In 2007, women made up only 30% of Penn Engineering’s undergraduate class when Susan Davidson, Weiss Professor in Computer and Information Science, first launched the … Read More ›
“We need to think big in antibiotics research,” says Cesar de la Fuente. “Over one million people die every year from drug-resistant infections, and this … Read More ›
Mechanical chemistry, or mechanochemistry, is the crushing of chemicals to produce reactions and substances. For instance, diamonds are created when carbon is squeezed under enormous … Read More ›
Robots are now helping people compose emails and vacuum their homes, but we are still far away from having a Jetson’s-style, live-in robot to help … Read More ›
A research team led by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University scientists has created a new synthetic biology approach, or a … Read More ›
Two years after the project ceremonially broke ground at 34th and Chestnut streets, members of the Penn community gathered on Wednesday for the “topping off” … Read More ›
Artificial intelligence has made exponential leaps in its ability to produce text that looks and sounds like human-generated writing. Research shows, however, that machine-generated text … Read More ›
Artificial intelligence is a new addition to the infectious disease researcher’s toolbox. Yet in merely half a decade, AI has accelerated progress on some of … Read More ›
When trying to choose between two career paths—dentistry and engineering—Kyle Vining decided ‘Why not both?’ Vining joined Penn in July 2022 and is jointly appointed in … Read More ›
The Big Data revolution has strained the capabilities of state-of-the-art electronic hardware, challenging engineers to rethink almost every aspect of the microchip. With ever more … Read More ›