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Xujing Wu at Mt. Rainier
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Xunjing Wu on a Mid-career Switch to Computer Science

Xunjing Wu was working as a GIS analyst in a global infrastructure company in 2015 when she signed up for her very first computer science … Read More ›

Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021
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Celebrating Penn Engineering’s 2021 Graduates

Penn Engineering’s Class of 2021 Celebrations took place virtually on Thursday, May 13 and Friday, May 14. Both Thursday’s Doctoral ceremony and Friday’s undergraduate and … Read More ›

Posted on June 2, 2021
Collage of students who participated in the "I Look Like an Engineer" campaign.
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‘I Look Like an Engineer’

Penn Engineering’s Advancing Women in Engineering (AWE) program, dedicated to recruiting, retaining and promoting all female-identified students in the School, participated in the “I Look … Read More ›

Posted on May 28, 2021May 29, 2021
Screenshot from virtual BETA Day
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Bioengineering Graduate Students Take the Annual BETA Day Online

Every spring, the Graduate Association of Bioengineers (GABE) at Penn partners up with iPraxis, an educational non-profit organization based in Philadelphia, to organize BETA Day, an event that brings … Read More ›

Posted on May 25, 2021
Hyacinthe Uwizera photo by Eric Sucar
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From Insightful Courses to Traveling and Teaching, Reflecting on Penn’s ‘Unending Opportunities’

Reflecting on her time at Penn, senior Hyacinthe Uwizera admits that she does have one regret: not heading downtown after the Eagles won the Super … Read More ›

Posted on May 17, 2021
Maji team members Leah Voytovich and Martin Leet
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Empowering Refugee Communities with Access to Clean Water

Seniors Martin Leet and Leah Voytovich first met through a mutual friend during their junior year and quickly hit it off. “We just started talking, … Read More ›

Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021
Yasmina Al Ghadban stands in front of the Towne Building
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Looking Towards the Future Through an Interdisciplinary Lens

While reflecting on her undergraduate journey at Penn, senior Yasmina Al Ghadban says that she has a “ton of memories” she will take with her: … Read More ›

Posted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021
Maji team members Leah Voytovich and Martin Leet
Students

Maji, 2021 President’s Engagement Prize Winner, Will Aid Refugees in Uganda

The annual President’s Engagement Prize and President’s Innovation Prize empower Penn students to design and undertake post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference in … Read More ›

Posted on April 19, 2021April 20, 2021
Nikil Ragav
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The Impact of Providing Hands-on, Interactive Projects

Nikil Ragav’s inventXYZ program is dedicated to bringing high-tech, hands-on education to high school students everywhere by setting up makerspaces, or collaborative work spaces, at … Read More ›

Posted on March 5, 2021
A screenshot from Sung's course, showing a competition between two virtual robotic arms.
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Virtual Robots: Taking Risks in an Online Classroom

Usually taken by first-year graduate students in robotics, “Intro to Robotics” is a course on modeling and planning for how a robot will turn digital … Read More ›

Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

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