Category: In the News

When the COVID-19 pandemic began taking hold in the United States, one of the first “superspreader” events was an academic conference. Such conferences have long … Read More ›

Monroe Kennedy III graduated from the doctoral program in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2019 and is now an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering … Read More ›

Kristian Lum, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, was recently featured on ACM ByteCast, a podcast series from the Association for … Read More ›

Yesterday, Marc Miskin, assistant professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, published a paper in the journal Nature detailing a new kind of robot he … Read More ›

Early attempts to understand how the brain works included the pseudoscience of phrenology, which theorized that various mental functions could be determined through the shape … Read More ›

Danielle Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been called the “doyenne of network neuroscience.” The … Read More ›

Last week, the National Science Foundation announced the Penn-headquartered IoT4Ag (Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture) Center. As one of the NSF’s Engineering Research Centers, IoT4Ag … Read More ›

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

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 ›

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 ›