Linguistic Red Flags from Facebook Posts Can Predict Future Depression Diagnoses
Research from the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health and the World Well-Being Project marries social media data with medical-outcomes data for the first time.
Penn Engineering Groups Awarded NSF Grants to Work Toward ‘Quantum Leap’
One group will design robust, integrated quantum memory devices based on defects in diamond, and the other group will develop materials to encode and decode quantum information in single photons. These technologies will be part of the safest and most secure information network ever seen.
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.
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.
New Microscopes Will Allow Researchers to See Small and Think Big
Two high-resolution microscopes will allow researchers to study and test materials at the atomic level with unprecedented precision.
Powering the Future with Giant Clams
In 2014, Shu Yang, of the Materials Science and Engineering, joined School of Arts and Sciences’ biophysicist Alison Sweeney on an unusual quest. Backed by a NSF INSPIRE grant for bold, interdisciplinary research, the duo aimed to unlock the solar-powered secrets of the giant clam. Now, Sweeney and Yang are combining their knowledge of how […]
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 […]
Social Networks, Political Polarization and Climate Change
Damon Centola, associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Penn Engineering, uses formal and computational models of social networks to study collective human dynamics. As the Director of the Network Dynamics Group and a member of the Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences, he uses online experiments to study how changes to […]
Penn Researchers Discover that Class of Neurological Disorders Share Common 3D Genome Folding Pattern
In a study led by Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, researchers have found another common thread linking nearly all of the TNR expansion diseases: the complicated 3D patterns that the DNA is folded into in order to fit in the nucleus of the cell.