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Avisi Technologies' Brandon Kao at work.
In the News

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 ›

Posted on October 1, 2020October 5, 2020
Cesar de la Fuente
Honors + Awards

César de la Fuente on AIChE’s ’35 Under 35′ List

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 ›

Posted on October 1, 2020
Research + Innovation

From an Old Toy to a New Mechanism of Flight

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 ›

Posted on September 30, 2020September 30, 2020
Anna Jiang working at a laptop.
Guest Posts

Obstacles and Growth

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 ›

Posted on September 28, 2020September 28, 2020
In the News

‘The Self-Organized Movement to Create an Inclusive Computational Neuroscience School’

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 ›

Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020
Christopher B. Murray
Honors + Awards

Christopher B. Murray Named 2020 Citation Laureate, a Mark of ‘Nobel Class’ Research

  Christopher B. Murray, Richard Perry University Professor in Chemistry and in Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected as a Citation Laureate for 2020. … Read More ›

Posted on September 23, 2020
One of Treeswift's flying robots on a test run.
Students

Treeswift’s Autonomous Robots Take Flight to Save Forests

Forests cover 30 percent of the Earth’s landmass, but that number is on the decline. Despite forests’ crucial role in conserving wildlife and processing carbon … Read More ›

Posted on September 22, 2020October 1, 2020
Monroe Kennedy III
In the News

The Robot Report: Black in Robotics’ Monroe Kennedy on His Time in the GRASP Lab

Monroe Kennedy III graduated from the doctoral program in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2019 and is now an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering … Read More ›

Posted on September 21, 2020September 21, 2020
Alex Breitweiser
Honors + Awards

Quantum Engineering Lab Member Alex Breitweiser Awarded IBM PhD Fellowship 

Alex Breitweiser, a graduate student in the School of Arts & Science’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and member of Penn Engineering’s Quantum Engineering Laboratory, … Read More ›

Posted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020
James Pikul
Honors + Awards

James Pikul Awarded 2020 Moore Inventor Fellowship to Develop ‘Synthetic Metabolism’

James Pikul, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been awarded a 2020 Moore Inventor Fellowship. Created by the Gordon and Betty Moore … Read More ›

Posted on September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

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