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Combining AI and Art-making for Youth Well-being

After gaining experience as a qualitative researcher in public health, Eileen Feng mused about how she might take that knowledge and apply it to product … Read More ›

Posted on March 7, 2025June 2, 2025
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Academics, Grants, Students

From Lab to Classroom: The Center for Engineering MechanoBiology Empowers Teachers and Students

“What do you remember about stress and strain?” Max Lawrence, who teaches engineering at Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, a public middle and high school … Read More ›

Posted on March 7, 2025March 5, 2025
Honors + Awards, In the News, Students

Stentix Wins 2025 Y-Prize Competition

This year’s Y-Prize competition winner is an ambitious team of undergraduates aiming to bring Penn-developed technology to patients suffering with bile duct obstructions. Their proposed … Read More ›

Posted on February 21, 2025February 24, 2025
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Academics, Students

Building Tomorrow’s Innovators: Inside Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program

The room hums with anticipation. A group of would-be founders shifts in their seats, scribbling last-minute notes and readying their pitch decks. The lights dim … Read More ›

Posted on February 13, 2025February 26, 2025
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Research + Innovation, Students

Spaces That Spark Discovery: A Look Inside One uCity Square

The importance of proper laboratory space is hard to understate. In the earliest labs, in places like ancient Egypt, alchemists, metallurgists and pharmacists might have … Read More ›

Posted on January 14, 2025February 19, 2025
Matt Fallon
Students

Engineering an Olympian

Matt Fallon’s Journey From Penn to Paris Only about 200,000 people have competed in the Olympics since their revival a little over a century ago. … Read More ›

Posted on December 20, 2024December 23, 2024
In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

A Lipid Nanoparticle Delivers mRNA Cure for Pre-eclampsia

Penn Engineers have made a critical breakthrough that bridges a major healthy equity gap for pregnant people with pre-eclampsia, a condition that arises due to … Read More ›

Posted on December 11, 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
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

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