The history of Philadelphia’s water lies mostly underground, buried and dormant. Watershed maps show a slow and persistent erasure of the streams that once covered … Read More ›
Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), works to identify how synthetic and biological materials … Read More ›
In 1999, Tom Cassel (ME’68, GME’73, GR’79) was a Penn Engineering doctoral alumnus with decades of entrepreneurial success in the energy sector. With a career … Read More ›
Novel molecular and cellular therapies are being discovered and optimized through interdisciplinary approaches across medicine and engineering. Thanks to this concerted effort, technologies such as … Read More ›
Rigor in how science is done and how results are analyzed and communicated is essential for science to be useful in the real world. Without … Read More ›
The 2024 TIME100 Climate list has selected Vanessa Chan, Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, in the Leader category. Chan, … Read More ›
Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation (Penn4C), an initiative led jointly by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) and the School of Engineering and Applied … Read More ›
The Honorable Michael Nutter (W’79), Bernard Smalley, Vijay Kumar, Marsha Lester and George Pappas, from left. On November 20, scientists, academics and members of the … Read More ›
Penn Engineers have cooked up a new way to improve mRNA delivery, developing an optimal “recipe” for ionizable lipids — key ingredients in lipid nanoparticles … Read More ›
Nanotechnology receives praise in physics, the medical world, and all that lies between. I first heard about nanotechnology in a high school class and was drawn … Read More ›