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Vanessa Chan stands with her arms crossed in front of a window, wearing a blazer with gold buttons.
Academics, Alumni, In the News

Meet Vanessa Chan: Penn Engineering’s Inaugural Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  Vanessa Chan, Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), brings a wealth of experience and a passion for innovation … Read More ›

Posted on January 27, 2025January 26, 2025
A quartet of male researchers stands behind their lab equipment, which includes mirrors and cameras.
Research + Innovation

Revolutionizing Data Centers: Penn Engineers’ Breakthrough in Photonic Switching

Every second, terabytes of data — the equivalent of downloading thousands upon thousands of movies at once — travel around the world as light in … Read More ›

Posted on January 7, 2025June 2, 2025
Cherie Kagan
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Cherie Kagan Receives 2024-25 Heilmeier Award

Cherie Kagan, Stephen J. Angello Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), has been named the recipient of the 2024-25 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award … Read More ›

Posted on December 12, 2024
Grants, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Shu Yang and Collaborators Receive NSF Grant for Multidisciplinary Graduate Program across Engineering and Architecture

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 ›

Posted on December 3, 2024December 9, 2024
Events, In the News, Research + Innovation

Inaugural CPE4H Symposium Explores Engineering’s Role in Precision Medicine

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 ›

Posted on November 27, 2024December 9, 2024
Honors + Awards, In the News

Vanessa Chan on the TIME100 Climate List

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 ›

Posted on November 25, 2024December 9, 2024
Ritesh Agrawal poses next to a microscope used in his research.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Breakthrough in Energy-Efficient Avalanche-based Amorphization Could Revolutionize Data Storage

The atoms of amorphous solids like glass have no ordered structure; they arrange themselves randomly, like scattered grains of sand on a beach. Normally, making … Read More ›

Posted on November 6, 2024November 5, 2024
Research + Innovation

Battery Innovation: Extending Lifespan and Capacity Through Self-Healing Materials

One of the greatest challenges in the fight against climate change is energy storage. Fossil fuel essentially stores itself, with its energy locked inside its … Read More ›

Posted on September 25, 2024November 16, 2024
Grants, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

Liang Feng Receives Experimental Physics Investigator Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Liang Feng, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering, is the recipient of a $1.25 million award from the Gordon … Read More ›

Posted on August 21, 2024August 21, 2024

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