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Rebecca Peng with her fellow interns and supervisors on her first day of work.
Guest Posts

‘The Surprising Power of Foosball’

  Rebecca Peng, a rising sophomore from Pittsburgh majoring in Computer Science at Penn Engineering, is spending the summer working on environmental sustainability issues at  … Read More ›

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022
Erin Anderson
Honors + Awards

Erin Anderson Wins Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students

The Office of the Provost awards the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students in recognition of their profound impact on education across … Read More ›

Posted on July 19, 2022July 25, 2022
Deep Jariwala receives his IUPAP Young Scientist Award and medal.
Honors + Awards

Deep Jariwala Awarded Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductors from IUPAP

Deep Jariwala, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the 2022 Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductors from the International … Read More ›

Posted on July 13, 2022July 13, 2022
A microscope image of a monocyte, colored purple.
Research + Innovation

Deconstructing the Mechanics of Bone Marrow Disease

  Fibrosis is the thickening of various tissues caused by the deposition of fibrillar extracellular matrix (ECM) in tissues and organs as part of the … Read More ›

Posted on July 12, 2022
A tuba player bathed in neon green light, as the droplets coming out of the instrument are illuminated by a laser.
Research + Innovation

Music-making and the Flow of Aerosols

The latest research from the labs of Penn scientists Paulo Arratia and Douglas Jerolmack was an answer to “a call for help,” says Arratia. It was 2020, and the Philadelphia … Read More ›

Posted on July 11, 2022July 10, 2022
Students pose next to their poster
Students

‘A Cleaner, Greener Airport of the Future’

Last month, Penn’s Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club (WUAC) traveled to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to present its well-researched vision: a modular set … Read More ›

Posted on July 8, 2022July 8, 2022
The researchers' material being mechanically stretched. A tear has begun propagating along the length of the material, but has stopped in a region where embedded glass fibers are giving the material extra resistance.
Research + Innovation

Inspired by the Human Heart, Penn Engineers Design a Soft Material that is Tear Resistant

The human heart beats more than two billion times in an average lifespan. The aorta’s tissue is strong enough to withstand this stress, yet flexible … Read More ›

Posted on July 6, 2022July 8, 2022
An inforgraphic showing how the researchers' brushing and flossing microrobots are shaped and controlled by an external magnetic field.
Research + Innovation

Shapeshifting Microrobots Can Brush and Floss Teeth

A shapeshifting robotic microswarm may one day act as a toothbrush, rinse, and dental floss in one. The technology, developed by a multidisciplinary team at … Read More ›

Posted on July 5, 2022July 5, 2022
Linh Thi Xuan Phan
Grants

Linh Thi Xuan Phan Joins NSF Project on Cyber-Physical Systems for Transportation Technology

As self-driving cars gain the technical and legal ability to autonomously operate in more places, they will face new obstacles and more significant consequences while … Read More ›

Posted on June 30, 2022July 5, 2022
The co-directors of CIPD stand with their new class of postdoctoral fellows, as well as the Dean of the School of Dental Medicine
Academics

Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry Welcomes Inaugural Class to Training Program

With one of its key missions to develop a new generation of scientists at the interface of dental medicine and engineering, the Center for Innovation & … Read More ›

Posted on June 28, 2022July 1, 2022

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