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Gardening in Costa Rica Yields Inspiration During Quarantine

Gardening in Costa Rica Yields Inspiration During Quarantine

When the pandemic began, María Suarez combined her rural roots and engineering know-how in an ambitious gardening project.
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Sep 10, 2020

Ani Hsieh Named Deputy Director of GRASP Lab

Hsieh, who began her tenure in the GRASP Lab as a graduate student, is an expert in the control and planning of multi-agent robotic system.
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Aug 31, 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…
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Aug 28, 2020
More on Marc Miskin’s Microscopic Robots

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…
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Aug 27, 2020
Penn Engineering and Cornell Researchers Develop Laser-controlled, Cell-sized Robots

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

Roughly the size of a paramecium, they provide a template for building even more complex versions that may someday travel through the body.
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Aug 26, 2020
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

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Award is part of its Neurodegeneration Challenge Network
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Aug 24, 2020
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…

The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s PRECISE Center and the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania have formed a…
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Aug 19, 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…
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Aug 18, 2020
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…

Last week, the National Science Foundation announced the Penn-headquartered IoT4Ag (Internet of Things for Agriculture) Center. As one of…
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Aug 17, 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…
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Aug 12, 2020
New Funding Supports Milestone Initiative to Advance Solar Energy Research

New Funding Supports Milestone Initiative to Advance Solar Energy Research

Penn’s Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology is a partner in a $40 million award from the Department of Energy that will…
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Aug 10, 2020
High School Students Lead ‘Maskathon’ During Remote M&T Summer Program

High School Students Lead ‘Maskathon’ During Remote M&T Summer Program

Integrating electronics with everyday materials like bubble wrap and printer paper, their masks were creative and unique takes on PPE.
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Aug 5, 2020
Penn, Purdue, UC Merced and UF Partner on New $26M NSF Engineering Research Center for the…

Penn, Purdue, UC Merced and UF Partner on New $26M NSF Engineering Research Center for the…

IoT4Ag will create advanced technologies for improving crop production and addressing interconnected food, energy and water security…
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Aug 4, 2020
Penn Engineers Manipulate Color on the Nanoscale, Making it Disappear

Penn Engineers Manipulate Color on the Nanoscale, Making it Disappear

Most of the time, a material’s color stems from its chemical properties. Different atoms and molecules absorb different wavelengths of…
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Aug 3, 2020
Why This Bioengineering Ph.D. Student Pursued Impact Investing

Why This Bioengineering Ph.D. Student Pursued Impact Investing

In a Q&A, Bioengineering doctoral candidate Ana P. Peredo explains how the idea of “regeneration” motivated her to join WIVA, Wharton…
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Jul 29, 2020
More on Envisioning a Post-Pandemic Transportation System from Megan Ryerson

More on Envisioning a Post-Pandemic Transportation System from Megan Ryerson

Earlier this month, Megan S. Ryerson, the UPS Chair of Transportation in the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and…
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Jul 28, 2020
Pennovation Accelerator Moves Online

Pennovation Accelerator Moves Online

In its third summer, the six-week program for startup companies went entirely virtual, but that didn’t stop the cohort of entrepreneurs…
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Jul 23, 2020
Plato was right. Earth is Made, on Average, of Cubes

Plato was right. Earth is Made, on Average, of Cubes

Professor Douglas Jerolmack and colleagues used a combination of math, geology, and physics to understand the shapes rocks take when they…
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Jul 21, 2020
Navigating ‘Information Pollution’ With the Help of Artificial Intelligence

Navigating ‘Information Pollution’ With the Help of Artificial Intelligence

Using insights from the field of natural language processing, computer scientist Dan Roth and his research group are developing an online…
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Jul 20, 2020
César de la Fuente Wins Inaugural NEMO Prize, Will Develop Rapid COVID Virus Breath Tests

César de la Fuente Wins Inaugural NEMO Prize, Will Develop Rapid COVID Virus Breath Tests

The paper-based tests could be integrated directly into facemasks and provide instant results at testing sites.
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Jul 16, 2020
Karen Winey Earns Pair of Scholarly Awards For Her Work on Polymer Science

Karen Winey Earns Pair of Scholarly Awards For Her Work on Polymer Science

Winey’s research involves designing polymer nanocomposites containing carbon nanotubes and plastics for use in smaller, safer batteries.
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Jul 14, 2020

Watch: National Science Foundation Video on Nanocardboard Flyers

Earlier this year, a research team led by Igor Bargatin, Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical…
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Jul 13, 2020
Rooting Out Systemic Bias in Neuroscience Publishing

Rooting Out Systemic Bias in Neuroscience Publishing

An interdisciplinary research team has found statistical evidence of women being under-cited in academic literature. They are now studying…
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Jul 9, 2020
Lyle Ungar: ‘Philadelphia Needs More Contact Tracers’

Lyle Ungar: ‘Philadelphia Needs More Contact Tracers’

In May, Lyle Ungar, Professor of Computer and Information Science and Angela Duckworth, Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor in Penn Arts &…
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Jul 8, 2020
Megan Ryerson on Designing Transportation Around a Pandemic

Megan Ryerson on Designing Transportation Around a Pandemic

In an essay for Politico Magazine, Ryerson suggests airlines should replace their short flights with bus trips.
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Jul 7, 2020
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