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A rendering of Amy Gutmann Hall featuring Cascode, illuminated at night.
In the News

Cascode, an Art Installation that Visualizes Data, Commissioned for Amy Gutmann Hall

Located at the northeast corner of 34th and Chestnut Streets, the forthcoming Amy Gutmann Hall will serve as the hub for Penn Engineering’s IDEAS Initiative, … Read More ›

Posted on February 23, 2022March 16, 2022
In a picture from 1982, Paul Greenberg and Kevin Penn pose in Hey Day's traditional boater hats
Guest Posts

Paul Greenberg, Penn Engineering Advisor and Alumnus, on Giving Back

Paul S. Greenberg serves as a Penn Engineering Advisor and is a member of the Penn Engineering Annual Giving February Challenge Committee. Paul is Managing … Read More ›

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022
The gilded walls of a medieval church
Students

Envisioning Gold: Digitally Recreating a 700-year-old Serbian Church

Staring at the faded frescos in a medieval church in Serbia, University of Pennsylvania’s Ivan Drpić wondered what it must have been like 700 years ago, when the … Read More ›

Posted on February 21, 2022
Chinedum Osuji
Honors + Awards

Chinedum Osuji receives a 2021 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award

  Chinedum Osuji, Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a 2021 Intel Outstanding … Read More ›

Posted on February 20, 2022February 20, 2022
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Secure Wellcome Leap Contract for Lipid Nanoparticle Research Essential in Delivery of RNA Therapies

Penn Engineering secured a multi-million-dollar contract with Wellcome Leap under the organization’s $60 million RNA Readiness + Response (R3) program, which is jointly funded with … Read More ›

Posted on February 18, 2022
a close up of a laser array in a lab
Research + Innovation

Uncovering Unexpected Properties in a Complex Quantum Material

A new study describes previously unexpected properties in a complex quantum material known as Ta2NiSe5. Using a novel technique developed at Penn, these findings have … Read More ›

Posted on February 16, 2022
Deep Jariwala and Yuxin Chen
Honors + Awards

Deep Jariwala and Yuxin Chen Named 2022 Sloan Research Fellows

Deep Jariwala, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), and Yuxin Chen, associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science in the Wharton … Read More ›

Posted on February 15, 2022February 15, 2022
Duncan Watts
Research + Innovation

Success Stories Cause False Beliefs About Success

In a study published by the journal Judgment and Decision Making, Stevens University Professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Computer and Information Science and Computational … Read More ›

Posted on February 15, 2022February 15, 2022
An illustration of a lightsail being pushed through space by a massive laser beam emanating from Earth.
Research + Innovation

How to Design a Sail that Won’t Tear or Melt on an Interstellar Voyage

Astronomers have been waiting decades for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises to peer farther into space than ever before. But … Read More ›

Posted on February 9, 2022February 9, 2022
Tal Rabin
Academics

Tal Rabin on the History and Future of Women in Data Science 

When computing technology first emerged at the end of World War II, women were a major part of the budding workforce that was trained to … Read More ›

Posted on February 7, 2022February 7, 2022

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