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National Academy of Engineering Award to Mark Allen
Honors + Awards, In the News

Mark Allen Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Mark Allen, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering and in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been elected to the National Academy … Read More ›

Posted on February 7, 2023February 7, 2023
AAAS Winners - Insup Lee, Warren Seider and Karen Winey
Honors + Awards, In the News

Insup Lee, Warren D. Seider and Karen I. Winey Elected 2022 AAAS Fellows

Insup Lee, Warren D. Seider and Karen I. Winey are among the eight Penn scholars that have been named to the 2022 class of American … Read More ›

Posted on January 31, 2023
Nader Engheta
Honors + Awards, In the News

Penn Scientist Nader Engheta Wins the Benjamin Franklin Medal

University of Pennsylvania scientist Nader Engheta has been selected as a 2023 recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, one of the world’s oldest science and … Read More ›

Posted on January 24, 2023January 24, 2023
Photo of Rene Vidal
Academics, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

René Vidal Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

President Liz Magill and Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein announce the appointment of René Vidal as a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective January 1, 2023. … Read More ›

Posted on January 11, 2023January 25, 2023
National Academy of Inventor Fellows - Kumar, Kariko and Weissman
Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

For ‘Spirit of Innovation,’ Three from Penn Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows

Three Penn faculty members have been named National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine and Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied … Read More ›

Posted on December 8, 2022
Lin Phan THUMB
In the News, Research + Innovation

Identifying a Vulnerability in
Critical Spacecraft Networks

When NASA docks two spacecraft in orbit, timing is critical. Their movements must be precisely synchronized with each other to prevent catastrophic failure, which means … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2022December 7, 2022
Dani S. Bassett and Perry Zurn
In the News

Listen: ‘Curious Minds’ on NPR’s ‘Detroit Today’

Twin academics Dani S. Basset, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor and director of the Complex Systems Lab, and Perry Zurn, a professor of philosophy at American … Read More ›

Posted on November 14, 2022
An inforgraphic showing how the researchers' brushing and flossing microrobots are shaped and controlled by an external magnetic field.
In the News

Toothbrushing Microbots on Walter Isaacson’s ‘Trailblazers’ Podcast

Penn Dental Medicine’s Michel Koo, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD), was among a panel of researchers, engineers, and … Read More ›

Posted on October 26, 2022October 26, 2022
A robot made of lashed-together sticks and wires
In the News

‘A Robot Made of Sticks’

When Devin Carroll, a Ph.D. candidate in Penn Engineering’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab, walks the streets of Philadelphia, he keeps an … Read More ›

Posted on October 3, 2022
Child at CCCEC/Ocek story
In the News

Bolstering STEM Education in Cobbs Creek

On a warm summer day, half a dozen students from West Philadelphia’s Paul Robeson High School gathered at Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center (CCCEC) to … Read More ›

Posted on September 27, 2022September 27, 2022

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