Category: Medium.com Archive

Inspiring Young Women in STEM Over two days, nearly two dozen female STEM role models at Penn welcomed more than 100 high school students and teachers … Read More ›

Maya Lassiter: When Curiosity Meets Nano Device Fabrication Maya Lassiter Experiencing the democratization of media through third-party applications like LimeWire, YouTube and MySpace may have … Read More ›

Computer and Information Science Names 2019 J.P. Eckert Master’s Fellows CIS master’s program director Swapneel Sheth, Ari Benkov, Brandon Joel Gonzalez, Perpetual Baffour and Associate Dean … Read More ›

Rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are a revolutionary technology, found in everything from cellphones to cars. Their ubiquity and role in breaking dependence on fossil fuels … Read More ›

University of Pennsylvania Receives $25 Million Gift to Create Data Science Building President Amy Gutmann, alum Harlan M. Stone, and Penn Engineering Nemirovsky Family Dean Vijay … Read More ›

Danielle Bassett Receives New Scholarly Chair Danielle Bassett Danielle Bassett has been named the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering. Dr. Bassett is a Professor … Read More ›

To Improve Algorithms, Embed Human Principles Into Code ‘The Ethical Algorithm,’ a new book from computer scientists Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, describes the social challenges … Read More ›

Using Systems Engineering to Design a ‘Masterpiece Spreadsheet’ For Sustaining Human Life in Space Connor Anton poses in front of a Saturn V rocket at NASA’s … Read More ›

Close your eyes. What do you see when you imagine the future? Is it a haven of ecologically sustainable technologies and AI assistance? Is it … Read More ›

The Atlantic Profiles Penn Research on Twitter and Mental Health Word clouds with the kind of language the researchers’ algorithms predicted would be more frequently posted … Read More ›