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Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars

  Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, … Read More ›

Posted on October 2, 2025
A young man wears a pair of glasses with a device attached to one arm of the glasses.
Research + Innovation

AI at the Eyelid: Glasses That Track Health Through Your Blinks

Penn researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered device that turns ordinary glasses into a smart, energy-efficient health monitor by watching you blink. The device, called … Read More ›

Posted on October 1, 2025September 29, 2025
Picture of two female students in a lab. PURM Research - CoolSeal and Urban Heating - Angelica Dadda + Nafisa Bangura at the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter.
Research + Innovation

Students Test One Way to Combat Extreme Heat in Philadelphia

In fall 2024, a team of undergraduates in the Composto Soft Matter Laboratory (Composto Lab) launched a cross-disciplinary project testing the efficacy of a pavement coating … Read More ›

Posted on September 30, 2025
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Events

Penn Nursing and Engineering Students Tackle Health Care Challenges at Inaugural Datathon

A $10,000 prize-winning idea topped the competition at the first Smarter Care Datathon, organized by Penn Nursing and Penn Engineering. Team 6 CARE: A Critical-care Acuity & Resource … Read More ›

Posted on September 29, 2025September 29, 2025
Events, In the News

74 Brilliant Minds, One Symposium: NAE Frontiers of Engineering Celebrates 30 Years at Penn

The 30th Anniversary Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (FOE), hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, took place from September 14 through 17, 2025 at … Read More ›

Posted on September 26, 2025September 29, 2025
In the News

Pranam Chatterjee Designs Novel AI Frameworks for Biotechnology

When he enrolled at Dartmouth, Pranam Chatterjee, Assistant Professor and Africk-Lesley Distinguished Scholar of Innovation in Engineering with a joint appointment in Bioengineering (BE) and … Read More ›

Posted on September 18, 2025September 17, 2025
In the News, Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Explore How Tumor Mechanics and Tiny Messengers Could Shape the Future of Cancer Research

When Ph.D. student Kshitiz Parihar began combing through dozens of research papers on two seemingly different topics — tumor mechanics and extracellular vesicles, tiny packages … Read More ›

Posted on September 17, 2025
An exterior picture of Amy Gutmann Hall, a glass and timber 6 floor structure at the corner of 34th Street at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the News

Penn Buildings Achieve LEED Certifications, Showcasing Commitment to Sustainability

The University of Pennsylvania’s newest LEED-certified building projects include the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST) which earned a LEED Platinum, Amy Gutmann Hall which was awarded … Read More ›

Posted on September 15, 2025
A new class of 2D materials known as MXenes holds the key to next-generation applications, such as consumer electronics and medical devices. Now, collaborative research led by Zahra Fakhraai of the School of Arts & Sciences, Aleksandra Vojvodic of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and their collaborators offers fundamental insights into the chemical and geometric mechanisms underlying the synthesis of these materials, a finding that could lead to cleaner, quicker energy conversion and storage for these devices.
Research + Innovation

Understanding Order to Disorder at the Atomic Scale Opens Possibilities for Next-Generation Electronic Devices

Two decades ago, scientists peeled away layers from graphite, the soft carbon in pencil tips, to isolate a single atomic sheet known as graphene—the first … Read More ›

Posted on September 8, 2025September 8, 2025
In the News, Research + Innovation

What Stiffening Lung Tissue Reveals About the Earliest Stages of Fibrosis

Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it’s too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue … Read More ›

Posted on September 5, 2025September 4, 2025

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