Reducing Complexity to Increase Security
In collaboration with Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford, Penn Engineers Receive $7.5M Office of Naval Research Grant on software complexity reduction.
Summer Networking Event at PWCC Connects Chinese Students and Alumni
Chinese students and Penn alumni gathered in downtown Beijing at Penn Wharton China Center for a summer networking event on August 1. More than 75 students and alumni who graduated between 1995 to 2018 got together for a night of learning and sharing. Attendees mingled with former school mates, future business partners, current undergraduate and postgraduate students, […]
Teachers Become Students to Become Better Teachers at GRASP Lab’s RET Program
“This lab is bananas,” said Chantelle Smith. “Most days I need headphones just to be able to focus on my work.” She articulated this over the sound of toys rolling across the floor, robots singing and dancing, and students chattering about their latest discoveries in the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. […]
Automatic Dubbing App Wins PennApps XVIII
Last weekend, more than a thousand student hackers arrived at Penn Engineering for the eighteenth iteration of PennApps, the original student-run collegiate hackathon. Over the course of two days, they were tasked with forming teams and making the best software or hardware applications they could devise, with more than $80,000 in prizes on the line.
Engineering Faculty Join New Center for Sub-Cellular Genomics
Established with a five-year, $10.5 million grant from the NIH, Penn’s new Center for Sub-Cellular Genomics aims to bring together experts in genomics, neurosurgery, neuroscience, nanotechnology, informatics, and mass spectrometry to investigate biological mechanisms on the level of individual neurons.
Danielle Bassett on the Complexity of Biology
Last week, Dublin’s Trinity College hosted a conference called “Schrödinger at 75 — The Future of Biology,” in honor of the physicist’s series of influential public lectures that jump-started a revolution in molecular biology. On the 75th anniversary of those lectures, Trinity invited researchers from the world over to discuss the newest questions that have arisen in […]
Summer Studies In Session At Penn Engineering’s ESAP
Every summer, for just three weeks, Penn Engineering transforms from a quiet research hub into a buzzing pre-college campus. Here, qualifying high school students in the Engineering Summer Academy at Penn(ESAP) have the opportunity to take an intensive summer engineering course for college credit. The Penn program graduated 221 students this year, and each will go […]
Claire Donovan and Adele Li: PennApps and ‘Conscious Hacking’
For the last three years, Claire Donovan and Adele Li have worked in the logistics and outreach committees at PennApps, the University of Pennsylvania’s first-of-its-kind collegiate hackathon, rising to the executive board, and now both serve as directors of the organization. This eighteenth iteration of PennApps marks the first in which two women have sat […]
New GRASP Project Aims to Leverage ‘Embodied Intelligence’ via a Robotic Squirrel
It takes about a year before human infants master their own motor skills well enough to walk. Legged robots don’t have it so easy. Only the most advanced can walk with a smooth, natural gait, and even those can be stymied by a small pile of rubble or sand. A team of researchers, led from […]
Using Statistics to Uncover the Truth About Individual Cells
Researchers at Penn have developed a better method for interpreting data from single-cell RNA sequencing technologies. This research is built on a collaboration between The Wharton School, Mingyao Li at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Arjun Raj’s group at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.