Mayur Naik: Building Better Software
In many industries and academic fields, more people are finding it helpful to know some basic programming, but not all of them want to get full degrees in computer science. Meanwhile, as modern software ecosystems grow more and more complex, even those who do spend their undergraduate years studying computer science cannot learn everything. As […]
Penn Engineers Present New ‘Eye-on-a-Chip’
At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dan Huh and colleagues presented their research on a new ‘eye-on-a-chip,’ an artificial organ composed of living cells and a blinking, hydrogel eyelid. Researchers could potentially use the eye as a model to study conditions such as dry eye disease, and to […]
Looking for Patterns in the Folded Genome
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins and colleagues recently collaborated on a new technique, published in Nature Methods, of searching for folding patterns in the human genome. A profile of Phillips-Cremins, published in the same journal, explores the path of interests that led her to this type of research.
Vivek Shenoy: Mathematical Models for the Mechanical Body
While they can seem imperfect on the surface, our bodies are in fact finely tuned machines. Joint surfaces glide effortlessly across one another. Tendons and muscles work together to control our movements, letting us run laps, hold conversations, scarf down cheesesteaks and play piano. This complex collection of biological levers, springs and pulleys is enough […]
Sherin Sonia Jacob: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni
This is the second of our series of articles, written by Penn Engineering alums in their own words, of their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. Our second article is written by Sherin Sonia Jacob, who graduated with a master’s in Biotechnology in 2011. She is a senior health care and pharmaceutical […]
Living in a Material World
On Feb. 3, hundreds of elementary and middle-school aged students and their families gathered around tables for hands-on demonstrations and workshops with themes ranging from “bouncy balls and borax” to “muggle magic.” The demonstrations were part of the eighth annual Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day, a daylong festival hosted this year by Penn’s Laboratory […]
Dennis Discher Part of Finalist Team in £20 Million UK Cancer Research Challenge
Dennis Discher, Robert D. Bent Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is a member of one of the ten international, multidisciplinary research teams named in the second round of Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge. Winning teams will receive up to £20 million, or roughly $28 million, over the course of five years […]
Penn Engineers Test Drug Transfer Using Placenta-on-a-Chip
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated the feasibility of their “organ-on-a-chip” platform in studying how drugs are transported across the human placental barrier.
Cellview Sciences Wins Y-Prize 2018
Each year, groups of students at the University of Pennsylvania pitch competing ideas on how to turn technology developed by Penn engineers into the next big thing. The winning team receives $10,000.
Cynthia Lee: Providing Role Models for Women in Computer Science
Cynthia Lee is a senior in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS). She currently assists with research at the Computational Genetics Laboratory, where she is learning to GPU program. She spent the past two summers in Germany, interning for an e-learning research group, ELLI2 and a renewable energy firm, innogy. For more than […]