Skip to content
Penn Engineering Blog

Posts from the School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Blog
  • Newsroom
  • Magazine
  • Penn Engineering Home
Sherry (Xue) Gao, Presidental Penn Compact Associate Professor in Bioengineering
Research + Innovation

Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Sherry Gao Pushes the Boundaries of Genetic Engineering

Sherry (Xue) Gao, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), always knew she had a future in the lab. “I grew … Read More ›

Posted on March 18, 2024April 2, 2024
A CAR T cell, colored red, attacks a cancer cell, colored blue.
Research + Innovation

Accelerating CAR T Cell Therapy: Lipid Nanoparticles Speed Up Manufacturing

For patients with certain types of cancer, CAR T cell therapy has been nothing short of life changing. Developed in part by Carl June, Richard … Read More ›

Posted on March 18, 2024
Portrait of Samantha McBride wearing a dark-colored blazer with her hair down.
Research + Innovation

Interfacial Phenomena: Samantha McBride’s Untapped Resource for Water Sustainability

In a typical year, Reno, Nevada, receives just seven and a half inches of rain. For Samantha McBride, the newest faculty member in Mechanical Engineering … Read More ›

Posted on March 12, 2024March 4, 2024
Joey Wu, a student in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), gave a presentation on "Super Plants" as part of the Lightning Talks during Energy Week in 2023. Student is standing at a podium giving a lecture.(Image: Courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
Events, Students

Energy Week to Highlight Research Across Disciplines at Penn

  Energy Week returns to the University of Pennsylvania this year March 11-15, an opportunity to learn about energy-transition research and to hear from Penn scientists, … Read More ›

Posted on March 11, 2024
A group of women in the audience of the Women in Data Science Conference @ Penn look toward a presenter speaking.
Events, In the News, Students

Beyond Bias: The Annual Women in Data Science Conference Unites Women across Penn

In Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez notes that the default perspective for virtually all data collection and … Read More ›

Posted on March 8, 2024August 22, 2024
Portrait of Jenny Jiang, smiling and looking at the camera.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Jenny Jiang Wins CZI Grant to Investigate the Potential Trigger for Neurodegenerative Diseases

TDP-43 may be one of the most dangerous proteins in the human body, implicated in neurodegenerative conditions like ALS and Alzheimer’s disease. But the protein … Read More ›

Posted on March 6, 2024March 4, 2024
Rithwik Udayagiri, Pranav Shah, Aadith Kumar, and Sharon Shaji pose with their commemorative check for winning the SICK $10K Challenge. Photograph by: SICK’s Dschafar El Kassem.
Students

ROBO Alumni Took a SICK Trip to Germany

Five months after being awarded first prize in the 2022-2023 SICK $10K Challenge as well as receiving their master’s degrees in robotics from the University … Read More ›

Posted on March 4, 2024March 4, 2024
Research + Innovation

Precision Pulmonary Medicine: Penn Engineers Target Lung Disease with Lipid Nanoparticles

Penn Engineers have developed a new means of targeting the lungs with lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the miniscule capsules used by the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 … Read More ›

Posted on March 1, 2024February 29, 2024
Photo of the Vagelos Labs windows that are solar panels.
In the News

What’s That? Sun Shades at the Vagelos Lab

This is … The series of sun shades at 32nd and Walnut Streets. They are designed by the Boston office of the German architectural practice … Read More ›

Posted on February 29, 2024
A lipid nanoparticle is presented in cross-section, as a bisected hemisphere made of small, orange-colored lipids.
Research + Innovation

A Moonshot for Obesity: New Molecules, Inspired by Space Shuttles, Advance Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery for Weight Control

Inspired by the design of space shuttles, Penn Engineering researchers have invented a new way to synthesize a key component of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the … Read More ›

Posted on February 26, 2024March 1, 2024

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Categories

  • Academics
  • Alumni
  • Events
  • Grants
  • Guest Posts
  • Honors + Awards
  • In the News
  • Medium.com Archive
  • Research + Innovation
  • Students

Tags

3D Modeling ai antibiotics BE CBE Cesar de la Fuente Chinedum Osuji Chloe Snyder Chris Callison-Burch CIS Clark Scholars Computer Graphics CSSLab Dan Huh Dani Bassett Duncan Watts EENT Engineering Alumni Society ESE Google GRASP GRASP Lab Jason Burdick Liang Feng lipid nanoparticles LNPs Lulu Xue Magazine News Mark Yatskar Matt Fallon MEAM Michael Posa microbiome Mike Mitchell MSE Olympics Paco Barreras Penn Alumni PRECISE precise center Responsible Innovation Senior Design Sherry Gao Vijay Kumar Yue Yang

Archives

Follow Penn Engineering

Receive Our Newsletter

Authors

avatar for Olivia J. McMahonOlivia J. McMahon
avatar for Melissa PappasMelissa Pappas
avatar for Ian SchefflerIan Scheffler
avatar for Holly WojcikHolly Wojcik
Penn Engineering Logo

School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania
220 South 33rd Street
107 Towne Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6391

Contact Penn Engineering Webmaster
Report accessibility issues and get help

© 2025 Penn Engineering Blog
Powered by WordPress / Theme by Design Lab