The National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship Program aims to support graduate students, educate the STEM leaders of tomorrow and strengthen the national research infrastructure. The … Read More ›
Author: Melissa Pappas
The Penn Center for Precision Engineering for Health (CPE4H) was established late last year to accelerate engineering solutions to significant problems in healthcare. The center … Read More ›
The human heart beats more than two billion times in an average lifespan. The aorta’s tissue is strong enough to withstand this stress, yet flexible … Read More ›
Carbon is continuously being pumped into the atmosphere at a rate of 50 billion tons per year. Achieving net zero by 2050 will not be … Read More ›
Learning is ubiquitous in nature, and the way systems adapt to new circumstances exhibits some striking similarities. At the microscopic scale, networks of proteins control … Read More ›
Artificial intelligence (AI) plays an important role in many systems, from predictive text to medical diagnoses. Inspired by the human brain, many AI systems are … Read More ›
The rise of technology is both exciting and daunting as it has positive and negative implications on our society. One field that stirs up particularly … Read More ›
Reaching our carbon emission goals requires efforts on all fronts of carbon management; decreasing carbon emissions, capturing carbon and storing carbon. Traditionally, cost and resource … Read More ›
Chemical separation processes are essential in the manufacturing of many products from gasoline to whiskey. Such processes are energetically costly, accounting for approximately 10–15 percent … Read More ›
A major research challenge in the field of nanotechnology is finding efficient ways to control light, an ability essential for high-resolution imaging, biosensors and cell … Read More ›