- Newsroom
- News Archive
News Archive
Click the years below to see all items from that year, or use the provided search tools to see a filtered list of news items.
2023
(02/03/23) | ‘Topping Off’ the Future of Energy Science at Penn(01/30/23) | Kirigami Structures Pull Water from the Air(01/23/23) | New Single Cell Analysis Tool(01/20/23) | Inside the Miskin Lab: Cell-Sized Robots(01/19/23) | Inside the Ko Lab: Tracking Living Tissues(01/17/23) | In Memoriam: Charles J. McMahon (1933-2022)2022
(12/19/22) | Deep Jariwala Receives IEEE Nano Early Career Award(12/16/22) | Andre DeHon Named a 2023 IEEE Fellow(12/16/22) | Turning Carbon Emissions into Rocks(12/09/22) | Dani Smith Bassett Receives 2022-23 Heilmeier Award(12/08/22) | Penn Engineering Alumnus Named Schwarzman Scholar(11/22/22) | Penn Engineers Win 2022 Bell Labs Prize(11/15/22) | Listen: ‘Curious Minds’ on NPR’s ‘Detroit Today’(11/02/22) | Physics of Disaster: How Mudslides Move(10/10/22) | Defining Neural ‘Representation’(10/07/22) | ‘Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom’ 2022(10/03/22) | ‘A Robot Made of Sticks’(09/29/22) | Rethinking the Computer Chip in the Age of AI(09/27/22) | Bolstering STEM Education in Cobbs Creek(09/26/22) | 2022 CAREER Award Recipient: Michael Mitchell(09/23/22) | Karen Winey Receives ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry(09/22/22) | Pandemic Bike-share Boom Crossed Socioeconomic Lines(09/19/22) | Legged Robots to Aid with Planetary Research(09/12/22) | 2022 CAREER Award Recipient: Lukasz Bugaj(09/07/22) | ‘Curious Minds: The Power of Connection’(08/29/22) | ‘Where Penn Health-Tech is Going’(08/04/22) | ‘Combating Urban Heat’(07/20/22) | ‘The Surprising Power of Foosball’(07/12/22) | Deconstructing the Mechanics of Bone Marrow Disease(07/12/22) | Music-making and the Flow of Aerosols(07/08/22) | ‘A Cleaner, Greener Airport of the Future’(07/05/22) | Shapeshifting Microrobots Can Brush and Floss Teeth(06/28/22) | Kevin Johnson: Informatics Evangelist(06/08/22) | Engineering a Solution for Microplastic Pollution(06/07/22) | 2022 CAREER Award Recipient: Pratik Chaudhari(06/03/22) | Meet James C. Gee, MSE-DS Online Program Director(05/25/22) | Soft ‘Rotini’ Robots Navigate with a Snap(05/10/22) | Vaclav Vitek Elected to the Royal Society(05/03/22) | Penn Engineering Commencement 2022(05/02/22) | ‘The Data Will Save Us’(04/27/22) | More on Nanoscale Membranes with Chinedum Osuji(04/21/22) | Remembering Max Mintz(04/18/22) | Penn Engineering’s 2022 Teaching and Advising Awards(04/02/22) | Three Penn Engineers Named Goldwater Scholars(03/29/22) | Ritesh Agarwal Receives 2021-22 Heilmeier Award(03/24/22) | ‘Decentralizing Vaccine Manufacture’(03/18/22) | Decoding a Material’s ‘Memory’(03/08/22) | Sophie Bowe: A Day in the Life of a Penn Engineer(02/14/22) | Success Stories Cause False Beliefs About Success(02/02/22) | A New Makerspace for Materials Passion Projects(01/25/22) | Zachary Ives Named a 2021 ACM Fellow(01/20/22) | Math Education and Engagement in West Philadelphia2021
(12/19/21) | Penn Engineering Instagram 2021 Rewind(12/13/21) | Introducing Scholarships for MCIT Online(12/10/21) | Kevin Johnson Named University Professor(12/08/21) | Investing in Penn’s Data Science Ecosystem(11/24/21) | Strella Biotechnology Continues Scaling Up(11/21/21) | Penn’s 2021 iGEM Team Takes Home Multiple Prizes(10/28/21) | Y-Prize 2021-2022: New Memory and Steerable Needle(10/12/21) | New Mathematical Tools to Study Opinion Dynamics(09/27/21) | IceBot Lands Guinness World Record(09/08/21) | ‘Exploring Extracurriculars’(08/26/21) | 2021 CAREER Award Recipient: Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti(08/25/21) | Aaron Roth on ‘Machine Unlearning’(08/24/21) | ‘COVID-19, Protests, and Crime’(08/19/21) | ‘People and Places at Penn’(08/11/21) | ‘X-RHex, Movie Star’(08/03/21) | ‘The Last Thing We Can Afford is to Be Pessimistic’(07/22/21) | ‘The Experience Beyond the Internship’(07/20/21) | Twitter, Communities and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy(07/19/21) | A New Metric for Designing Safer Streets(07/08/21) | ‘The Hills Are Alive With the Flows of Physics’(06/24/21) | Growing ‘Metallic Wood’ to New Heights(06/17/21) | ‘Synthetic Data’ and Privacy(06/16/21) | Karen Winey: Leadership in Action(06/16/21) | Norm Badler Elected to the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy(06/02/21) | Celebrating Penn Engineering’s 2021 Graduates(05/28/21) | ‘I Look Like an Engineer’(05/26/21) | Vijay Kumar Reappointed Dean of Penn Engineering(05/25/21) | Helping Robots Collaborate to Get the Job Done(05/19/21) | Turning Data into Discoveries(05/11/21) | Penn Engineering Commencement 2021(05/10/21) | Becoming a Bioengineer, Both at Home and on Campus(05/05/21) | 2021 CAREER Award recipient: Celia Reina(05/05/21) | ‘No battery? No problem.’(04/27/21) | 2021 CAREER Award Recipient: Eric Detsi(04/21/21) | Bioengineering’s Organ-on-a-chip Spin-off is Growing(04/13/21) | 2021 CAREER Award Recipient: Sebastian Angel(04/12/21) | Michael Mitchell on Keeping mRNA Vaccines Viable(04/07/21) | Penn Engineering’s 2021 Teaching Awards(04/05/21) | Toward a Better Understanding of ‘Fake News’(04/01/21) | Two Penn Engineers Receive 2021 Lindback Awards(03/31/21) | 2021 CAREER Award Recipient: Nikolai Matni(03/31/21) | Penn Engineering 2021 Teaching Awards(03/16/21) | Playing Safe(03/05/21) | ‘This is What a Data Scientist Looks Like’(02/26/21) | An ‘Electronic Nose’ to Sniff Out COVID-19(02/24/21) | Virtual Robots: Taking Risks in an Online Classroom(02/19/21) | Marc Miskin Named 2021 Sloan Research Fellow(02/12/21) | Celebrating 75 Years of ENIAC(02/12/21) | Paris Perdikaris Wins SIAM Early Career Prize(02/08/21) | Niko Simpkins: At the Nexus of Engineering and Music(02/04/21) | Detkin Lab at Home: Coordinating for Success(01/28/21) | Maria Ovando: Research and Self-discovery(01/27/21) | Penn Engineering Nets Two Green Purchasing Awards(01/22/21) | GRASP Lab’s Coolest Robot Yet(01/14/21) | One Step Closer to an At-home, Rapid COVID-19 Test2020
(12/15/20) | Firooz Aflatouni Wins 2020 Bell Labs Prize(12/01/20) | ‘Robots are Not Immune to Bias and Injustice’(11/24/20) | Blending up New Materials(11/23/20) | ‘Uniting Against an Invisible Foe’(11/17/20) | In Memoriam: Nabil Farhat, 1933-2020(11/05/20) | Gabriel DeSantis: Penn Abroad Leader(11/03/20) | The Role of Data in a World Reshaped by COVID-19(11/02/20) | ‘Moral Code’(10/29/20) | Nader Engheta Awarded Isaac Newton Medal and Prize(10/21/20) | ‘Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom’(10/19/20) | In Memoriam: Noah Prywes, 1925-2020(10/16/20) | Deep Jariwala Wins Frontiers of Materials Award(10/16/20) | Ritesh Agarwal Elected Fellow of the Optical Society(10/07/20) | NPR: Duncan Watts on Facebook’s Political Bias(10/05/20) | In Memoriam: David Geselowitz, 1930-2020(10/01/20) | César de la Fuente on AIChE’s ’35 Under 35′ List(09/30/20) | From an Old Toy to a New Mechanism of Flight(09/28/20) | Obstacles and Growth(09/14/20) | Virtually Interning at a Singaporean Startup(08/31/20) | More on Marc Miskin’s Microscopic Robots(08/31/20) | Ani Hsieh Named Deputy Director of GRASP Lab(08/27/20) | More on Marc Miskin’s Microscopic Robots(07/23/20) | Pennovation Accelerator Moves Online(07/21/20) | Plato was right. Earth is Made, on Average, of Cubes(07/06/20) | Penn Engineering’s ‘Summer Reading’ Project(07/01/20) | Rakesh Vohra Wins SIGecom Test of Time Award(06/23/20) | Beth Winkelstein Appointed Deputy Provost at Penn(06/17/20) | Can Contact Tracing Stop the Spread of COVID-19?(06/15/20) | Research Returns to Campus(06/05/20) | Correct Code(05/29/20) | Faster Together(05/29/20) | Lyle Ungar on Normalizing Face Masks(05/21/20) | Using Stress to Shape Microlevel Structures(05/20/20) | Duncan Watts Awarded 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship(05/11/20) | To Err is Human, to Learn, Divine(05/08/20) | En Garde!(04/29/20) | A Message from Dean Vijay Kumar(04/29/20) | David Meaney on Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis(04/09/20) | Danielle Bassett Named AIMBE Fellow(04/01/20) | Junior Shreya Parchure Named Goldwater Scholar(03/27/20) | Penn Engineering 2020 Teaching Awards(03/27/20) | A Message from Dean Vijay Kumar(02/19/20) | Scrap-Metal-Powered Lights win Y-Prize 2020(02/19/20) | Senior Zachary Whitlock Named Thouron Scholar(02/13/20) | Liang Feng Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow(02/06/20) | Looking to Mud to Study How Particles Become Sticky(01/17/20) | Evan and the Chocolate Factory(01/17/20) | Monroe Kennedy: Robotics for the Greater Good(01/16/20) | Kathie Jin Races Towards the Future2019
(12/17/19) | James Pikul Receives 2020 NSF CAREER Award(12/10/19) | In Memoriam: Joseph Bordogna, 1933-2019(12/06/19) | Sampath Kannan Named 2019 AAAS Fellow(12/04/19) | Impacting Human Health(11/25/19) | Inspiring Young Women in STEM(11/21/19) | When Curiosity Meets Nano Device Fabrication(11/18/19) | Danielle Bassett Receives New Scholarly Chair(11/05/19) | The Ethical Algorithm(11/05/19) | Robots to the Rescue(10/21/19) | Penn Engineering Announces a New Scholarly Chair(10/16/19) | The Perfect Storm(10/16/19) | From the Classroom to the Lab and Back Again(10/08/19) | Rebound Liberia Kicks Into a New Phase(10/01/19) | The Human Driver(10/01/19) | A ‘Quantum Leap’ for Quantum Information Science(09/23/19) | The Brain in the Machine(09/18/19) | George Pappas Elected IFAC Fellow(09/10/19) | Deepfake Detector Wins PennApps XX(09/09/19) | Penn Engineering and the ‘Jobs of the Future’(09/06/19) | ‘Is Data Privacy Real? Don’t Bet on It’(09/04/19) | Making Waves with a Hammer and a 3D Printer(08/27/19) | Solving Complex Problems with Purpose(08/26/19) | Coding with Kids(08/22/19) | Dragon boating, on the world stage(08/08/19) | Students Engineer Rehabilitation Robots in Jamaica(08/02/19) | In Memoriam: William L. Conger (ChE PhD ’65)(07/30/19) | Penn Students Crowdsource Art for Class Project(07/24/19) | Six Penn Engineers Receive Tenure(07/17/19) | César de la Fuente on 35 Innovators Under 35 List(06/26/19) | Shu Yang: Snail Superglue and Spider-Man(06/19/19) | GRASP Lab Profile: Monroe Kennedy III(06/12/19) | Student Spotlight with Connor Sendel(05/16/19) | A new way to fly, built up from the nanoscale(05/01/19) | Robert Carpick Named ASME Fellow(05/01/19) | Amish Patel Wins Van Ness Award(04/24/19) | Building literacy and leadership through basketball(04/17/19) | Organs-on-a-chip hurtle toward the final frontier(04/16/19) | Danielle Bassett Profiled in Science Magazine(04/10/19) | Igor Bargatin Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award(04/04/19) | Cynthia Sung Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award(03/22/19) | Penn Engineering 2020 Teaching Awards(03/21/19) | Vivek Shenoy Receives Heilmeier Research Award(03/18/19) | Daeyeon Lee Named 2019 Penn Fellow(03/06/19) | Translating the World’s Languages(02/22/19) | Liang Feng Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award(02/13/19) | Rise of Robogami: The Democratization of Robots(01/30/19) | Infection-resistant Catheter Plan Wins Y-Prize(01/28/19) | MCIT Online: Expanding Access to Computer Science(01/18/19) | Senior design team wins the 2018 FAA RAISE award(01/17/19) | Michael Mitchell Receives BMES Rising Star Award2018
(12/17/18) | Engineering with Kirigami(12/11/18) | Medical Technologies to Solve the Opioid Crisis(12/11/18) | Ethically Financing Proton Therapy(12/05/18) | Senior Johnathan Chen Awarded Schwarzman Scholarship(11/19/18) | Three Penn Engineers Recognized as APS Fellows(11/16/18) | Nanowerk on Nanotribological Printing(10/29/18) | M&T Student Profiles: Quinn Wu(10/09/18) | Chinedum Osjui Named APS Fellow(10/09/18) | Vivek Shenoy and the Power of Penn(10/05/18) | Alexa Spagnola: Making Connections at the ITBA Lab(10/04/18) | Liang Feng Elected Fellow of the Optical Society(10/02/18) | Shu Yang Elected an American Physical Society Fellow(09/25/18) | Reducing Complexity to Increase Security(09/19/18) | Kimberly Ogden (CBE’86) Named President of AIChE(09/18/18) | Automatic Dubbing App Wins PennApps XVIII(09/14/18) | Danielle Bassett on the Complexity of Biology(09/11/18) | Powering the Future with Giant Clams(09/11/18) | Summer Studies In Session At Penn Engineering’s ESAP(08/21/18) | Mapping the Ocean With Marine Robots(07/26/18) | More on Penn Engineering’s New MCIT Online Program(06/28/18) | Hack4Impact: A Global Coding Force for Good(06/22/18) | Ting Yue Receives ECOS Best Paper Award(06/21/18) | Engineering Enterprise: A Three-Pack Of Startups(06/21/18) | CBE Welcomes Professor Chinedum Osuji(06/20/18) | Siqi Sun: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni(06/19/18) | Danielle Bassett Wins Erdős-Rényi Prize(06/14/18) | Kathleen Stebe Wins 2018 Langmuir Lectureship Award(05/31/18) | Fred Warren: Investing in the Promise of Innovation(05/22/18) | A Virtual World for an Ancient Society(05/21/18) | Science and Politics: A Q&A with Molly Sheehan(05/17/18) | Q&A with Nader Engheta in Optics & Photonics News(05/17/18) | An Innovative Approach to Better Energy Storage(05/11/18) | Computer Networks that Help People Stay Sober(05/09/18) | Earthquakes at the Nanoscale(05/02/18) | Penn Engineering Announces Four New Scholarly Chairs(04/20/18) | Calculus III for Cells(04/19/18) | Tackling Blindness with Nanotechnology(04/19/18) | Commemorating the Career of Portonovo Ayyaswamy(04/19/18) | Anne Cocos Receives Google Ph.D. Fellowship(04/18/18) | Penn Engineering 2018 Teaching Awards(04/17/18) | Charles Yang Named Guggenheim Fellow(04/16/18) | Taking Penn Engineering Technology to Market(04/10/18) | Q&A with Reeham Sedky(04/09/18) | Daily Pennsylvanian: New Course on Computer Ethics(04/06/18) | 2018 Engineering Commencement Speakers(03/26/18) | Ani Hsieh’s Robot Teams are Exploring New Frontiers(03/16/18) | Penn-developed Robots Cameo on The Daily Show(03/13/18) | Penn to Hold Teach-In March 18–22(03/09/18) | Uncovering Shoddy Science(03/05/18) | Matt Blaze: A New Model of Voting Threats(03/02/18) | Building futures through LEGOs(03/01/18) | Self-Reflected: Bringing the Conscious Brain to Life(02/27/18) | Mayur Naik: Building Better Software(02/26/18) | Penn Engineers Present New ‘Eye-on-a-Chip’(02/23/18) | Looking for Patterns in the Folded Genome(02/20/18) | Living in a Material World(02/15/18) | Cellview Sciences Wins Y-Prize 2018(02/13/18) | GRASP’s VIO-Swarm Flies on its Own(02/05/18) | Inventing the Interconnected Future(02/02/18) | How the Brain’s Control Over Itself Emerges(01/29/18) | Nanoscale Drug Delivery for Hard-to-heal Tissues(01/24/18) | Nadia Krook: Building Opportunities for the Future(01/23/18) | Object-Seeking Robot Wins PennApps XVII(01/19/18) | Jason Burdick Receives Heilmeier Research Award(01/17/18) | Adding a Twist Makes 3D-Printed Structures Tougher(01/09/18) | Network Neuroscience, Explained Via Twister2017
(12/15/17) | MEAM Alumni Receive Prestigious Research Honors(12/14/17) | Navigating medical device development at every stage(12/11/17) | Insup Lee Named ACM Fellow(12/05/17) | Lou Soslowsky Wins the ASME Lissner Medal(12/04/17) | Louis J. Soslowsky Receives H.R. Lissner Medal(12/04/17) | Engineers As Artists(11/17/17) | Peter Reilly (ChE PhD’64) Passes Away at 78(09/08/17) | Dave Meaney Elected To BMES Class of 2017 Fellows(09/01/17) | These small robots are inspired by origami(07/05/17) | Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’(06/21/17) | Shu Yang Elected Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow(05/15/17) | Nine BE Students Receive NSF Research Fellowships(04/18/17) | Penn Engineering 2017 Teaching Awards(03/27/17) | Four Penn Engineers Receive 2017 NSF CAREER Awards(03/14/17) | Aaron Roth Named Class of 1940 Professor(02/21/17) | Amish Patel Receives 2017 Sloan Fellowship(02/03/17) | Robert Carpick Named 2017 MRS Fellow(01/27/17) | Penn Senior Lucy Chai Awarded Churchill Scholarship(01/13/17) | Karen Winey: At the Helm of Materials Science(01/09/17) | Michael E. Hanyak, Jr. ChE’762016
2015
(10/31/15) | Alexander George Receives AIChE Scholarship Award(09/01/15) | Miniature Devices, Life-Size Impact(06/09/15) | Dan Huh: Engineering human organs onto a microchip(05/22/15) | MEAM Advanced Manufacturing Workshop(03/26/15) | MEAM Undergraduate Women’s Dinner2014
(05/30/14) | BE Seniors Take on the Flu to Win Design Competition(05/24/14) | Abraham Noordergraaf, Professor Emeritus(05/01/14) | Nicholas Schneider Receives MSA Award(05/01/14) | Ashlee Anderson Receives 2014 Ruhr Fellowship(04/01/14) | Pedro Ponte Castañeda Elected ASME Fellow(03/15/14) | Mitchell Litt, Professor Emeritus2013
(11/20/13) | In Memoriam: Ben Taskar, 1977-2013(07/20/13) | Joseph Cramer, CHE ’66, GR’71(02/28/13) | Penn Engineering Learns a Few New Tricks(01/01/13) | Daeyeon Lee Receives 3M Nontenured Faculty Award2012
(12/01/12) | Igor Bargatin Joins Penn Engineering Faculty(09/01/12) | An Applied Learning Experience in Africa(09/01/12) | Improving Disease Detection in Clinical Settings(09/01/12) | Laser-like Focus on Nanotech Design(07/01/12) | Brian Chow Joins Bioengineering Faculty(07/01/12) | Cultivating the next generation of women engineers(03/01/12) | Vijay Kumar: Robots That Fly… and Cooperate(03/01/12) | Shu Yang Receives PMSE Arthur K. Doolittle Award2011
(07/01/11) | New Faculty: Christopher Fang-Yen2010
(11/17/10) | Cracking the code inside a worm’s brain(10/07/10) | Teaching Discovery Through Smart Experimentation(06/15/10) | In Memoriam: Alumnus Jeremy G. Chan(06/01/10) | Two Approaches to Tissue Engineering Converge(06/01/10) | Building Better Building Blocks(06/01/10) | Understanding Cancer(06/01/10) | Translational Research(05/16/10) | Red & Blue Racing takes 15th out of 120(05/15/10) | Team McGill: Penn Engineering’s Triple Play(04/23/10) | Building a 1965 Shelby Cobra(02/14/10) | Turning Light into Electrical Current2009
(11/13/09) | Haptics at Penn: A Class of Touch(03/06/09) | Studying Animals to Build a Better Robot(02/19/09) | Pieces of Penn History Return from Space2008
(07/25/08) | Producing Nanoscale Patterns, In One Step
Narrow Your Results:
News Contact:
Holly Wojcik
Director of Media Relations
Office of the Dean, Penn Engineering
1B Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6391
Phone: 215-573-4607
Email: hwojcik@seas.upenn.edu