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Honors + Awards

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

Karen I. Winey, TowerBrook Foundation Faculty Fellow, Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, … Read More ›

Posted on July 14, 2020September 17, 2020
Research + Innovation

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 Engineering and Applied Mechanics, published … Read More ›

Posted on July 13, 2020September 17, 2020
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In the News

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 & Sciences and the Wharton … Read More ›

Posted on July 8, 2020September 17, 2020
Megan Ryerson
In the News

Megan Ryerson on Designing Transportation Around a Pandemic

Megan S. Ryerson, the UPS Chair of Transportation in the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, … Read More ›

Posted on July 7, 2020March 16, 2022
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Guest Posts

Penn Engineering’s ‘Summer Reading’ Project

The summer of 2020 will go down in history as a time when a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and an economic crisis … Read More ›

Posted on July 6, 2020September 1, 2020
Rakesh Vohra
Honors + Awards

Rakesh Vohra Wins SIGecom Test of Time Award

Rakesh Vohra, George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, has won the 2020 SIGecom Test of Time Award for his paper, “Calibrated Learning and Correlated … Read More ›

Posted on July 1, 2020September 1, 2020
Shu Yang
Honors + Awards

Shu Yang Wins Manufacturing PA Innovation Grant for Developing Snail-inspired Adhesive

Shu Yang, Professor in the departments of Materials Science Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a Manufacturing PA Innovation grant to develop a new … Read More ›

Posted on June 25, 2020September 1, 2020
Beth Winkelstein
Academics

Beth Winkelstein Appointed Deputy Provost at Penn

Provost Wendell Pritchett has announced the appointment of Beth Winkelstein as Deputy Provost. “Beth Winkelstein has become one of our most essential leaders of teaching, learning, and student life,” … Read More ›

Posted on June 24, 2020September 1, 2020
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In the News

IEEE Specturm: ‘Vortex Lasers May Be a Boon for Data’

Last month, Penn Engineers published a matched pair of Science studies with major implications for how quickly data can be transmitted over optical networks. One study demonstrated a chip-sized “vortex” … Read More ›

Posted on June 24, 2020September 1, 2020
Vanessa Chan
Students

Vanessa Chan on ‘Making the Most of a Coronavirus Summer’

Vanessa Chan, Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Undergraduate Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, has advice for students whose summer … Read More ›

Posted on June 23, 2020September 2, 2020

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