César de la Fuente a Presidential Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine’s departments of Psychiatry and Microbiology and Engineering’s department of Bioengineering, has … Read More ›
Brian Litt, professor in Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering and the Perelman School of Medicine’s departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, has received a five-year, $5.6 million … Read More ›
Our understanding of quantum physics has involved the creation of a wide range of “quasiparticles.” These notional constructs describe emergent phenomena that appear to have … Read More ›
New Research from Penn Engineering and MIT Shows How Nanoparticles Can Turn Off Genes in Bone Marrow
Using specialized nanoparticles, researchers from Penn Engineering and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a way to turn off specific genes in cells … Read More ›
Social media is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools for political communication in the 21st century, with breaking news, governmental proclamations, protest movements and … Read More ›
Avisi Technologies, Winner of the President’s Innovation Prize and Y-Prize, Takes Home $1M NSF Grant
In 2017, Brandon Kao of Penn Engineering, and Rui Jing Jiang and Adarsh Battu of the Wharton School, devised a way to use a nanoscale material … Read More ›
César de la Fuente, Presidential Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Microbiology, and Bioengineering, was named one of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) 35 members under 35 for 2020. … Read More ›
While this Crookes radiometer might look like one you’d find at a science museum gift shop at the first glance, it’s outfitted with pieces of … Read More ›
It’s March 2020, and my summer is looking absolutely fantastic. Me, a freshman who (let’s face it) never really knows what’s going on in her … Read More ›
When the COVID-19 pandemic began taking hold in the United States, one of the first “superspreader” events was an academic conference. Such conferences have long … Read More ›