Each year, Penn Engineering, The Mack Institute at the Wharton School, The Penn Venture Lab, and the Penn Center for Innovation host the Y-Prize competition. Starting with … Read More ›
Author: Ebonee Johnson
When Devin Carroll, a Ph.D. candidate in Penn Engineering’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab, walks the streets of Philadelphia, he keeps an … Read More ›
Karen Winey, Harold Pender Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has received the 2023 American Chemical Society … Read More ›
Racial and economic factors can often create barriers to reliable transportation, making it difficult access to basic necessities such as health care and employment. Although … Read More ›
For decades, robots have helped researchers navigate rough terrain and explore territory nearly impossible to access otherwise. The use of robots has allowed scientists to … Read More ›
Researchers from Penn’s Center for Engineering Mechanobiology (CEMB) have discovered that cells change the physical structure of their genome when they’re affected by disease. In … Read More ›
Many of the concerns surrounding the impact of echo chambers — communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their … Read More ›
Saif Khawaja has earned one of the inaugural Penn President’s Sustainability Prize for Shinkei Systems, a robotics-based system to automate a Japanese style of fish harvest … Read More ›
Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named a 2022 American … Read More ›
Last month, Penn’s Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club (WUAC) traveled to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to present its well-researched vision: a modular set … Read More ›