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Shriya Karam receiving a 2023 Eisenhower Fellowship plaque
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation, Students

Shriya Karam Awarded Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship

Shriya Karam has utilized her Penn Engineering undergraduate experience to research and develop methods in transportation accessibility and equity. The fourth-year undergraduate in the Department … Read More ›

Posted on March 6, 2023March 7, 2023
A robot with a speech bubble sits next to a smartphone
Research + Innovation

Real or Fake Text? We Can Learn to Spot the Difference

The most recent generation of chatbots has surfaced longstanding concerns about the growing sophistication and accessibility of artificial intelligence. Fears about the integrity of the … Read More ›

Posted on February 27, 2023
FPGA best paper winners - Li, Wong and Zhang
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Penn Researchers Receive Best Paper Award at FPGA 2023

Penn Engineering researchers Jing (Jane) Li, Linus Y. Wong and Jialiang Zhang are recipients of the Best Paper Award at the 31st Association for Computing … Read More ›

Posted on February 24, 2023
Research + Innovation

What Can Network Theory Offer Public Health?

If it were up to engineering, everything would be optimized. Efficiency would rule, and the best available outcomes would frictionlessly elevate scientific research, live at … Read More ›

Posted on February 23, 2023May 3, 2023
Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns
Research + Innovation

U.S. Census Data Vulnerable to Attack Without Enhanced Privacy Measures

Computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science have designed a “reconstruction attack” that proves U.S. Census data is vulnerable … Read More ›

Posted on February 21, 2023February 21, 2023
3d render of cells secreting exosomes
Research + Innovation

New Insights into the Mechanisms of Tumor Growth

In many instances, the physical manifestation of cancers and the ways they are subsequently diagnosed is via a tumor, tissue masses of mutated cells and … Read More ›

Posted on February 20, 2023
Covid Misinformation Graphic
Grants, Research + Innovation

Why COVID Misinformation Continues to Spread

For the better part of three years now, COVID-19 has dominated news cycles, with pandemic-related information showing up in social media as much as—or sometimes … Read More ›

Posted on February 17, 2023
Seed in Rain
Research + Innovation

Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seed

How seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium, whose five-petalled flowers of purple, pink or white look like geraniums. … Read More ›

Posted on February 16, 2023
Research + Innovation

Targeted Prenatal Therapy for Mothers and Their Babies Addresses Longstanding Gap in Health Equity

New research on reproductive health demonstrates the first successful delivery of mRNA to placental cells to treat pre-eclampsia at its root. Pre-eclampsia is a leading … Read More ›

Posted on February 15, 2023
Alumni, Research + Innovation

Sculptural Sweets

In a few short decades, 3D printing has gone from unique to ubiquitous. It’s used nearly everywhere, from making toys and gadgets in classrooms nationwide … Read More ›

Posted on February 14, 2023

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