Category: Medium.com Archive

Penn Engineering and Medicine come together to lead the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine Kathleen Stebe As nanotechnology opens up a world of … Read More ›

Watch “Innovator Under 35” Aleksandra Vojvodic at EmTech Aleksandra Vojvodic, the Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is one … Read More ›

Penn Engineering’s Aleksandra Vojvodic is Catalyzing Ideas for Clean Energy For nearly half a century, chemists, physicists and engineers have dreamed of a “hydrogen economy.” In … Read More ›

Chris Callison-Burch and Ellie Pavlick Crowdsourcing Gun Violence Research Gun violence is often described as an epidemic, but as visible and shocking as shooting incidents are, epidemiologists … Read More ›

Freedman, left, instructing UPRM students during a laboratory workshop featuring soft tissue dissection. Students later performed mechanical testing on dissected tendons and quantified their material … Read More ›

Yale Goldman and Vivek Shenoy NSF Helps Establish The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology with $24 Mil Grant The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Pennsylvania … Read More ›

Smart Windows and Ultrathin Plates: 2016 Y-Prize Kicks Off Each year, Engineering, Wharton and the Penn Center for Innovation come together for an invention competition known … Read More ›

RHex, one of Kod*Lab’s legged robots, showing off its moves. Introducing Ghost Robotics and Minitaur GRASP’s flying robots are always coming up with new tricks, but … Read More ›

Penn Network Visualization Program’s Exhibit of Scientific Art Network science looks at the interplay between elements of interconnected systems, such as people on the internet … Read More ›

Feats to Fortify Internet Security Entering the cafe, he was warmly greeted (“Sama!!”) by a neighborhood friend. Their brief exchange prefigured what would soon become apparent … Read More ›