Christopher B. Murray, Richard Perry University Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and in Chemistry, has been elected to the 2024 class of National Academy … Read More ›
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After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, online reviews of health care facilities dropped significantly, and they have not yet fully recovered, according to a new analysis … Read More ›
Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), works to identify how synthetic and biological materials … Read More ›
Novel molecular and cellular therapies are being discovered and optimized through interdisciplinary approaches across medicine and engineering. Thanks to this concerted effort, technologies such as … Read More ›
Rigor in how science is done and how results are analyzed and communicated is essential for science to be useful in the real world. Without … Read More ›
The 2024 TIME100 Climate list has selected Vanessa Chan, Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, in the Leader category. Chan, … Read More ›
The Honorable Michael Nutter (W’79), Bernard Smalley, Vijay Kumar, Marsha Lester and George Pappas, from left. On November 20, scientists, academics and members of the … Read More ›
University of Pennsylvania fourth-year Om Gandhi, from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. The Rhodes, established in 1902, … Read More ›
When asked “why study robots?” Antonio Loquercio, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, says that he himself is 10% robot. Diagnosed with diabetes when … Read More ›
In the race to develop robust perception systems for robots, one persistent challenge has been operating in bad weather and harsh conditions. For example, traditional, … Read More ›