A Virtual World for an Ancient Society
Clark Erickson of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Penn Museum, describes his efforts to humanize the past, enlisting artists, field work, and digital visualization tools. In a course co-taught last fall with computer scientist Norman Badler ,Rachleff Family Professor in Computer and Information Science, Erickson helped students populate a virtual landscape with […]
Science and Politics: A Q&A with Molly Sheehan
Molly Sheehan, postdoctoral researcher in Bioengineering, sat down with Penn Today to discuss her path towards becoming a scientist, what led her to run for office, and the changes she hopes to be able to make.
Q&A with Nader Engheta in Optics & Photonics News
Stewart Wills of Optics & Photonics News caught up with Nader Engheta at CLEO 2018, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, being held in San Jose, California this week.
An Innovative Approach to Better Energy Storage
Led by Shu Yang, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, a Penn/Drexel research team has engineered a way to manipulate nanomaterials to stand up vertically on a scale that has potential for industrial applications.
Theresa Breiner: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni
This is part of our series of articles, written by Penn Engineering alumni, about their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. Our next article is written by Theresa Breiner, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Penn Arts & Sciences and a master’s degree in Computer and Information Technology (MCIT) […]
GRASP’s Research Experience for Teachers Featured in NSF Video Showcase
Penn Engineering’s GRASP lab is committed to sharing its expertise in cutting-edge robotics with the wider world. In 2015, it received a National Science Foundation grant to conduct a Research Experience for Teachers program, in which Philadelphia middle school teachers spend a summer in the lab, learning aspects of robotics that they can then impart […]
Computer Networks that Help People Stay Sober
As a member of the World Well-Being Project, a research group at Penn that uses machine learning to enable computers to better understand people’s personalities and emotions, as well as their mental and physical health, Lyle Ungar is interested the way that users express themselves on social networks. The specific words that people employ in […]
Bioengineering Grad Student Jina Ko Named Schmidt Scholar
Jina Ko, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, was among the 14 PhD candidates from the U.S., Canada, and Germany to be named to the inaugural class of Schmidt Science Fellows.
Earthquakes at the Nanoscale
Robert Carpick collaborates with Cornell postdoctoral researcher Kaiwen Tian and Penn alumni David Goldsby to publish a paper in Physical Review Letters which attempts to tackle the devastation of earthquakes by investigating the laws of friction at the smallest possible scale, the nanoscale.
Penn Engineers Win Award for Paper on AI for Smart Buildings
Engineering graduate student Achin Jain, professors Rahul Mangharam and Manfred Morari, and alumnus Truong X. Nghiem won the Best Paper Award at the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2018 for their work on bridging machine learning and control theory for physical systems. ICCPS is part of CPSWEEK, which is one of the […]