(Photo: Ian Kluft) Penn Researchers Gain Insight Into a Physical Phenomenon That Leads to Earthquakes Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but … Read More ›

Penn Engineers Overcome a Hurdle in Growing a Revolutionary Optical Metamaterial John Crocker, Yifan Wang and Talid Sinno When John Crocker, a professor of chemical and … Read More ›

Penn/Wistar Study Finds ‘Sweet Spot’ Where Tissue Stiffness Drives Cancer’s Spread Hossein Ahmadzadeh and Vivek Shenoy In order for cancer to spread, malignant cells must break away … Read More ›

Penn Researchers Work to Expand Access to Health Care Using Nanotechnology A.T. Charlie Johnson and David Issadore “In the U.S., someone taking medication would check the … Read More ›

Anna Brill, Undergraduate Researcher and Robot Technician Kod*Lab member Anna Brill is excited to get back to work on the group’s biologically inspired walking, jumping … Read More ›

Building an Autonomous Service Robot with Master’s Student Alex Baucom Robotics Master’s student Alex Baucom keeps a running account of projects on his website. Most recently, … Read More ›

Mobility21: Kicking off a Transportation ‘R&D&D’ Partnership This week, Penn Engineering hosted the kick-off meeting for Mobility21, a new research partnership funded by a five-year, … Read More ›

Penn Engineers Demonstrate a ‘Hybrid Nanomanufacturing’ System Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated a way to make … Read More ›

Light Touch: Biomechatronics Students Strike a Balance in Designing Robotic Hands Biomechatronics combines insights from biology with mechanical and electronic engineering. If you’ve ever been to … Read More ›