School of Engineering & Applied Science

Investigators at a new University of Pennsylvania research center will focus on key physical principles that underpin cancer’s development and growth.

Evan Lerner ・July 1, 2015

Penn Electric Racing has taken home top honors at an international competition.

Evan Lerner ・June 25, 2015

Social networks affect every aspect of our lives, from the jobs we get and the technologies we adopt to the partners we choose and the healthiness of our lifestyles. But where do they come from? 

Katherine Unger Baillie ・June 22, 2015

Picking things up and putting them down is a mainstay of any kind of manufacturing, but fingers, human or robotic, are not always best for the task at hand.    

Evan Lerner ・June 15, 2015

The University of Pennsylvania today announced a partnership with leading nonprofit online learning platform edX, expanding the University’s open learning course offerings to reach millions of additional learners worldwide.

Amanda Mott ・June 15, 2015

By Madeleine Stone  @themadstone In any textbook diagram, a group of red blood cells, skin cells or nerve cells will typically be identical in size. But, just as no two people are quite the same height and weight, in a population of real cells there are larger and smaller individuals.

Evan Lerner ・June 10, 2015

Evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould is famous for describing the evolution of humans and other conscious beings as a chance accident of history. If we could go back millions of years and “run the tape of life again,” he mused, evolution would follow a different path. 

Katherine Unger Baillie ・June 8, 2015

Crystalline materials have atoms that are neatly lined up in a repeating pattern. When they break, that failure tends to start at a defect, or a place where the pattern is disrupted. But how do defect-free materials break?

Evan Lerner ・June 2, 2015

The senior design classes held in each of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s six departments are an opportunity for University of Pennsylvania students to put their skills to the test, by picking a real-world problem and developing a new piece of technology to solve it.

Evan Lerner ・May 27, 2015