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In the News, Research + Innovation

Pushing the Limits of Scientific Discovery with Machine Learning

What if scientists and policy-makers could automate and optimize the filtering of the massive amount of data available across each system they interact with to … Read More ›

Posted on July 30, 2024July 23, 2024
Daniel Fesbach, a Ph.D. student, holds an origami robot
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Unfolding the Next Generation of Robots: GRASP Researchers Win Award for Kinegami

Researchers in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania are developing an algorithm for designing functioning robots through … Read More ›

Posted on July 29, 2024July 29, 2024
Academics, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

2024 CAREER Award Recipient: Flavia Vitale

Neurological disorders such as epilepsy, Alzheimers, Parkinson’s and certain forms of dementia are the leading cause of disability and second-leading cause of disease worldwide. These … Read More ›

Posted on July 24, 2024July 23, 2024
Research + Innovation

Measuring Chaos: Using Machine Learning to Satisfy Our Need to Know

How do we measure chaos and why would we want to? Together, Penn engineers Dani S. Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in Bioengineering and in … Read More ›

Posted on July 22, 2024July 16, 2024
Five students in black tshirts stand before a blackboard. one of them demonstrates while talking.
Research + Innovation, Students

Innovation in Action: Penn Engineering’s 2024 Senior Design Project Competition

How do you make robotics kits affordable for children in low-income countries? Speed up the manufacturing of organs-on-a-chip? Lower the environmental impact of condiments in … Read More ›

Posted on July 18, 2024July 18, 2024
A cube on a blue background. The cube is green and gray, with a mixed pattern, showing what a bicontinuous hydrogel looks like.
Research + Innovation

Highways to Health: Bicontinuous Structures Speed Up Cell Migration

One of the most important but least understood aspects of healing is cell migration, or the process of cells moving from one part of the … Read More ›

Posted on July 17, 2024July 16, 2024
Alison Pouch
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Alison Pouch Wins 2024 Cardiac Center Innovation Award

Congratulations to Alison Pouch, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and in Radiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, on … Read More ›

Posted on July 16, 2024
Academics, Research + Innovation

Shedding Light on Cellular Metabolism to Fight Disease

Enamored by the chemical processes of life, Yihui Shen, J. Peter and Geri Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Bioengineering, started her research career as … Read More ›

Posted on July 15, 2024July 15, 2024
From left: Jamie Moffa, Konrad Kording, Kaela Singleton and Arjun Raj
In the News, Research + Innovation

From Chance to Certainty: Solving Science’s Reproducibility Crisis

One of the pillars of science is the idea that experimental results can be replicated. If they cannot be reproduced, what if the findings of … Read More ›

Posted on July 10, 2024July 17, 2024
Picture if an orange microbe
In the News, Research + Innovation

Penn Pioneers a ‘One-Pot Platform’ to Promptly Produce mRNA Delivery Particles

Imagine a scenario where a skilled hacker must upload critical software to update a central server and thwart a potentially lethal virus from wreaking havoc … Read More ›

Posted on July 10, 2024

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