In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The assistant professor in bioengineering and in cell and developmental biology, is among the Penn Engineering faculty members who have received the CAREER Award this year. Hughes plans to use the funds to develop a human kidney model to better understand how the development of cells and tissues influences congenital diseases of the kidney and urinary tract.
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Joseph Francisco, President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS). Election to APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.
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The William K. Gemmill Term Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, received the award for interdisciplinary research spanning mechanical engineering, statistical physics and machine learning, and will fund Reina’s research and multiple associated outreach initiatives designed to increase gender, racial and socioeconomic diversity in STEM.
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The Stephenson Term Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, which is given to early-career faculty researchers who demonstrate the potential to be role models for research and education and are committed to outreach and public engagement.
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The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy’s annual Carnot Prize goes to Sheila Oparaocha, an international coordinator and program manager at ENERGIA, an international network focused on promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, and sustainable energy access.
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Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor Sebastian Angel is the latest in a line of educators to be granted funding through the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program. Angel and his team received roughly $125k received to date to continue research on their project “Tools for building online services that hide metadata“.
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The assistant professor in electrical and systems engineering is one of Penn Engineering’s most recent recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, given to early-career faculty researchers who demonstrate the potential to be role models for research and education and are committed to outreach and public engagement.
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The Center for Soft and Living Matter will be a joint endeavor between the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, led by director Andrea J. Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics, and associate director Douglas J. Durian, professor of physics.
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The Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials course went online during the Fall 2020 semester, successfully providing real-world engineering examples, such as bridge collapses or construction crane failures, to help students understand why a given material has broken.
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The assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics’ prize comes from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering for his work on machine learning using Gaussian processes and neural networks.
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