Jing (Jane) Li of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Li Shen of the Perelman School of Medicine have been named Distinguished … Read More ›
Dani Smith Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in Bioengineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering in Penn Engineering, has been named the recipient of the … Read More ›
Three Penn faculty members have been named National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine and Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied … Read More ›
Fourth-year Chin Chin Choi and alumni Aaron Guo, Moksh Jawa, Jiaqi Liu, and Edward Zhi En Tan have been named to the eighth class of Schwarzman Scholars and … Read More ›
When NASA docks two spacecraft in orbit, timing is critical. Their movements must be precisely synchronized with each other to prevent catastrophic failure, which means … Read More ›
John Crocker had expected to see a flat line — a familiar horizontal track with some slight peaks and valleys — but the plot of … Read More ›
The Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) is “the premier university innovation, venture creation, and commercialization center,” says Associate Vice Provost for Research and Managing Director John Swartley. … Read More ›
Penn has received a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) aimed at increasing inclusivity in teaching and learning in the STEM fields: science, technology, … Read More ›
Soft robots, or those made with materials like rubber, gels and cloth, have advantages over their harder, heavier counterparts, especially when it comes to tasks … Read More ›
If you’d read about it in a science fiction novel, you might not have believed it. Human organs and organ systems — from lungs to blood vessels to blinking eyes — … Read More ›