Crowdsourcing Gun Violence Research

Gun violence is often described as an epidemic, but as visible and shocking as shooting incidents…

Cockroaches Give Undergrads a Leg Up in Designing Biomechatronic Prostheses

Engineering, Wharton and Law School Deans on What to Expect During the Trump Years

Threading the Needle with GRASP’s Latest Quadrotor Trick

The steady stream of viral quadrotor videos shot by GRASP researchers tend to have one thing in common: their robotic stars are bathed in the infrared light of motion-tracking cameras. Covering the entire flying space from multiple…

Smart Windows and Ultrathin Plates: 2016 Y-Prize Kicks Off

Penn Engineering’s Aleksandra Vojvodic is Catalyzing Ideas for Clean Energy

For nearly half a century, chemists, physicists and engineers have dreamed of a “hydrogen economy.” In that hypothetical world, the universe’s most plentiful atom would be the cornerstone of energy…

Penn Engineers Contribute to New Understanding of Friction on Graphene

Penn Engineers and Chemists Make Nanoscale ‘Muscles’ Powered by DNA