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A rudimentary robot made out of blocks of ice with electronics attached.
In the News

GRASP Lab’s Coolest Robot Yet

Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has seen any number of innovative robots walk, fly, hop, roll and otherwise propel themselves about the … Read More ›

Posted on January 22, 2021January 22, 2021
Vanessa Z. Chan and Jennifer Wilcox
Academics

Two Penn Engineering Faculty Members Appointed to Department of Energy

The Biden-Harris Administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) has appointed two members of the Penn Engineering faculty to senior leadership positions.  Vanessa Z. Chan, Jonathan and … Read More ›

Posted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021
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Research + Innovation

Jennifer Wilcox Contributes to Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer

Jennifer Wilcox, the University of Pennsylvania’s new Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy, is one of the world’s leading experts on carbon … Read More ›

Posted on January 19, 2021
William H. Peranteau, Michael J. Mitchell, Margaret Billingsley, Meghana Kashyap, and Rachel Riley (Clockwise from top left)
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineering and CHOP Researchers Identify Nanoparticles that Could Be Used in Therapeutic mRNA Delivery before Birth

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania have identified ionizable lipid nanoparticles that … Read More ›

Posted on January 13, 2021January 13, 2021
A honey bee lands on flower.
Research + Innovation

Penn, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins to Develop New Turing Tests, Investigate How AI Can Become More Like Biological Intelligence

While artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of nearly every industry and increasingly present in everyday life, even the most impressive AI is no … Read More ›

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021
Yixi (Cecilia) Wang
Students

Senior Yixi (Cecilia) Wang Receives Schwarzman Scholarship

Senior Yixi (Cecilia) Wang is one of four Penn students to receive a Schwarzman Scholarship, which funds a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua … Read More ›

Posted on December 21, 2020
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Honors + Awards

Firooz Aflatouni Wins 2020 Bell Labs Prize

The Bell Labs Prize awarded by Nokia Bell Labs is a yearly contest in which researchers from around the world submit proposals for “disruptive innovations … Read More ›

Posted on December 14, 2020December 15, 2020
J.D. Albert
Honors + Awards

J.D. Albert Named 2020 National Academy of Inventors Fellow

J.D. Albert, lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and the Integrated Design Program, which is jointly offered by Penn Engineering, the … Read More ›

Posted on December 8, 2020December 11, 2020
Gloved fingers holding a silicon wafer, with a zoomed in detail showing microscopic robots
Grants

Marc Miskin Wins Two Young Investigator Awards for Microrobotic Research

Marc Miskin, assistant professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded two young investigator projects in support of his research on … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2020
Grid of nine headshots.
Grants

Engineering and Medicine Researchers Collaborate on Studies of Genome Folding in Health and Disease

Popular accounts of the human genome often depict it as a long string of DNA base pairs, but in reality the genome is separated into … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2020

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