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In the News

‘X-RHex, Movie Star’

When it comes to Hollywood, robots are often cast as the perfect villains, destined to wreak havoc, turn on their creators, or show up programmed to … Read More ›

Posted on August 10, 2021August 10, 2021
Inforgraphic showing how LEAD diagnostic systems are fabricated.
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Create Faster and Cheaper COVID-19 Testing With Pencil Lead

Testing is key to understanding and controlling the spread of COVID-19, which has already taken more than four million lives around the world. However, current … Read More ›

Posted on August 9, 2021August 23, 2021
A simulation of the researchers' polymer, showing expanding proton channels as water is added.
Research + Innovation

No Dead Ends: New Material Makes for a Promising Fuel Cell Electrolyte

Fuel cells are likely to become an important energy conversion solution, as they can turn clean, abundant hydrogen into large amounts of electrical power — enough … Read More ›

Posted on August 5, 2021August 6, 2021
Jing Li and Jialiang Zhang
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineering’s ENIAD Sets New World Record for Energy-efficient Supercomputing

When it comes to supercomputers, raw speed is no longer enough to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems. When the data being crunched … Read More ›

Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021
Chinedum Osuji delivers a kick in a taekwondo match at the 2004 Olympic Games
Academics

‘The Last Thing We Can Afford is to Be Pessimistic’ 

Earlier this summer, Chinedum Osuji, Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), began his term as department chair. … Read More ›

Posted on August 3, 2021August 4, 2021
Henry Daniell and Daeyeon Lee
Honors + Awards

Penn Dental Medicine, Penn Engineering Award First IDEA Prize to Advance Oral Health Care Innovation

Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering, which teamed earlier this year to launch the Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry (CiPD), recently awarded the Center’s first IDEA … Read More ›

Posted on August 2, 2021
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Help Launch TILOS, a New NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Focused on Optimization

Through a $20 Million grant, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established the Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, or TILOS. As one of TILOS’ … Read More ›

Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021
Eugene Ko and Shu Yang
Honors + Awards

Assistive Technology for Infants with Cleft Palate Wins Inaugural Advancing Oral & Craniofacial Health Award

The Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry (CiPD), a collaboration between Penn Dental Medicine and Penn Engineering, has presented its inaugural Advancing Oral & Craniofacial … Read More ›

Posted on July 28, 2021July 29, 2021
A thin microbattery powering a green LED rests atop a dandelion.
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers’ Packaging-free Design Quadruples Microbatteries’ Energy Density

With wireless-enabled electronics becoming smaller and more ubiquitous, their designers must constantly find ways for batteries to store more power in less space. And because … Read More ›

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021
Jenny Jiang
Grants

Jenny Jiang Receives Immunotherapy Grant from Cancer Research Institute

Jenny Jiang, the Peter & Geri Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation in the department of Bioengineering, has received a Lloyd J. Old STAR Program grant … Read More ›

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

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