to safely give a handshake? Can it keep its balance as well as a toddler? Researchers from Penn Engineering and Cornell are looking through this lens at an…

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Penn Engineering and Cornell Researchers Develop Laser-controlled, Cell-sized Robots
Penn Engineering and Cornell Researchers Develop Laser-controlled, Cell-sized Robots

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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 24, 2020

Jennifer Phillips-Cremins Wins CZI Grant to Study 3D Genome’s Role in Neurodegenerative Disease

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Award is part of its Neurodegeneration Challenge Network — More than 30 inherited disorders are caused by the unstable expansion of repetitive DNA sequences, including Huntington’s disease, ALS, Fragile X syndrome, and Friedreich’s ataxia. Jennifer E. …

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Jennifer Phillips-Cremins Wins CZI Grant to Study 3D Genome’s Role in Neurodegenerative Disease
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins Wins CZI Grant to Study 3D Genome’s Role in Neurodegenerative Disease
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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 19, 2020

Penn Engineering and Nursing Partner with Medical Device Provider Hillrom on Internet-of-Things Technology

The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s PRECISE Center and the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania have formed a partnership with medical device leader Hillrom to develop technical solutions for health care challenges in multiple domains, including critical care, diabetes, mental health, and cardiology. This collaboration will…

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Penn Engineering and Nursing Partner with Medical Device Provider Hillrom on Internet-of-Things…
Penn Engineering and Nursing Partner with Medical Device Provider Hillrom on Internet-of-Things…
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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 18, 2020

Danielle Bassett on ‘A Radical New Model of the Brain’

In a ‘Wired’ feature, Bassett helps explain the growing field of network neuroscience and how the form and function of the brain are connected. — Early attempts to understand how the brain works included the pseudoscience of phrenology, which theorized that various mental functions could be determined through the shape of the skull. …

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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 17, 2020

Cherie Kagan, Director of New NSF Center on Agricultural Internet of Things, Takes a ‘Scientist Selfie’

Last week, the National Science Foundation announced the Penn-headquartered IoT4Ag (Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture) Center. …

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Cherie Kagan, Director of New NSF Center on Agriculture Internet of Things, Takes a ‘Scientist…
Cherie Kagan, Director of New NSF Center on Agriculture Internet of Things, Takes a ‘Scientist…
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Published in Penn Engineering

·Aug 12, 2020

‘For Neurodegeneration, a Different Way to Slice the Pie’

Danielle Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been called the “doyenne of network neuroscience.” …

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