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In the News, Research + Innovation

Online Health Care Reviews Turned Negative Following COVID Pandemic

After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, online reviews of health care facilities dropped significantly, and they have not yet fully recovered, according to a new analysis … Read More ›

Posted on December 6, 2024December 9, 2024
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Research + Innovation, Students

Rivers in a Changing World

The history of Philadelphia’s water lies mostly underground, buried and dormant. Watershed maps show a slow and persistent erasure of the streams that once covered … Read More ›

Posted on December 5, 2024December 9, 2024
Grants, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Shu Yang and Collaborators Receive NSF Grant for Multidisciplinary Graduate Program across Engineering and Architecture

Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), works to identify how synthetic and biological materials … Read More ›

Posted on December 3, 2024December 9, 2024
Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship celebrates 25 years
Alumni, Research + Innovation

Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship at 25: Bridging Science and Business for Success in a Tech-Driven Economy

In 1999, Tom Cassel (ME’68, GME’73, GR’79) was a Penn Engineering doctoral alumnus with decades of entrepreneurial success in the energy sector. With a career … Read More ›

Posted on December 2, 2024
Events, In the News, Research + Innovation

Inaugural CPE4H Symposium Explores Engineering’s Role in Precision Medicine

Novel molecular and cellular therapies are being discovered and optimized through interdisciplinary approaches across medicine and engineering. Thanks to this concerted effort, technologies such as … Read More ›

Posted on November 27, 2024December 9, 2024
Events, In the News, Research + Innovation

C4R Raises the Bar in Scientific Rigor Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Rigor in how science is done and how results are analyzed and communicated is essential for science to be useful in the real world. Without … Read More ›

Posted on November 26, 2024December 9, 2024
A group of students receiving an award for the Penn 4 C program.
Events, Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Penn4C Celebrates Annual Awardee Achievements

Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation (Penn4C), an initiative led jointly by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) and the School of Engineering and Applied … Read More ›

Posted on November 25, 2024December 9, 2024
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Research + Innovation

Cooking Up a Breakthrough: Penn Engineers Refine Lipid Nanoparticles for Better mRNA Therapies

Penn Engineers have cooked up a new way to improve mRNA delivery, developing an optimal “recipe” for ionizable lipids — key ingredients in lipid nanoparticles … Read More ›

Posted on November 22, 2024November 22, 2024
Picture of Ngaatendwe Manyika ('27), a Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics major, researched developing nano-porous devices for water filtration under the mentorship of Dr. Marija Drndić (Department of Physics and Astronomy) through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.
Research + Innovation, Students

Humor Is Humans’ Best Skill

Nanotechnology receives praise in physics, the medical world, and all that lies between. I first heard about nanotechnology in a high school class and was drawn … Read More ›

Posted on November 21, 2024December 9, 2024
Four researchers sit side by side in a lab.
Research + Innovation, Students

Unlocking Multi-Core Potential: Robert Gifford’s Breakthroughs in Real-Time System Safety

Robert Gifford, a doctoral candidate with the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE) Center, is at the forefront of revolutionizing real-time … Read More ›

Posted on November 20, 2024June 2, 2025

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