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Research + Innovation

Penn, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins to Develop New Turing Tests, Investigate How AI Can Become More Like Biological Intelligence

While artificial intelligence is becoming a bigger part of nearly every industry and increasingly present in everyday life, even the most impressive AI is no … Read More ›

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021
Yixi (Cecilia) Wang
Students

Senior Yixi (Cecilia) Wang Receives Schwarzman Scholarship

Senior Yixi (Cecilia) Wang is one of four Penn students to receive a Schwarzman Scholarship, which funds a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua … Read More ›

Posted on December 21, 2020
Ruby Washington
Students

Ruby Washington: Poised to Make Her Mark in Bioengineering

Data show that healthcare disparities plague the Black community in America, making it harder to receive adequate treatment and care. But rather than just accepting … Read More ›

Posted on December 17, 2020December 18, 2020
Brandon Gonzalez
Students

Brandon Gonzalez: Discovering a Passion for Engineering

For some, engineering captures the imagination at a young age. But while Brandon Gonzalez wondered at the marvels of his Nintendo Game Boy when he … Read More ›

Posted on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
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Honors + Awards

Firooz Aflatouni Wins 2020 Bell Labs Prize

The Bell Labs Prize awarded by Nokia Bell Labs is a yearly contest in which researchers from around the world submit proposals for “disruptive innovations … Read More ›

Posted on December 14, 2020December 15, 2020
Isabella Candido
Students

New Skills and New Beginnings with Penn Cybersecurity Boot Camp

Isabella Candido grew up in Delaware, attended college locally, and worked in the healthcare field before eventually shifting gears. Eager for a change of pace, she … Read More ›

Posted on December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
J.D. Albert
Honors + Awards

J.D. Albert Named 2020 National Academy of Inventors Fellow

J.D. Albert, lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and the Integrated Design Program, which is jointly offered by Penn Engineering, the … Read More ›

Posted on December 8, 2020December 11, 2020
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Grants

Marc Miskin Wins Two Young Investigator Awards for Microrobotic Research

Marc Miskin, assistant professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded two young investigator projects in support of his research on … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2020
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Grants

Engineering and Medicine Researchers Collaborate on Studies of Genome Folding in Health and Disease

Popular accounts of the human genome often depict it as a long string of DNA base pairs, but in reality the genome is separated into … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2020
Firooz Aflatouni with students
Research + Innovation

Faster Together: Firooz Aflatouni’s Electronic-photonic Innovations

The first-ever image of a black hole, published in 2019, was constructed from five petabytes of data. These files were so large that they had … Read More ›

Posted on December 3, 2020December 4, 2020

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