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 ›
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With appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, as well as the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Penn Arts & … Read More ›
The Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded initiative, released a report today delineating bold, fundamental research priorities the engineering research community … Read More ›
Many of the concerns surrounding the impact of echo chambers — communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their … 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 ›
From Monday, May 23 through Friday May 27, Penn Engineering hosted the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers‘ (IEEE) International Conference on Robotics and Automation … 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 ›
Whether it be the fluid motions of the centipede as it propels itself along, or the intestines ability to usher food through the digestive system, … Read More ›
Duncan Watts is sitting in his home office, surrounded by spare walls, a skylight, a potted plant, and squealing children in the next room. He’s … Read More ›
The White House National Science and Technology Council’s National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) coordinates between the many federal agencies and institutions that support nanoscale research. It … Read More ›