Category: Medium.com Archive

Viewpoint Wins First Comcast Pennovation Challenge In January, Pennovation Center and the Penn Center for Innovation partnered with Comcast in a search for Internet-of-Things applications … Read More ›

Huh Lab Receives $1 Million for Organ-on-a-Chip Cancer Immunotherapy Research Dan Dongeun Huh The Cancer Research Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports research into immunotherapies for … Read More ›

Penn Electric Racing team leads the pack in North America The Engineering-based Penn Electric Racing team is on a roll. After their early-June win in the … Read More ›

Penn Researchers Engineer Macrophages to Engulf Cancer Cells in Solid Tumors Macrophages, like this one from the Discher lab, are literally “big eaters.” As part of … Read More ›

Penn Students’ Design To Reach New Heights Aboard the ISS By Erica Andersen Jaimie Carlson, Adam Zachar and Laura Gao In response to a call to “Print … Read More ›

Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’ At first glance, Alex Burka, a Ph.D. student in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, looks like a … Read More ›

Penn Collaboration Produces Surprising Insights Into the White Spots on Butterfly Wings Skipper butterflies, found in the Costa Rican rainforest, are only active either late … Read More ›

Mobility21’s Megan Ryerson on the Future of Intercity Transportation with Autonomous Vehicles Megan Ryerson, a professor in Penn’s schools of Design and Engineering, is the … Read More ›

Mobility21’s Erick Guerra Seeks to Improve Transportation Safety, Efficiency and Access Erick Guerra led a graduate design studio focused on improving the cycling infrastructure of Querétaro, … Read More ›

Exploring New Worlds: Penn Students Design an Ice Drilling Robot for Mars Wanda Lipps, Gautam Nagaraj, and Michael Gromis, all students in Penn’s School of Engineering … Read More ›