Category: In the News

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 at … Read More ›

The technology behind video games is serious business. Beyond driving a multibillion-dollar industry, consumer demand for realistic graphics and three-dimensional physics is major force in … Read More ›

Algorithms, the digital decision-making tools at the core of some of the most successful and powerful technologies of the modern era, don’t come to conclusions … Read More ›

Social media is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools for political communication in the 21st century, with breaking news, governmental proclamations, protest movements and … Read More ›

In 2017, Brandon Kao of Penn Engineering, and Rui Jing Jiang and Adarsh Battu of the Wharton School, devised a way to use a nanoscale material … Read More ›

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 ›